Nice and quiet sunday!

I just love sundays, the only day of the week with no obligations, errands, chores or long to-do lists. The day passes by slowly, while the kids play upstairs with lego and dh plays some kind of civilization game on his laptop. The perfect day to start working on my own christmas gift. I spend more than an hour looking for new inspirational pictures and quotes for my control journal, I found wonderful pictures like this one to make the journal more appealing to the eye and fun to use.

So far I have the following "chapters or tabs" for my journal:
Menu's
Recipes
Homework (lil assignments I do with the boys)
budget
hobbies and decor ideas (free patterns etc)
cleaning scedules (morning/afternoon/night routines and zones)
calender and planners
birthday and holiday card sending list
Miscellaneous
Medical info kids (vaccinations, allergies etc)
Bible and kebra nagast studies (starting january I want to finish both in 2 yrs time)
Blessings ( I use this to write down the lil blessings of daily life)

If anyone thinks of one that would be useful please feel free to share!

I need a new binder, I used a normal ringbinder but that is too small to fit all the recipes and ideas I collect over the year. Being the only girl in this house I want a pretty girly and frilly binder lol one that is not appealing to the lil and big men so no one will be tempted to read and misplace my journal. I am soooo jealous of all you american ladies with all kinds of cute binders and accesoires too put in the binder, I guess I will have to get creative behind the sewingmachine and make a cover for the new binder. I am going to the wholesale tomorrow and intend to spend a good while in the officesupplies section. 2008 is going to be the year of orginazation and making my house a home, so I want to be prepared ;-)

I have always dedicated new years to certain goals somehow it makes it more achievable. 2006 was the year of selfimprovement and stimulation I made a promise to myself to eat healthy and to move a lot more. I also started a special training for the dutch IRS and not only finished it with distinction I was asked to move to a more advance training in order to collect taxes and to make settlements with defaulters (hate that word) I finished that with distinction as well but sadly enough I became severely ill and had to quit. 2007 became the year of finances and gaining a healthy BMI. My BMI is a healthy 24 now and I have never been more pleased with myself LOL I made a plan to pay off all studentloans, debit and creditcards, and to save a lot more than we had been doing before. A week ago I made the last payment to dh his studentloans and most of goals set were achieved. I pray that my goals will be met in 2008 and that life will keep smiling at me and my family. 2008 is also the year I want to start taking balletlessons again and most important 2008 will be by the grace of GOD filled with little blessings! We are expecting 3 babies (no not dh and I but my cousins and my brother and sis-in-law) I am sooo thrilled and I can't wait to cuddle and kiss my sweet lil nieces or nephews. I am demanding to babysit them at least once a month so I will start putting on boxing gloves to fight off cousins and sis-in-law when I run off with their babies ;-P



Blessings,