The Planner

I have lived my life and continue to live my life around organizers and planners.  This must be the OCness in me.  I started having one when I was still in high school.  And now I'm asking myself why I had one (hahaha!).  Did I have meetings and events back in high school? Lol :P  Maybe my classmates can remind me.  

In college, organizers and planners became all the more important.  Schedule of exams, meetings, co-curricular activities and extra-curricular ones.  In law school, more important exams, meetings, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.  

In the profession I am in right now, planners and organizers are a must.  I must say I have many professions, foremost of which is being a mom.  It's a full time job.  I am also a lawyer and an educator.  So having three (3) professions, it is all the more important to have a planner to schedule my life and to schedule everyone else's.  I write down my hearings, meetings, deadlines, schedule of exams and school activities.  And oh, I also write down scheduled vacations (this is a MUST!).  I also write down my twins' schedule (YES, they have).  They have scheduled play dates, parties, pedia visits, and the like.  And I also write down my husband's schedule (to keep track of him. hahahaha!).  Honestly, I just write it down so that my life gets a bit organized and I believe, organization is the key to a happy family.  Do you agree?

This 2012, I had a Mom Planner.  I got it from Momme Planner on Facebook.  The weekly schedule had a space for me, for the husband, and for the kids.  Nice right?  It also had a space for doodles, menstrual tracker, expenses, meal planner, grocery list, to name a few.  I was really all praises for this organizer.  Check this out:

The Planner is inside.  I love the color!

We put the "ME" back in MOM.

The schedule- Me, Dad, and Kids.

However, I checked out their FB Page, and it seems there has been no activity since the beginning of the year.  I guess they're not coming out with a 2013 version. 

So for 2013, I had to find another planner.  Why this early?  Well, since October, I have 2013 schedules already.  And guess what?  I discovered the 2013 Starbucks Planner.  I am not a coffee drinker, but for this planner, I had to collect 17 stickers.  17 stickers meant drinking 9 Christmas blends and 8 ordinary blends.  I guess in less than a month, I completed my 17 stickers.  Don't ask me how.  Suffice it to say my husband and I drank coffee, I forced my mom to drink with us, I asked the stickers of those who ordered from Starbucks but did not want the planner (makapal ang mukha ko. hahaha!).  Check out my green planner:

I chose green. There's white and black too.

This is the OCness in me.  

The first few pages.  Take time.

 I am now in the process of collecting stickers for the 2nd planner, not for me but for my husband.  And maybe, just maybe, if I can get a 3rd one, I will have a giveaway.

Well, it's not really the mom planner which I wanted to have.  I guess I will just have to improvise.  I will be buying color-coded stickers to write down the twins' and the husbands' schedule.  And then I guess paper inserts for everything else which I need to write.

Happy organizing in 2013!