Up To My Eyeballs

I really had plans to begin blogging daily once school got started again. Really. I promise!

The last few weeks have been, for lack of a better word, jam packed! Often, over the last three weeks, I've felt like I'm being pulled in a million different directions and truthfully, while it's not 'a million', I do have a lot going on at this particular time. I feel like a juggler some days-- balancing church, school, family, friends, keeping up with email, managing the membership & website for our local homeschool group, planning for a family cruise/vacation, and struggling to find a minute or two for myself.

Don't mistake this for complaining. I am blessed to have so many opportunities in my life to serve and be a part of great things happening in our home, church, and homeschool group. But this time of year it seems they all peak at the same time and thus, the feeling of being stretched in all directions.

We are now in our third week of school for the 2011-2012 school year and so far things are going pretty smoothly. I attribute a lot of that to our new scheduling tools.

I am using The Well Planned Day's yearly planner to keep track of assignments for all three kids. I absolutely love everything about this planner! Here's a glimpse of where we are right now (click photo for an enlarged view):

You can see that each subject has it's own space for each day of the week, and each space has four lines for scheduling up to four children. Checkboxes make it easy to see what's been finished each day. I'm left wondering now how I survived my first 9 years without this planner! Aside from the perfect planning pages, there are also pages for tests, attendance records, and weekly tear-out shopping lists.

If you think you'd love this planner as much as I do, please see my affiliate link on the right side of my blog! I'd appreciate it :)