For a couple of weeks now, I have been, and I am really, really happy about it. No, I'm not talking about being Neighbor Nosy, though I'm always happy to be so if you volunteer to tell me your life story, but about this cool book. I won it through a random drawing from Kristen Chase over at The Mom Trap (thanks, Kristen!). She had described it and I decided I had to have one. If I hadn't won it from her I would have bought my own, and now that I have one and have been using it for a bit, I intend to give it to a bunch of Mom friends as gifts.
The big appeal to me? The columns for up to 5 family members showing a week at a time. This way I can keep track of everyone and not lose anybody, or at least forget to pick them up. I can't imagine that - BigDaddyFish says his family used to forget who was picking who up all the time when he was a kid, and that numerous times he was left standing places for HOURS waiting for them to come get him. I would flog myself if I ever forgot one of my kids, but at the rate I'm going, it could happen (I forgot to pay the homeowner's association dues this month, and I've never forgotten to pay a bill in my life), so hopefully this book will help me keep from doing that. It also means I can see everyone's activities for each week, which will help me keep from overscheduling everyone so much so that I don't have a schedule for myself because I'm too busy being a taxi mom.
If you don't happen to have kids, you can use it to organize 5 different subjects at school, or 5 different hobbies or personal goals, or 5 different projects for work, or anything else you have 5 of (blogs?). It has space for phone numbers and a special events calendar, so I don't forget the birthdays of the multiplying family, and it has TEAR OUT to do lists, which I like to use as grocery lists. And lots of notes pages. I like to write down directions to friends/relatives houses because my memory for directions, and overall sense of direction, leaves much to be desired - at one apartment that BDF and I lived in it took me probably 3 months to really feel secure I knew how to get back and forth to work every day.
So, obviously, I like this book. I think it is a great tool - and nobody paid me to say that or compensated me in any way, so this is an unbiased opinion. Check it out if you would lose your head if it wasn't firmly attached, like me. It'll help you keep track of it.
Comments