What does your datebook look like?

Planners. Datebooks.  Never the way I like them. I guess you can say I am very very picky about my datebook.  It is the heart of our appointments.  


Since I took this picture, I have added 5 more appointments!! (This is August.  I don't have a picture of October yet).

I have 3 areas in my home that is important for our appointments.  


I have a central communication hub in our home. It consists of our dry erase calendar board, the dry erase board that has notes, to do, & weekly.  I also have a blue blank dry erase board.  I also have a cork board, too!  We have our appointments on this dry erase board monthly calendar.  On the cork board, I have papers from school like phone numbers for teachers, etc.  I use my datebook to write down the appointments on the dry erase board monthly calendar.  Without my datebook, I would be lost (I back it up with Cozi).

I started using this dry erase board. I put anything that I need to remember.  Like Noah has 4 days for certain things he needs to do for Anti-bullying.  I also write down when the kids want to buy lunches.  Ash has swimming every Monday with her class.  That is a must remember!  I forgot once.  I don't want to do that again.  I did take her swimsuit & towel.

I also have my chalkboard for our weekly appointments.  I plan to do more here once I am done reading the book "Positive Discipline for Children with Special Needs: Raising and Teaching All Children to Become Resilient, Responsible, and Respectful

by Jane Nelsen, Steven Foster, Arlene Raphael."  I read this through our local library, but we are buying it.  It is going to be that helpful.  We were thinking of getting it for my Nook, but we want a hard copy.  I am waiting until I can get some Christmas gifts, too, from Amazon.


I want to add to add weekly family meetings, Special time with each of my kids.  


Our Chalkboard Wall (notice the penguin!  We made him.)

Close up of our Chalkboard (Love this wall)

I don't use the weekly pages in my datebook so it is a waste to me.  I only use the monthly calendar in my datebook, but I want something on it.  Color.  Pictures.  I can never find anything I like. I started to look for next year's datebook.  I need something from Jan-Dec 2012.  I only found ones that started in July 2011-July 2012.  Well, I don't need the months from this year.  That would be a waste of money & paper.   The datebook I have is from July 2010-Dec 2011.  What happen to those 18 months datebooks?  Are they going cheap here because of the economy?  They want us to buy more.


I used my cutter thing to cut my datebook down a little bit in size.


Here is the front page before being taken to Staples for binding:

Inside (I used many different colors):

After I went to Staples for binding:  

The Datebook I made has Jan 2012- Jan 2014 in it.  Not bad for the cost of paper, ink, & $4.23 to bind it at Staples.  I love it.  I have photos of the kids. I have a few with the note page.  It is colorful.


What does your datebook look like?
Mel