Getting My Life Organized!

With house guests gone and Matt's travelling (he's on business trip in Germany), this unusual vacuum in the household makes it seem like I have all the time in the world. Carpe Diem style, I immediately immerse myself in my favorite chore: getting my life organized.

And indeed there is a lot of organizing to do. Ever since I started teaching, I was put on the overdrive to plan lessons and learn on the job that I never got time to organize all my materials(gasp!). So during this once-in-a-blue-moon stint of anti-social solitude, I have gotten myself quite organized (ahhh!):

- organized all pdf and word files into the various categories of spelling, writing, comprehension, phonics, grammar, graphic organizers, and checklists
- created an updated student log (with all the newly added students) to keep track of goals and comments
- created time sheet to log in hours and payroll status
- created student homework log sheet accompanied with point system to give them visible boundaries and motivation to complete work outside of class
-set up my company email
-still in the process of finalizing my business card in order to get them to be printed

I got a little carried away with all the charts and checklists that I imposed 2 small things for the household in addition to our existing weekly schedule and meal plan:

- chores chart for Luke: I actually found this on http://www.chartjungle.com. It's a pictorial chart for toddlers with reasonable responsibilities like brushing teeth, making the bed, putting dishes away...cute! And I reckon that for kids, it's better to start early than late, especially now that we have our helper Rachel constantly picking up after us...
- a recipe folder for Rachel. She seemed a little intimidated by my bookcase-ful of cookbooks, so I printed out our household favorites and put together a cook-binder for her so that she may feel better (and not as lost) experimenting new recipes

Man! Life is good when it's organized!

Next on the list: create an account for my income in our cashflow center on Quicken.