Adventure In The Great Wide Somewhere

To get the non-legal-ese out of the way: I have no financial relationship of any kind with Erin Condren. I don't receive free products or any form of compensations. I just really, really love my planner. Almost to the end of last year's LifePlanner I squeaked with delight when I scrolled through the options for shiny new LifePlanners in mid-June. There, hidden in plain sight among the beautiful, inspirational covers sat the only option I could consider. "Create Your Own." I spent half the day designing my cover only to discover that the computer/bandwith/website did not want me to upload pictures. Banking on the fact that it was the first day that the 2015/2016 planners appeared, I vowed to try again the next morning. I love the smell of office supplies in the morning. Around 5 am the following morning, it uploaded straight away! I loved the picture I'd uploaded and was super excited for my box day to arrive... Box Day! I opened it up to disc...

A few New Year's resolutions keep rising to the top. If you opt to skip the get heatlhy, lose weight route this year, I am a big fan of getting organized.   When I am organized, budgeting flows easier, because I know what I have, what I need, what I can do without and whether I have the money set aside.  An organized workspace makes me smile and want to blog. Or at least helps me feel less guilty when I spend inordinate amounts of time on Pinterest. When I am organized, my household is less stressed, because I don't go to crazy mom mode over realizing at the last second that we are late, missing a form or need to run out on an emergency errand to a store we just visited yesterday. When I am organized, I can keep from running around like a crazy person.   I finally hit critical mass sometime around when my second child made her debut. I just couldn't keep track of everything I needed to do on my humble wall calendar any longer. The Lillipu...