Thank you Great Aupair for sending us to Blog Her !
By Organized Mom | June 13, 2008
On July 17th The Almost always Organized Mom will be flying down to San Fransisco to join over 1000 other female bloggers for the Annual Blog Her convention! How ? Our blog has been sponsored by GreatAupair.com and Greatnannies.com !
GreatAupair is the internet’s leading childcare service matching busy moms and families from all over the world with nannies and aupairs. In fact I have found a new AuPair myself who will be joining this busy home in September.
If you are a blogger you will want to sign up for their family website affiliate program, If you are a mom you should stop in and register for free and check out all the great nannies.
I will be at the peoples party on Thursday evening and be sure to find me as I will have a few special trinkets provided by GreatAupair fro a few select mom bloggers !
Great Aupair supports mom bloggers, moms, and families. The direct result is the Almost Always Organized Mom attending Blog Her 2008 !
See you at Blog Her !
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Memo To me
By Organized Mom | June 13, 2008
I have been using Memo to me for a few days in the hopes that it will help me remember all those to do items, special events, and tasks.
Short of writing what needs to get done each day on my children’s foreheads it seems something gets forgotten each day. This service is great. If you are only sending reminders to yourself the service is FREE. Need to send a reminder to more then one person or to your cell phone ? The fee is ‘negotiable’ you heard me right ‘negotiable’.
I love the ability to send my message reminders to more then one person and the ’simplicity’ of this service. I find at times that some services are overwhelmingly full of gadgets to the point of needing two days to learn how to use them. Memo to me, is simple, fast, efficient.
My email text reminders hit my cell phone within 30 seconds ! (I am in Canada). I have reviewed and used a few other “online reminder services” and as of today Memo To Me is officially the favorite of the Almost Always Organized Mom.
I also forget birthdays. Now I am reminded to call special family and friends on their birthday!
The service allows you set up your co workers, friends, family and send your email reminders to everyone. I love that you don’t have to use SMS which can become costly.
The only thing I seem to still not remember is to get the garbage out.
So I am heading back to the Memo to me website to send myself a text message reminder for every Thursday am at 10 am.
I have not been paid for this review moms - this really is just my experience with a GREAT free online tool to help you “remember” the 9 million things on your busy mom to do list.
~ The Almost Always Organized Mom
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Whats on your dinner plate meal planner contest for busy moms
By Organized Mom | June 4, 2008
It’s our what’s on your dinner plate contest! Tell us what you served your children for dinner today and be entered to WIN a copy of Home Cookings amazing meal planning software!
You can earn up to eleven entries.
Tell us what you served for dinner for one entry.
Download the free trial version of the Home cooking software and tell us what you like about the software for five entries.
Post our contest and a link to our sponsor on your blog for another five entries. (Be sure to post your link in the MR Linky below after you post on your blog :)
“Recipe software should be easy to use, accomplish the tasks you need most, and not be complicated with rarely used features. Home Cooking Menu Planning software have over 15 years experience developing recipe programs, and has listened to the suggestions of thousands of users.
I have been busy using this software customizing it for my family’s meal planning and grocery lists.
You can find the contest details here.
Contest is limited to USA Canada Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
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Busy moms Are You Scared of ‘De-clutter’? - Guest Article
By Organized Mom | June 3, 2008
Written by: Kurien Abraham
Busy mom, if you’ve lost sight of your carpet, can’t find your clean clothes in the pile on the floor, and don’t remember if that basket holds trash or important paperwork, it’s time to de-clutter. If you need a hammer and nails but have to wade through your family’s old toys, paint cans, and things that have gathered dust in your garage to find them, it’s time to de-clutter.
Have you given up having family dinners because you’ve lost the dining room table under the accumulated mess?
Read the rest of this entry »
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Lost keys and helicopter parenting - Almost Organized Mom Blog
By Organized Mom | June 3, 2008
Last week I discovered two things in my motherhood journey.
The first is that I am not a helicopter mom and the second is that the best place for your spare car key is “in your wallet”.
I attempted to make a quick run with my daughter to the store to purchase some totes (I needed to organized my shoes in the closet and some office related paper clutter I haven’t gotten to yet ;) I walked in with my keys.My daughter and I went straight to the totes then to the linens to grab a hypo allergenic mattress cover and straight to the check out. When I arrived at the check out I had no keys.
This is an ongoing issue for me. My best friend will tell you from the time I was 16 and was the first girl in our group to get a car ( i worked and bought it myself) she would have to follow me around and pick up the keys where ever I left them to ensure everyone had a ride home.
Ladies, you have to picture my key chain. First it has TWO key chains stuck together home and office. then it has a large blue around your neck butterfly band (like the employees at Target would wear). Then I have a third key chain attached with all my membership cards, library cards all neatly hole punched and ringed.
Yet still I lost them. However, this time i realized it was not worth the time to get upset or waste time searching. We back tracked once , informed customer service leaving my cell number, and then I called a cab to retrieve my spare keys. I wasn’t late for my meeting :) It took the store 3 days to find they keys.
Organization to me is largely about time management. Time management is about prioritizing and balance. Searching for keys when I have a spare (even if it was at home) and a meeting in 40 minutes was not a priority. My time searching even if after 30 minutes I found they keys would have been a waste of 30 minutes and most likely would have resulted in some additional needless anxiety.
When I told my father he laughed and shared that the last time he lost his keys he went to look for the magnetic key holder he had on the car and all that was left was the magnet ! Then he shared some fatherly wisdom that would have saved me $10.00 on a cab. Keep your spare key in your wallet. This also solves those times when you remember your purse but leave the keys in the ignition.
Now for helicopter parenting. I am not a FREE FREE range mom but I have effectively given myself permission to NOT be a helicopter parent. My stress level has gone down and my children are happy. I am allowing them to ride their bike in the front of the house and go back and forth between our yard and two neighbours with children the same age. My official comment on Helicopter Versus Free range parenting. Its an individual decision each family needs to make on their own. I have found a happy medium between two extremes. Which of course equals a ‘balance’ .
Have a great week !
The Almost Always Organized Mom
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