family calendar organizing tips

i get asked all the time, how do you stay organized with so many schedules to accommodate? how do you keep track of everyone’s daily activities? today i cover this topic over at Boston Mama’s!

As the queen bee of the family, how do i keep it all organized? For starters my heart beats to to-do lists & calendaring and that is what keeps our active family functioning like a well-oiled machine. The key to my organization – a large family calendar. Mine is a classic franklin covey beauty. I also use lots of notes – post-it notes for daily to-dos and notes on my iPhone for shopping lists/reminders. In order to combine everyones schedules together, i must be able to see an entire month at a time. So, this is the only area of my life that technology has not taken over completely. long live the pencil & paper!

My personal, most useful tip is to schedule everything that happens out of the ordinary. Meaning: if your kids get out of school early on wednesdays, and that occurs every week. Write it on the calendar for every wednesday, “early out day.” Don’t expect yourself to remember that detail. Plan on forgetting. This way, you always have a note to remind yourself what goes on each day of every week.

To read all of my tips, go here!

how do you stay organized???

{photos by me.}