When I was looking around and starting my own home management notebook, I looked at ALOT of binders online. I looked through a zillion (yup that's a number!) printables and finally picked out what was right for us. I still look for new inspiration and my binder is continually changing to fit our current needs.
I thought that I'd share some of my favorite binders that I found and some of the printable websites that I found helpful!
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
Home Management Binder ~ part three
It's time to talk about the last sections in my home management binder. These sections are my contacts, blogging, our new house, and a rotating section.
My contacts tab hasn't been used much yet. I'd like to get it all filled out soon In this sections I have a few printables that will eventually list our family doctors, emergency contacts, and other important contacts. We're in the process of choosing doctors so once we get those chosen, I'll begin to add their numbers and contact information. I have a general contacts page but since everyone is programmed into my email or my phone I haven't really started that either. I'm hoping to start adding names and addresses so I can send out Christmas cards this year.
The blogging tab is one that I try to use every day or at least every other day. I have a few pages for each of the different categories of posts I write. On these pages I list any ideas that I come up with so that I never run out of stuff to write to ya'll about! I also have a weekly planning page. At first, this page was a bunch of pages that I had to print each week. I've tweaked the page since then and decided to print it on card stock, put it in a page protector and make it dry erasable. Now I don't have to kill as many trees! :)
My contacts tab hasn't been used much yet. I'd like to get it all filled out soon In this sections I have a few printables that will eventually list our family doctors, emergency contacts, and other important contacts. We're in the process of choosing doctors so once we get those chosen, I'll begin to add their numbers and contact information. I have a general contacts page but since everyone is programmed into my email or my phone I haven't really started that either. I'm hoping to start adding names and addresses so I can send out Christmas cards this year.
The blogging tab is one that I try to use every day or at least every other day. I have a few pages for each of the different categories of posts I write. On these pages I list any ideas that I come up with so that I never run out of stuff to write to ya'll about! I also have a weekly planning page. At first, this page was a bunch of pages that I had to print each week. I've tweaked the page since then and decided to print it on card stock, put it in a page protector and make it dry erasable. Now I don't have to kill as many trees! :)
Friday, May 18, 2012
Home Management Binder (Part 2)
So, after a long wait.... and now that you have most of your materials, let's start on a few of the sections of your binder! Here are four sections that I'd like to focus on today. Of course, you don't have to include these sections, and you can come up with your own, but I'll share mine for now!
Today's sections are:
Calendars
Menu
Cleaning
Finances
The calendar section of my notebook doesn't have a divider. First I have my day at a glance pages. I made my own pages, printed them on card stock, and placed them in sheet protectors. This makes the pages dry erase safe and I don't have to waste paper every week. I use permanent marker so that it doesn't rub off. *Quick Tip: you can erase permanent marker by coloring over it with a dry erase marker than erasing as normal (definitely comes in handy as a teacher!)*
Behind my day at a glance pages, I include a monthly calendar. This could be a dry erase standard blank calendar, but I like these pretty calendars and so I printed them for each month!
Following the calendars I have any schedules such as Keeton's baseball schedule for reference.
Today's sections are:
Calendars
Menu
Cleaning
Finances
The calendar section of my notebook doesn't have a divider. First I have my day at a glance pages. I made my own pages, printed them on card stock, and placed them in sheet protectors. This makes the pages dry erase safe and I don't have to waste paper every week. I use permanent marker so that it doesn't rub off. *Quick Tip: you can erase permanent marker by coloring over it with a dry erase marker than erasing as normal (definitely comes in handy as a teacher!)*Behind my day at a glance pages, I include a monthly calendar. This could be a dry erase standard blank calendar, but I like these pretty calendars and so I printed them for each month!
Following the calendars I have any schedules such as Keeton's baseball schedule for reference.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Chocolate (Wasted, Dump, or Suicide) Cake
So, in honor of Mother's Day, I'm going to share an awesome dessert that I made for my mother yesterday!
WARNING! You will need ice cream or milk or something because this cake is SO rich!
This cake has been called many things, as I'm sure you can tell from the title. I always heard dump cake, Keeton calls it suicide cake, and the recipe that I followed was called wasted cake! No matter what you call it, it's an amazing cake that you can make a hundred times and make it differently each time.
WARNING! You will need ice cream or milk or something because this cake is SO rich!
This cake has been called many things, as I'm sure you can tell from the title. I always heard dump cake, Keeton calls it suicide cake, and the recipe that I followed was called wasted cake! No matter what you call it, it's an amazing cake that you can make a hundred times and make it differently each time.
Happy Mother's Day!!!
Today we celebrate one of the most important people in our lives and everything she has done for us!
I have to say (and no I am not biased :) ) I have the best mother in the whole wide world! It's funny how growing up over the years, I always said how awful my life was and that I had the meanest mother in the world. As I get older, I realize how wrong I was. My mother means the world to me. No, we don't always get along, but she's usually right (mom if you're reading this don't laugh!). I have learned so much from her and I see how although she was the meanest mom in the world, it's only because she loves me and wanted the best for me. She was teaching me how to live in the real world. The funniest part is that now I'm married and there are many times that my husband will look at me and say, "You know, you sound just like your mom" :) What a great compliment.
So mom, thank you for everything you've done for me and continue to do each day! I know that when I'm sick or upset I will always have someone to cry to and when I'm having a great day, there is someone to share that joy with!
Love you mom!!!!
And to all you other great mothers out there today, Happy Mother's Day!
Jennifer
Monday, May 7, 2012
Home Management Binder - Part One
I should have gotten this post up this weekend. Sorry! No excuses, it's going up now and I'll try to get extra bonus posts up this week to make up for it. This is a quick and easy project for today. We're going to start our project for this month, our Home Management Binder.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Make your jewelry sparkle and shine...
With your own homemade jewelry cleaner!
It's Quick Tip Tuesday ya'll and for today's quick tip, I'm sharing a jewelry cleaner that I made last weekend that makes your jewelry sparkle like new!
Take a bowl, add a piece of foil to the bottom of the bowl.
Heat 1 cup of water in the microwave for 2 minutes.
It's Quick Tip Tuesday ya'll and for today's quick tip, I'm sharing a jewelry cleaner that I made last weekend that makes your jewelry sparkle like new!
Take a bowl, add a piece of foil to the bottom of the bowl.
Heat 1 cup of water in the microwave for 2 minutes.
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