Happy New Year: Planner Edition

I just love the excitement that a new year brings. There are always lots of goals and aspirations. But my favorite thing about the New Year is a new planner! I have two this year: one I purchased, and one was gifted to me.

This year I went back to the Classic disc-bound Happy Planner. Last year I had a hard-back, spiral-bound, Big Happy Planner. I love them both, but the classic is a better size. I wish they had a spiral-bound classic size!

As always, I have to add my own special touch by placing our family Christmas card picture in the front. These are the people I plan my life with and I love to see them when I open my planner!

I went with the vertical lay-out again. I have tried the horizontal lay-out in the past, and I am just not a fan.

The monthly page is the same. I am a don't fix it if it isn't broke kind of girl.

This one was gifted to me by sweet Wrenley. I'm pretty sure it came from Tractor Supply (the chicken gave it away!).

Wrenley loves her bok-boks!

This planner is like a brain dump. It has three sections: Home, Work, and Play. The Home section of the planner will be for daily/weekly cleaning and to-do lists. The Work section will be for my blogging ideas and cleaning reminders (cleaning is also my job). I am changing the Play section to my church section. I do the bulletin/announcements for our church and this year Makena and I are co-directors of VBS, so I will have lots of things to keep up with!

I also added a monthly calendar to the front page of each section. I didn't show it because I already have personal information written on it. Planning makes me happy :)

On Monday, I went through all of my planner stickers. Man, that was a job! I organized them in a binder, and I feel better about being able to find the particular sticker I need when I need it! I also downsized my planner cube. We will see if I can manage a smaller one better than I did the larger one :)

New Year's Eve was very different this year. We went to my parents' house. We had dinner and played a few games, but we were home and in our jammies by 8 p.m. Makena went to her friend's house for a party and Trey and Maggie stayed home.

I don't think we have rung in the New Year alone since 1999!

I fixed black-eye peas for the first time (usually my mom or Grammy fixed them) on New Year's Day. We had an excellent meal of pork chops, cornbread, cabbage, and black-eye peas. I am not superstitious, but I do love traditions :)

I definitely needed to add more salt, but they were delicious!

I didn't do much on New Year's Day except cook, work on my planner, make a meal plan/grocery list for the week, and last night we went to church. Carl is nursing a man cold. Ya'll better pray for me!

Happy New Year, friends!

Much Love,

Beth

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