February 3in30 Week 1

 

My goals for February are:

1. Finish filling out and using home management binder.

2. Drink 6-8 glasses of water a day, and take my vitamins.

3. Live more simply.

We are 3 days into February, and I think my progress is good!

1. I already printed and put together my binder, I also blogged about it. I realized one day in I was not liking how many things I had in it, or the bulky binder.

So, I simplified. Enter household notebook.

I had to print off all new pages, since mine were three hole punched. I printed them on heavier paper, for longevity. I left out the school and finance pages. The binder is fine for me for the school stuff, and I already have a system that works for me for the bills.

Staples only had a choice of black or blue. I chose black. This cover is fun for me, the first name of my blog was Sam’s Noggin. Then homeschooling hit us. I guess it could have stayed, but I felt like “my” blog became more “us”.

I chose a pastel blue to keep the bold 3in30 goal list from showing through too much.

My goals page, thanks!

Year at a glance.

For my review deadlines.

Monthly calendar. What? Don’t all calendars start with December???

I realized my mistake in the car. I must have put the stack in upside down when I rushed off to Staples. At least I only planned 6 month’s worth of daily schedules….

I did keep these two from the last setup.

Hopefully I won’t be behind on cards this year!

Thanks Hope, for the link to this page. It will come in handy! This begins my cooking section, which is not long.

Quick cheat guide that will keep me lugging out the monster cookbook when I pull my freezer meals out.

This page is to fill in new recipes to add to my month long cooking schedule. I hope to add many more freezer cooking favorites!

Weekly chore cheat sheet. My goal is one crazy cleaning day every Friday, and just touch-ups through the week. To me, there is nothing better than a top to bottom clean house, even if it doesn’t last all week!

I think this idea is so neat! This came from a download I bought from LifeasMom.com. I have a spot in the daily routine for the kids to do these 5 things, once in the morning and once in the evening. We are still keeping up with the chore list from January as well.

The rest of my notebook consists of 6 months worth of daily pages. I wanted it to be daily, but not too thick. I also figured if I change my mind about anything I am only committed to six months.

This cost me 4 bucks and change yesterday. They were having some kind of customer appreciation thing and they gave me a 1 inch binder, zippered pouch with office supplies, filler paper, a handful of nifty paperclips and pushpins. I consider the notebook free for all of that!

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2. I have not made it to the water goal, that is a lot of water for me! I have gone from a glass of water during my workout to 4-5 glasses. I will go from there. I have missed my vitamins one day.

I know I have been drinking well however, because I have to tinkle. A lot.

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3. I am continuing to read through Organized Simplicity. Tonight we will begin a 10 journey to have less stuff by doing a quick purge of the house.

We will go together into each room with new eyes and pull the easy to grab stuff we don’t love and put it in either a Goodwill or yard sale box. All trash we find goes out as well. Not that we have anything laying around that needs to go in the trash…..anywho, I will keep updating what we are doing, and how it is going.

I don’t have any trouble purging. The other 7 people in my house are aliens, and they have trouble getting rid of stuff.

I really thought as Type A as I am , I would at least get one kid who turned out like me. So far, not so good.

How are your 3in30 goals coming along?