Organized Little Wife...

Tonight as I was getting things ready so I can feel like it's ok to have Monday show up tomorrow morning, I stepped back and looked at myself for a sec. So I thought I would share with you some of the ways I try and keep organized, because...well, we all know how busy life can be. If you are anything like me, I can get stressed out easily and then, well, it's just not a good thing. So here's some tips!

My top 10 ways to stay organized...
      in absolutly no order

1. Lists lists and more lists. I'm a list girl. So I take the time to write down the things I need to get done, and the things I want to get done. If you don't get to that one thing on your list, just cross it off and put it on tomorrow's list....works for me!

2. Adding to the world of lists, I actually mentally go through what's going on each evening of this week so that I know which nights I am making dinner for Jason and I both. Then, I jot down what I will make so I don't have to get home and fret at 5:00pm wondering what I am going to feed my poor hard working starving husband! It works out that I typically make three good dinners, and then the rest of the nights we are either gone or left overs are to be enjoyed.

3. Planner. If I don't have my cute little planner, I will miss coffee dates, homework assignments, and every other thing I am supposed to be at. When I was younger, I used to see my Mom write on her wrists those "MUST do's" or leave sticky notes on the cabinets in the kitchen. Until now, I never understood.

4. Before I get all tired out at the end of the day, I go around the house and tidy it up quick. I put things away and just straighten things up so that I don't wake up in the morning feeling annoyed by a messy house. Now, I'm not the average Joe, and at times I enjoy the house being a little more clean than it probably needs  to be. But, I've learned to do it in a way that's not obsessive so I can actually enjoy my home! Tidying here and there is the trick!

5. This goes for Sunday nights, so you can start off the week on a good note. Rather than spending that extra hour looking at endless pictures on facebook, I go through and write those lists of dinners for the week, groceries/errands needing to be run, and get the homework to do's all in order. This helps me feel like I'm actually ready to start a fresh week.

6. Choose one day a week that you will do the house cleaning. For me, this works. Yet, some weeks, I have to choose one chore to do a day if I don't have any days where I'm not working. This just helps you feel more relaxed at home knowing that the house will get all cleaned, let's say, Friday. Then by next Friday, or the Friday after that (depending on how messy you are:)

7. Well, I don't think I have anything else for you right now, but I could come up with more;)

Enjoy being organized!