I am so excited about this post.
I’m most certain I am more excited about it than you will be, but I’m telling you anyway because I told Jarrod and all I got was that raise-your-eyebrows-real-high-closed-lip-smile thing. Do you know what I’m talking about? Ok, well that’s what I got so I’m hoping for more from you guys because I know you can appreciate a little organization right??
Two Mondays ago I was feeling draggy…unmotivated-like. My family is coming the third week in May and my brain was all funked as to what I should do with my growing to-do list with school and obligations and how I was going to get it all done and how it’s so hard to get back in the swing of school after a big visit like that.
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I need action plans. So I made a six-week plan for school. I just wrote out everything I wanted to get done this school year and packed it in to 6 weeks.
So I took the whole “plan out your last 6 weeks of school thing” and multiplied it times a billion or so. All last week I organized my planner, lesson plan book, papers, calendars, menus and more. For the next six weeks, I. will. have. a. plan.

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We have just finished week one of the 6-week plan.
And can I just say….we totally rocked week one!
One of the things I did was reorganize my planner. I love my planner. I talked about it back here. The thing was though, it was getting all beat up and it was unorganized with random papers shoved in it. Martha Stewart helped me spiff up my planner. (thanks, girl.)
Here’s the break down of how the masta-planna is looking now.
My 6 Week Master Planner
List Section: Target, Groceries, Library, Liquor Store…ha! Just kidding (I think)
You must have been reading my mind back in 2012 because this is what I need right now! I love seeing how way more organized people than me plan so I can copy their ideas!;) thanks for sharing and for picking your brain for me!!!
I just started following you on Instagram and now am hooked on your blog. You must have been reading my mind way back in 2012 because this is exactly what I need right now to get ready for the school year! I love to see how other people plan who are way more organized than me and steal their ideas, thanks so much! You are awesome!
Just wanted to say you have inspired me! I saw this post and knew it was exactly what I needed to get re-motivated. Thank you for sharing!
This post makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. ๐
I'm blog stalking you. Rereading you master plan. I'm thinking maybe I need to hire you to organize my life. Maybe I need a plan to get out of my dreadful funk;) OR maybe all my lists put me in my funk to begin with…
can I just say … I LOVE this post … I am SO doing this. It is exactly what I need to keep us going and to finish out our year strong. thank you thank you thank you! =)
Wow!
Don't EVER
lose that book!!!
I want to be this
organized : )
Thanks for the
inspiration!
xx Suzanne
I really love this and if I wasn't having a baby in 3, I'd so be jumping on this bandwagon…..
Wow, I am so impressed! ๐ I live by a list, but I need to better organize my time during the week. I have tried to go paperless and use my iPad, but I do not think it is working for me. I might refer back to your blog…I might need a binder!
xo,
RJ
LOVE IT! I must know where you got the lesson plan calendar book thing. I've been looking for one just like that.
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Really like your blog!
A wonderful post!
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You're so on top of it! I'm SO inspired! I think I might go do the same now! Thanks for sharing!
Strong work, dearest.
Love it – I have been slowly building a binder of things and you have given me some great ideas to make things flow a bit better… and to make it pretty!
Bless your beautiful heart for giving us all the details! You know we were all drooling to know what was in that super duper organized binder…so THANK YOU for sharing. you are awfully, awfully sweet. ๐
Girl, you are one of the only friends I have left who still writes things on real paper with a real pen. I am right (write…ha) there with you. I neeeed to see my own handwriting in ink.
I've been thinking about how I want to have a better schedule with my days. My kids are at a flexible age and I need to take advantage of that better.
Loved talking with you this week. Let's add that to the calendar too… creative brainstorming sessions!
I am all about some good organization!
My plan this weekend is to "organize something" so that I can link up next week!
Be Blessed and Happy Easter!
oh how I love this. I love lists. I love being orgnanized. I love it when those two go together.
we are headed on a big grad trip at the end of may for more than a month (!?!?!?!?!), so I have a list of "63 things to do before graduation." it's split into 'house,' 'grad party,' 'blog,' 'sew/create,' and 'trip.' I am not making much progress (and if you do the math, I should be getting at least one project done a day), but I still love the list. ๐
WAY to go friend! love it!
Martha would be so proud. Great job! Have a great Friday!
Amazing! That is all.
you and robin are so darn cute! ๐
you totally kick my butt in this.
like….you are 1000 ft ahead of me in the marathon kicking.my.butt.!!!
can you host a workshop and teach me all of this? skype, perhaps? heehee!
i LOVE that meal planner and am going to use it!
i absolutely HAVE to start budgeting for food better because food is soooooo expensive!
great job!
xo
Thanks for being my go to gal when I need some help getting focused..you've been there a gazzilion times for me. If we were on the school playground I might just have to say to you, "I like my binder better than your's!" but that would be mean and untrue because you have pretty colored tabs. And since we are not mean school girls anymore but pilgrims on a journey,I say, "Go girl! Yeah for all things focused and making them pretty." I love you with all my organized and planned out heart.
whoa. it overwhelms me thinking about writing all that out. you are amazing. and have now been crowned the Queen of Organization!!!
Great Job! I need to do this and love being organized (have to be to no feel overwhelmed, in fact) but when it comes to lists and "paper work" side of it, I never know where to start and how to do it.
A couple of questions…. exactly which binder do you have that fits in your purse (or do you just have a HUGE purse)? and I need tips on organizing lesson plans for different children in different grade levels. Right now we are finishing up kindergarten but soon enough I'll have a kindergartener and 1st grader. (future blog idea? hehe)
P.S. SOOOOOO excited to get my journal in the mail that I bought from you ๐ The design and colors of the fabric are so peaceful and relaxing looking.
1. You are adorable, I mean reeeeeally adorable.
2.I NEED one of those planners.
3. You motivated me in a big way this morning- thank you girl- needed that!
4. Loved our sweet chat yesterday.
5. Please know that I think you're amazing.
Just pinned this! Brilliant and SO motivating.
love the idea about making a summer plan! I am so doing this! Thanks for the idea….LOVE your blog!
I am doing this! I have been absent from my blog, overhelmed with my day job, etsy shop, family obligations, and few other tough things going on in our lives right now. I think and hope this will pull me out from under that cloud. Thank you friend! I enjoy your blog!