I’m one of those people who relies heavily on a calendar. A write everything down, double check it to make sure we don’t have a conflict calendar. Because then I don’t feel like I have to remember every little detail of our lives, because I have the calendar! It frees up space in my brain for….other things. I actually have a cool Busy Body Book Calendar with 5 columns to categorize everyone’s stuff, and it’s been quite helpful to manage our busy schedules.
And here’s my tip: When scheduling a play date or appointment for your child, write the phone number down when you write down the appointment. For example, just this morning, Jenna’s little friend Hayley called and asked if she could play today after school. Today doesn’t work, but we settled on tomorrow, and Jenna will go home with her and play. As soon as I hung up the phone, I checked the caller ID and got Haley’s phone number and wrote it on the calendar with the info. So, tomorrow when it’s time to pick her up, I already have the phone number right there, and I don’t have to go searching through phone lists or caller id to find it. Pretty smart, right? Thank you, Thank you. I’ll be here all week!
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I enjoy a good calendar. I am currently liking the google (free) calendar. I have sub-calendars for each member in the family in different colors. And the school district, middle school, high school, and marching band all have google calendars that I can add to my own and not have to re-type everything. I just print out a 4-week version every Sunday night. The phone number tip is a good one — I’ll try to remember that.
Excellent tip! I finally started doing that with my hair salon appts – I was forever having to look up the number to change the date of my appt. & then got that ah-ha moment and wrote the number on the calendar. Its amazing the little things that make our days so much easier!
Have A Great Day!
Kristin
Thanks for the tips. But, unfortunately, the book is out of stock at Amazon which is too bad because I have 2 things I want to order from them and needed one more thing to get my free shipping. I’ll have to find something else.
I’ve come to rely on my calendar too – and I’m trying to make use of the one on my new cell phone. I do the writing numbers down too (when I remember) – it’s such a good idea!