I am a creative person in most everything that I do!! I love to create new recipes, decorate my home and then redecorate it again and again. And who can forget….scrap-booking, tole painting, card making, any type of paper crafting, quilling, quilting and so many other wonderful outlets.
With being a wife of an Epileptic husband and a mom of an Autistic son…. my days do not always allow me the time or frame of mind to create in the above areas that I mentioned. I also work full-time and home-school our youngest…while doing that, I am also involved in support groups, and many ministries in and outside of my home. So a planner is a practical tool for me…. but also a much-needed outlet for me. But I have now learned to enjoy on a smaller scale the joy of be part of the planner community and to decorate my planner. This is an outlet that can allow me to create on days when I need to do mindless work, and a simple creative opportunity.
To some of my family and friends…they find this just plan nuts!!! I have always used a planner since my first job and the start of my career. Even back then 30 years+ ago…I would add a sticker, or doodle in it with a flower or two. I loved the look when I would open my calendar and see the art work next to the event or schedule I needed to attend.
Move forward 30+ years….and the planner community has allowed me a whole new way to create. Are you part of it? Have you been bitten by the planner bug? 
Does the smell of stickers and does pen ink excite you? Is going to the Dollar Tree and finding a new sickly note a highlight of your day…..well it is for me and many others. Just watching my Facebook groups with new hauls and new items from Etsy and the “DT”….is so much fun.
I will share in another blog post the breakdown of my planners and how I currently use them….but this was just a quick preview of what I like to use for my daily planner. My work schedule, my daily activities, my to-do list and other misc. dates to remember are in my Mini Happy Planner. This is a new style of planner for me this year and I am loving it!!!!!!
Here are a few pics of some of my favorite items and a picture of a before and after for both a monthly and weekly spread before the pen.
Reply below and tell me how you use your planner…..what items do you like to use in it? What is your favorite pen to use? Oh yes send pics too!!!!!
Lynn A.C. Wilson – Resume of a Mother
I am a Modern Day Working Mama with a homespun twist and a dash of special needs and disabilities – a life of adventure with a constant new norm. 
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h me that he and his wife where having a “discussion” about what to buy at the food store. Now you might ask “what is the big deal”…but we have all been there. Discussing, fighting, arguing about which Ice Cream to buy, what brand of bread to get etc…. It sounds silly and it really is and yet we let this get to us.
ightly that everything in life seems to bother her. She can bully anyone in her path for the smallest thing they have done wrong and yet if you try to talk to her about anything she will burst into tears with fits of anger. Yikes!!!
Yet on the other hand….life keeps calling, new places to see, new things to taste, new adventures to try with my family. I have people to meet, lives to encourage, people to share great experiences with, people to mentor, people to learn from and a whole lot of life to LIVE.
here is no time for anything anymore. The more I try to tweak things and slow things down …the busier I seem to get. I laugh at times…we love to “check-in” and document what we do on Facebook. I will show up to work or meet someone at an event and the first thing they will say to me is …..”How do you do all that you do?”
that mean the most, what does this mean to you? Even though we are very busy doing things, we are learning more and more that being busy with people and making memories is where it is at for us!!! We love things like home decor, we love to collect things and so on……not to say that there is anything wrong with that, but we have found for us and at this stage of life that “those things” have just taken on a whole new meaning. We have begun to change our way of life and not collect and accumulate so many things but to make choices of what we do like and really want to keep etc… I have also begun to take pictures of some of my treasures and journal the story behind them in a scrapbook. My kids don’t want my “things” ….this seems to be the new trend of the “Millennials” and the “Gen Y”. So then the question is ….what do we do with all this stuff? Well, I decided to get rid of a lot and make room not only in my house but in my life for new memoires that are not made of things, but events, people, and trips etc…..
for dinner. I met a family that said they would make a big deal on Sunday night and call it “Popcorn Sunday”. They had very little money and food during the depression…so popcorn was cheap and available to them so this is what they would eat. But yet the memories of this night still exists to this day and guess what they enjoy eating on a Sunday night still…you guessed it…”Popcorn”.
again and he smiles and is uplifted every time he talks about it. On Saturday night….with a family of 7 and no money, my grandfather
would create “Scrumple”for dinner (a name they made up for this dish). This would consist of every little bit of any type of leftovers from that week. They would get out the big black cast iron skillet and dump in all the little leftover bits and then cover it with oatmeal. They would they fry it up and a gourmet meal, or at least that is how my dad remembers it, was created.
kers for dinner and they were grateful for just that little bit. There was not an option to ask for more….there was no more in the cabinet. As a matter of fact there was not a refrigerator or even a stove in the home. Any yet, the memories of these crackers kept her humble and thankful for every little thing she has to this day.
of homemade “kitchen soup”… and we have even had crackers and jelly for a meal on occasion. Trying something new is good and by doing these things….it has reminded me of the friends and family that have taught me life lessons through their stories.
alized when I started working that this was the only thing that kept me out of trouble from double bookings. I was working 3 jobs and of course trying to have a social life. Now fast forward to 30+ years later and here I am still using a planner to keep my sanity….but even better… I use several.
e day and something that I would classify as an accessory. In addition to classifying my planner as an accessory…I love bags (another sign of a planner nerd), earrings, scarves, shoes, bracelets and lipsticks (yes that was plural lipsticks). A planner to me is my life line…not only for keeping my schedule in order, but I faithfully use an A – Z file system for basic notes I need to keep for lists, journal notes, important info you just don’t know where else to store it…. and so much more.
Purple Personal size Malden Filofax. I must admit I am hooked on Filofax anything. I then use a faux Malibu by Franklin Covey for my house binder/planner; I have an A5 Color Crush for my blogs posts and a Travelers notebook that I tried using for my go to ….but now it stares at me for a purpose. I also have a small pocket-size Target planner that I use for my church schedule, notes, and ministries that I am involved in.
le in our home! Stickers and any other goodies that I can use…help me be as creative as I want to be. What goodies do you all use? Where do you like to shop?
I began decorating and using this outlet as a quick creative way to fill my crafter need. Since my days are sooo busy these days and time is short for crafts and scrapbooking…this fills the gap. I now enjoy scrapbooking and making junk journals which for me are much easier than the normal scrapbooking and I love to use Travelers Notebooks for my junk journals. It keeps in small and neat and simple for me.
washi etc… They are piling up and in light of connecting with other planner buddies….I am going to do a give-a-way . I am thankful for this creative outlet and I would like to bless someone with some goodies.
Resume Of A Mother 