Back To School: Tips for Organizing Your Day!
Back to school time can be easier if you put routines in place. Having set schedules is very helpful, and so is taking the time to set up stations for school day necessities. Have a designated lunch station. Place all kids lunch foods in one spot in the refrigerator and in one spot in the […]
Back To School: Routines Make Your Day Easier
Planning is Key! We’re heading back to school soon, and days can get chaotic. I was teaching a class about back to school organizing recently, and one of the participants said, “but it takes so much time to get organized”. Yeah, it can. But it sure pays off in the end, saving you not only […]
Back To School Organizing Seminar!
Back To School Organizing Seminar this Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 at Office Max in Brentwood! Join NAPO Nashville and Office Max to learn how to get and stay organized this school year. Our local National Association of Professional Organizers will help you with your organizing issues – you know, the ones we all have when […]
guest post on Small Notebook: kids gifts minus the “stuff”
I recently wrote a guest blog post on one of my favorite blogs, Small Notebook, about gifts for kids that don’t involve stuff like plastic toys from China and shopping at Target or Walmart. Here’s the link and I hope you enjoy: Great Gifts for Kids That Don’t Involve “Stuff” This is also a great […]
“how-to” make a cool Easter scavenger hunt . . . what the easter bunny did!
Today I was awakened at 6:15AM which is well before my usual, desired Sunday morning wake up time but I could hear my daughter exclaiming over what the Easter Bunny did! In the past, she basically finds a basket filled with goodies and goes on a sugar rampage – this year was a bit different. […]
rules for kids – how specific does one need to be!?!
I’m all about setting limits and routines for things to help kids get through the day (and me too!) but I try not to go overboard. And I kind of figured that my rule of “hairbrush goes in the bin in the bathroom” was pretty clear. My daughter has decided that the only hairbrush worth […]
getting kids out the door in the morning without ripping out your hair
I was out at PF Chang’s for dinner the other night with friends, and of course we started talking about the kids, family life, etc. The topic of the mornings came up and I mentioned how much I enjoyed sitting and reading the paper with my cup of coffee. One of my friends looked at […]
organizing kids artwork & papers . . .
My daughter is prolific when it comes to creating artwork and I’ve designed her room to reflect that. I talk to my clients about creating zones in a kids bedroom or playroom to play upon their personalities and what they truly like to do (not what you THINK they should do). So her room has […]
kids organizing seminar went well but differently than I planned
So I did my kids organizing seminar at the library yesterday. Really nice group of people showed up, including a bunch of my friends (nothing like pressure when your friends show up – kidding – it was great to have the moral support). It was interesting – I planned to talk about 2 aspects of […]
joyce jackson and kids safety
So, I had a really interesting phone conversation with a woman named Joyce Jackson recently. We were connected by Chris Tabscott of Titan Home Loans here in Nashville. She’s out on the West Coast so at first I was confused – what would she need with a professional organizer and home stager based in Franklin, […]
