Plan with Me….

If you have been following me on Facebook, you know that Sunday is planning day.  Since I become a mother, I started looking for a planner to keep track of school and extracurricular activities, however locally could only find daily diaries, which mostly ran from January to December.  Occasionally I would find one that was for the academic year but was limited.  I could have bought one online, however wanted something with local holidays…….so I decided to designed my own.

But how do I go about planning my week?  I start off by writing down the recurring activities and then any ad hoc activities which relate to the children.  I continue with weekly regular chores I do, namely laundry and grocery shopping.  I work outside the home, so cleaning happens a little bit at a time or sometimes at one go during the weekend.  However, I do intend to establish a cleaning routine and write it in my planner – to check off as I go along.

As far as meal planning is concerned, I normally plan for a whole month, and list the meal plan for each week.  Things can come up and therefore the meal plan changes accordingly.

Planning should be fun – so I like to decorate my planner as I go along by using washi tape, stickers or else draw something myself.

With technology one can easily use a digital calendar to keep track of activities however I believe it is a matter of preference.  Personally I prefer writing things on a planner.

Love

Strugglingmum