Sep. 21, 2007 - Planners, planners, planners...
I am just so pleased with my new Mom's Mini-Planner. I have tried for years to find the perfect planner. I have carried around some really large padded binders down to some Dollar Tree calendars, trying to find the right fit. But, to no avail. They are either too big and bulky, with too many extras I don't want or use, or they are simply too small to contain the things I do want.
After much trial and error, the Lord placed in my mind the idea to create a Mom's Mini-Planner. It uses index cards and an index card binder. How simple is that? There are cards for each day of each month, which are "reusable", as in you can reprint them year after year. There are also cards that have a calendar I can print out for each month. This way I can see a month at a glance, and I am able to know what day of the week a certain day falls. There are also Month at a Glance pages, which have lines for each day of each month. These can be used to keep track of upcoming events, if I haven't printed out that month's daily cards. These can also be used as a "special days" section to keep track of birthdays and anniversaries.
There are several other cards, but to create the basic planner, I printed off a few months worth of daily cards, as well as the calendar pages for all the months, and the Month at a Glance pages. This way I will have access to a year calendar, but won't have the bulk of keeping each individual day in the binder.
I have just been so happy with it! The daily pages are not only help me keep track of my schedule, but it has also helped me keep track of my thoughts. If I don't have something written down, more than likely, I will forget it. So this planner has really helped me organize all aspects of my life.
You can create your own with index cards. Or you can check out my website and grab your own copy for a price that is so low, you won't want to take the time to create your own. :O) http://www.homeschoolwithindexcards.com/Planner.html
