New Classes Beginning!

Are you always looking for something because you can't remember where you put it?
Are you always running a little late and a little more scattered?
Does the question "What's for dinner?" strike terror in your mind?

Then

"From Out of Order to Living Life Organized"

is for you!

This series of 3 Organization Basics Classes

will help you learn how to

better organize yourself, your home and your family.

Thursdays, October 6, 13 and 20, 7:00 -9:00 p.m.

6256 West 10150 North, Highland, Utah

Organization Consultant, Christine Tippetts will help you learn valuable life skills in a comfortable home setting and see how you can create the same order in your own life and home.

Bring your family, bring your friends! Sign up now by emailing Christine at livelifeorganized23@gmail.com.

Cost for pre-registration for the 3 class series is $45 and includes exclusive organizational materials that you can’t get anywhere else including your own

personalized family binder!

Registration at the door is $55.

Please feel free to pass this invitation along to others who might be interested.

Family Calendar

Today, I wanted to show you a fun idea for the version of the Family Message Board that we've talked about before. This is my daughter's family calendar:

Her boys are still quite young (six, four and two) and so a full-on headquarters board isn't needed yet. But this calendar is perfect for them. She used a regular 20x28 picture frame and on the back of the glass, drew the lines for the calendar with permanent marker. She used vinyl lettering for the days.

Each month she draws in the numbers with white board markers and uses simple pictures to help her boys know what is happening. She erases the days past so they know what day it is and how many days until they go to the zoo, or it's Dad's birthday.

It's fun to ask the boys because they know when t-ball practice is, when it's Sunday (indicated by a tie) and when they're coming to my house for a splash party! Great way to keep the family organized!

Lunch Baskets

Over at Christine's Corner we've been talking about how to make lunches more enticing and nutritious (here and here). One thing that will help you with these new ideas is a Lunch Basket. This basket (or box) if filled with things that go into your lunches. This is especially great if your kids are filling their own lunch boxes. They can choose one of anything in the basket. You can have bags of chips, granola bars, fruit rolls -- whatever you want them to have. You can also have one in the refrigerator for things that need to stay cold. Kids love to pick things from their very own basket!

Finish It Friday

Tomorrow is Finish It Friday --- a perfect day for catching up on all the loose ends you have laying around, completing those errands you've been meaning to do and beginning the weekend without anything hanging over your head.

Don't you have those few little things that you need to do, but you just keep putting off? Every time you walk by the glue gun that you mean to return to your sister but don't, you're draining energy. It just nags at you. Sitting there. So does that baseball cap that is dirty and disgusting and you put it buy the laundry room sink to wash, but just haven't done it yet. Energy drain!

So, make your list today and grab a cute basket (that ALWAYS makes Finish It Friday more fun) and start to put things in it that need your attention tomorrow. I'm going to put away the baby blanket I lent, exchange the shirt I bought for another size, take some jam to my sick neighbor, return the book I borrowed and get that DVD in the mail.

What are you going to do on Finish It Friday?