Clean Out the Bookcases. Carry over from last month. I’ve already started in again, so I feel very hopeful that this may be the month that I finish. Course Revision This is a work goal. I want to turn in the course revision that I’m working on by October 31. This entails a lot of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘planning’
October 3 in 30: Goals
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 3in30, organizing, planning, work on October 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Seasons of a Mother’s Heart: Chapter 4
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged faith, homeschool, planning on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The number and level of ironies with this chapter and this blog and its timing are almost too numerous to mention, but it’s a blog, so I can mention with impunity. Chapter 4 resonated with me on so many levels. We’ve been having increasing levels of frustration on all fronts because we don’t seem to [...]
The Best Laid Plans
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben, Family, homeschool, organizing, planning, teaching on September 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today is a day where a lot of plans are going topsy-turvy. The plan for the blog was to write a post about The Faculty Lounges by Naomi Schaefer Riley, but I don’t have the brain power to be all intellectual and marshal my arguments coherently. Why? Well, I get migraines (among the other health [...]
Finding a Planner . . . or three
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged homeschool, organizing, planning, teaching on September 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The bane of my existence is the word planner. I have tried it all. I have tried every organizational/time management/household management system out there. I won’t link to them all, but, essentially, if you can think of a name in those fields I’ve either read their books, tried their programs, or used their products, or [...]
Notes to my future self (Top 10 Things to Remember for Next Christmas plus a Couple)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, note to self, planning on January 5, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Hi adjunctmom! It’s Christmas time again, I see. Let me give you a few helpful hints to help alleviate your stress so that you don’t feel like maiming someone on the 23rd of December. 1) Get those grades in as fast as you can. Seriously, the extra days have really helped so if you possibly [...]
Routines
Posted in Family, Home, tagged organizing, planning on January 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I have done a great deal of reading about routines, setting them up, and using them. I swear by routines as a method of making sure things don’t slip through the cracks. However, I have to be realistic about those routines in order for them to work effectively. I learned this week that I can’t [...]

