What does all of this look like at our house? The picture above is our “ Family Management Wall“. (With the exception of the shopping list which is an on-going thing). The other lists are printed weekly and planned out on Sunday nights. So just a recap of those printables….the first 2 I only print once every few months (daily chores and daily routine). I add anything we need to my shopping list and have my recipes right there in the kitchen thanks to the binder and this list. I’ve tried and even created several different menu planners for this over the years but then I finally realized…we need to plan out our snacks just as much as we need to plan out our suppers!Įach week I sit down on Sunday night and use my Favorite Meal Binder Method to plan out our meals for the week. So easy! I wish I’d done this a long time ago…Ī combination of living with allergies, sticking to a budget, and not living close to a grocery store means that menu planning is an absolute must. Before I head to the store I just cut off the list that I need so I don’t need to take the entire sheet with me. (For me, that’s one list for Azure or coop orders, one list for Costco, and one list for Walmart/Target). Now I keep this shopping list printable which is 3 shopping lists going at the same time for the places I generally shop. I used to keep a shopping list for everything but it always got tattered (or usually lost) as I took it from store to store. I don’t know about you but I do not shop at one single store. I love this chart because these are the things I tend to forget about! I also use it to pencil in things that I need to make ahead of time to coordinate with my meal plan. The Weekly Planner Template is something I print off each week and usually plan out on Sunday night before the week begins.įor us, the Weekly Planner Template contains the extra things that need to happen during the week like chores that don’t happen every day (dusting, washing towels, etc). But we still keep this daily routine for a reminder of what we normally do when we are at home on a typical day. Some days look a little different for us (like our day off). It’s just a sequence of events that happen in order during the day. Its also not a schedule of exactly what we will do (ie: I don’t plan what happens during playtime! □ ). I don’t assign times to things that we do during the day (ie: lunch is not strictly at noon). The boys love to know when it’s going to be lunchtime, when its bath time, or when they can expect to go to bed, all things that they can tell from what happens during our daily routine. Having a crazy and chaotic day happens once in a while, but we like to avoid it if at all possible. Because of their background, our children do not function well without a strong routine. The Daily Routine is another master list that we keep. Anything we do daily goes on this master list. Some of the things I have on this list are: Outside Chores (ie: feeding animals), washing dishes, filling up our Berkey water filter, making Kombucha, etc. It’s a visual reminder of what chores need to be completed each day and about what time of day they should be done by. This is a printable that we only print once a season (since our chores can change by the season). If the daily chores don’t get done, things don’t keep moving around our house. To get all of these printables for free, scroll all the way to the bottom of this blog post or add your email in the form right under this and I will send them to you! I’ll start with the 5 pages and why they are important. Our system consists of 5 different printable pages, a calendar, and another small whiteboard. It may not work for your family either but you won’t know until you give it a try! I’ve tried various schedules, chore charts, lists….none of it worked for us and our family dynamic so that’s why we ended up creating our own hodgepodge calendar. Today I’m going to share our system with you. It takes a little bit to maintain but I usually welcome the sanity of sitting down on Sunday night and going over everything that needs to get done. I’ve entered that phase of motherhood where I couldn’t tell you if I showered this morning or what day of the month it is…I just don’t remember.īut one good thing has come out of all of the craziness…one, very detailed, schedule. Plus of course, just the rest of life in general. It’s always one doctor’s appointment after another for our oldest son, I’ve been working on things with the books and the blog, and we usually have a large garden that takes a lot of maintaining. It seems like summer days (or most days) just go way too fast.
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