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Home Organization: The Pantry
I didn’t intend to tackle the pantry before a whole host of other projects that are more urgent, but I honestly couldn’t take it anymore. We don’t have a ton of kitchen space, and our cabinets are deep, so stuff just kind of gets stuffed toward the back.
Matt and Henry were out for a run and Tate was still sleeping, so I seized the opportunity to pull everything out. I wasn’t sure what the plan of action was going to be, so seeing everything on the counter helped me generate next steps. I started grouping like-items and realized that they primarily fell into two categories:
- Things to store in
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Making a Clearing
When I started thinking about my New Year’s Intentions last week, I stumbled upon the idea of needing to make a big clearing to accommodate all the work that is coming up in my life. I’ve been friends with lots of folks who have started schools (and worked part-time to help open a school in 2012-13), and the consensus is that it’s overwhelmingly crazy.The problem is that I don’t want the craziness to box out the other parts of my life that need attention, such as my family and my health/wellness. For me, it’s all a connected system and all the parts have to be functioning well (even if… Read More -
New Organization System
Every time there’s a change in my life, I usually have to make some kind of change to my organization system. Here are some of its past iterations:As I head into school leadership, I need to have a vastly more complex system than I’m using now. It needs to be computer-based (even though I’m a paper-and-pen kind of gal), and it needs to sync to my phone, so that I always have it with me.A couple months ago, Matt pointed out the most awesome system that was already on my computer: OneNote. I love it! It’s basically a computerized… Read More
