New Year's Resolutions...

Okay, I realize we're already half-way through January..but we are just getting going on our New Year's Resolutions here in the Smith household! We were out of town for New Year's, and when we did get back we were busy dealing with this, which is why we're just getting around to our goals for 2011. Derek & I each have a few resolutions that we plan to work on this year, but I find that I tend to make goals and forget about them by the time February rolls around. So I wanted to make a plan to keep myself accountable for my resolutions.

One of my goals is to be more organized at home and stay on top of the "house work." Before having a baby, I assumed it would be so easy to keep a clean house if I stayed at home..HA! It's amazing how quickly the days go by when you're at home with a little one! In between nursing, diapers, playing, cleaning up spit-up, reading books, wardrobe changes due to the afore mentioned spit-up, etc...it's easy to let the housework get put on the back burner! So here's my attempt to stay on top of it all...

{click on photo of Chore Chart to enlarge}

So the idea is that I have certain chores to be done daily, some that will be done once a week, once a month, and once every 3 months.

And in addition to my handy-dandy little chore chart (and yes, I know I'm a nerd for making a chore chart...but I figure if it helps me keep this resolution, then it's totally worth it!), I've created a little daily to-do list of sorts. I got the term/inspiration for the "Daily Docket" from the Simple Mom blog, but I've made a few changes to it to suit my needs. I consider myself to be a bit of a Type A personality, so I like having a plan in mind for each day. As of now, I think I will fill out the Daily Docket the night before the next day, so that way when I wake up I'll already have an idea of what my day is going to look like. And there's nothing I love more than a good ole to-do list. (Don't you just love the feeling of crossing things off?!?!) So the daily docket is really just a glorified to-do list.

{click on photo of Daily Docket to enlarge}

Because I'm anal, I have a different Daily Docket form for each day of the week so that way I can list the chores that are specific to that day. For example, this is Monday's form so it lists that I will meal plan/grocery shop...Tuesday's form lists Tuesday's chores, and so on.

Again, call me nerdy..but I'm kind of excited to see if this organization will help me! My plan is start using these forms on Monday..I'll keep you posted on how it goes! Does anyone else have anal organization systems like this, or am I crazy?! And if anyone likes these forms, I'd be happy to share my documents with you or share some sites (in addition to Simple Mom) I found for inspiration!