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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.…
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Jobs-For-Hire Board
Command Center Jobs-For-Hire Board One of the things I knew from the beginning I wanted to add to my Command Center is a jobs-for-hire board. When I received this beautiful barn door chalk/magnet/ cork board for Christmas, I knew I had found the home for my jobs-for-hire board. Job Descriptions The jobs I list on my Jobs-For-Hire board are usually quick jobs I could use some help with. I list things like “Vacuum the stairs” or “Unload the dishwasher”. Along with the jobs, I include how much you will be paid for the job and I attach the cash to the cork board behind the job posting. This simple practice…
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Creating a Family Menu Board for Your Command Center
My family definitely needs to have planned meals. With the kids’ sports’ schedules some days we need to have quick and easy meals (or possibly even eat-on-the-run meals), but on the days with no sports or after-school activities we prefer longer, sit-down meals and having the menu planned out a week at a time helps us make sure we aren’t missing any opportunities to do just that. Having a menu board also helps with grocery shopping as I am no longer standing in the middle of Kroger trying to figure out what I should make for dinner. I knew when I began working on a command center, that a menu…
