Tuesday, December 20

Home Management Binder ~ Part Un

If you missed the other posts about my Home Management Binder, you can find them here:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4


The other day I posted asking for your questions and one of them was whether we had a game plan for life after these three are born. Simple {and hard} answer is "No", because I have no idea what to expect.

BUT I have had something in the works for a while: A Home Management Binder. With not knowing how many people we will have helping out, and knowing that no one, but me and Matt, knows how to wash cloth diapers, I decided I needed to take the time to create some sort of system of information.

A while ago I read the book Large Family Logistics (LFL), which was helpful, but not really, because the assumed norm of having one kid at a time doesn't apply to us. In general there was a lot of great information for ANY size family on getting organized. One of big things the author did discuss was creating an information center and a sort of system to your daily/weekly/monthly life.


I googled for a while (there's lots of ideas and lots of FREE things too); finding different ideas of what should be in it, ideas for layouts and formats, and referenced the LFL book. The hardest thing about this is what works for one family won't for another so you've got to really play around with ideas and designs, which I did months ago, but I never put the binder together.

I got my latest issues of Better Homes and Gardens today and for the new year they had a section on creating a Command Center Binder, with a free download (it has a lot of great information in it). That sealed the deal...I'm going to sit down and get this information pulled together. I've already done a lot of the leg work in creating the computer documents.

I'll be posting Part Deux, once I've pulled all the supplies together, to show you how I'm creating our Home Management Binder!

2 comments:

sadie607 said...

I would without a doubt include some pages in their to track when each babies eat and how much. And also track dirty diapers (at least at first)

This was a life saver for me and marcus because we could never remember who ate when and it also helped when we had other people around helping out. That way we always knew who was due to eat etc.

You're doing so amazing!

Diane Shiffer said...

Jess... I love my home management binder! It desperately needs updating, I'm afraid to say.. but still such a valuable resource. And it gives me tremendous peace of mind to have all the little details written down in case of emergency.... especially as a single mom! I'm looking forward to seeing how yours develops:)

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