• Command Center,  Decor & Organization

    Bringing it all together

    This year is all about organization.  We see and hear it everywhere.  From the new organizational items on the market to the new TV shows about organization; organization is definately on everyone’s mind this year.  I was able to utilize our rather long family entrance hallway (you know, the one to the garage since we never actually use our front door) to organize several, often chaotic, tasks into one area. Areas such as this have many names.  Some people call them “command centers”, some call them “family planning centers”, and some call them “drop zones’.  I have also seen them referred to by many other names but whatever you call…

  • Command Center,  Decor & Organization

    Weekly Family Planner for the Command Center

    I finally found the weekly family calendar that I have been looking for.  I use one of the Mom’s calendars for planning further out, and I love it, but I need a larger and more prominent calendar to plan out our weeks.  When I saw this at Hobby Lobby I knew it was the one. Even though I really like this one, it was missing a couple of things. First I sometimes need to keep track of papers which have to be returned to school on particular days or items that needs to be mailed on a specific date.  To help with that, I attached Bulldog clips between each day.…