Get Organized with Binders

         










My binders are finally done! Yay! So behind the scenes of blogging I've been putting together my binders and that's one reason why I haven't been up dating daily as much. So in all I have 5 binders dedicated to my schedules, activities, recipes, important documents, and work outs. I do have a sixth binder but it's going to be smaller than these and I've been having trouble finding the perfect one that won't cost me 5 bucks for.

So the recipe binder is pretty self explanatory with a little twist. So I just added in the front before the tabs some very helpful info that I picked up at my local Publix that provides all kinds of info on food storage, preparation, facts and just all things about your food that everyone should know. And I know it's not very clear what the tabs say so here they are: breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, deserts, beverages, quick meals, and holiday treats. and in between each of them are the recipes in the sheet savers and right now not all of them are in sheet savers because I underestimated how many recipes I have so I need more more more sheet savers.

This binder above is the activities binder that's just for Jaylen. It consist of pages and pages of age approiate things for him to do up to age 2 right now and I hadn't seen this particular idea any where but I did find the list of activities here. It's a great binder to have for kids because it comes in handy when your little seems bored the the same old stuff and you can keep it forever and have it for the next kid that comes along and even then after they have kids you can pass it down to theirs!

The schedule binder it's the most used so this is basically my go to binder all day everyday. I find this set up much easier than a planner because you can make it your own and it's way cuter. And with the clear page protectors you can just use a dry erase so there's no need to print 52 pages for each week that might not even get fully used...I hate to waste. Especially because I have sooooo many printables that I want to use over the years I know I wouldn't want to reuse anyway so why not make the most out of all your fave printables. 

So for these last 2 binders the one above isn't quite done yet and I hate that because I wanted to get them all done before I posted this but I felt it was long awaited. Basically what will go in that one is workouts that I've copied and pasted from here with pics and a description of how to do the workout under each section for a workout for different parts of the body. So you could understand why it would take a little longer to put that together but I swear when it's all finished I will post about it. Now the binder below I forgot to take an individual picture like all the others so from the pic below you can catch what I was going for. With this binder, it's also used pretty frequently considering how much I shop so it holds all things important when it comes to money. I have a section for receipts, manuals, orders, car insurance info, lease and anything that I just don't want to lose but I need to be in one place so I can easily find it if I need to. Also the picture on the right is showing a cool printable I came across that has a breakdown of documents you should keep and for how long. It's very helpful to have something like that to always be able to refer back to when filing papers away.

 

Also for the fronts and backs of these that was all my idea to just use the fancy and very cute paper from joann's to put on the fronts and backs to give them life and also be able to easily know whats in each binder just but the cover.

Now I didn't pull this idea of these ingenious binders from just anywhere and I want to give all the sites credit that helped shaped my binders together so here they are:   

http://pinterest.com/taysherman/printables/
http://professorpoppins.blogspot.com/2011/03/family-planner.html
http://splendidmissm.blogspot.com/2011/08/welcome-to-day-two-of-getting-organized.html
http://www.thehouseholdplanner.com/products/weekly-pages/
http://iheartorganizing.blogspot.com/search/label/Spreadsheets
http://iheartorganizing.blogspot.com/2011/04/reader-space-jennas-fantastic-filing.html
http://blueeyedbride.com/2011/08/04/how-my-home-organization-notebook-changed-my-life-and-a-link-up/
http://printables.yourway.net/
http://www.writeclickscrapbook.com/write_click_scrapbook/2011/02/beginner-digi-week-day-4.html
http://www.howdoesshe.com/clean-mama-printables-giveaway
http://www.crystalwilkerson.com/2011/02/2011-planner.html
http://boldturquoise.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/putting-together-your-meal-plan-binder-for-the-year/#entry
http://abowlfulloflemons.blogspot.com/2011/01/weekly-challenge-1-home-management.html
http://www.designfinch.com/2011/07/31/sunday-planning/

It's been to long

Since I've posted, but I have good reasons. We went on  mini vacation down to visit my sister and her boyfriend in Miami. Jay had a lot of fun he doesn't love the sand to much but other wise he seemed to have fun. And as for the 5 hour car ride he did surprisingly well considering the situation. We made about 4 stops along the way to Miami and 1 back because he slept majority of the way home which was nice for me and him. So here are a few snap shots of our time in Miami!

His first Crayons!

The 20st century has the most amazing little inventions these days. I had nothing even in comparison to these crayons and colored pencils. But when I saw them I just had to have them for Jay.

But I of course want the most for my money so I searched many other sites to compare prices and how many you get for the price. And I just ended up waiting a while and when I checked back on my fave online shopping site there they were on sale! Get your own here: crayons & twig pencils.

The crayons aren't on sale any more unfortunately, because when I got then they were $6 and now they are $12 for 30.

The colored pencils are still the same price on amazon originally $8 for 8 on anthropologie! Crazy right I got the 3.5in size for $1.99 for 12...a much better deal I think. If you want the next size up they are just a dollar more on amazon.

Books Books Books!

Jaylen loves books! He collection is ever so growing into a mini toddler library. And I just love it he has a bigger selection in his play room and a few by the bed for night time stories. But it's funny with his books, he'll bring them to you to read but won't stick around long for you to finish reading it. Although that's the case he definitely has his favorites like below, and to the left. When he's a little older and actually wants to listen to me read I want to get into the habbit of reading 5 books a day which I saw on my fave mom blog. 

But for now I enjoy getting to read to 

him for the little time he'll have me.

Diaper Days

I "Honest"ly love these cute little diapers! I heard about them through the grape vine and just had to get in on the cuteness action. So these are Honest diapers and they work really great and they are just way cute I haven't photographed him wear all the designs yet but I will. I got them in a trial offer and I managed to get two sets because I got one when I lived in Washington then ordered them again when I moved to Florida! Sneaky little me, but I don't want to spend what they are asking for, for some cute diapers that will be covered up unless your baby is naked all the time. But I thought getting them for 4 dollars was worth it for a sample pack. So if your interested just for picture taking like me follow the link and just pay shipping and handling and they are yours but of course there is a catch. They will automatically charge your card for an order if you don't call and cancel within 7 days and it's really simple to cancel.

Jaylen's Side

This is Jaylen's side of the room since we share one right now, I still wanted him to have the "my room" kind of feel. I loves the way it turned out with the little touches of simple decor from Ikea. Also the plain dark blue sheet just added the pop or boldness I was looking for. We have the master in the apartment so the room fits all this plus my queen sized bed that I will post about after this. If you are in a living situation that's similar, try to make it accommodate both you and your little one neither of you feel like you don't have your own.