The Encouraging Habit of Keeping a Done List

This alternative for to-do lists and bullet journals will have you going to bed with a smile.

We’ve all kept to-do lists at some point or another. Whether it’s a post it of things to do today, an app devoted to the process, or series of lists in a paper planner we write down what we need to do.

To-do lists are popular because they are so dang effective. It’s hard to keep a mental list in our head, so we write it down, do it, cross it off. Boom. Bam. Bang.

The problem with to do lists, it that they are rarely ever done. At the end of the day, we look at our list and realize we didn’t bring back the nearly due library books or get in that 7-minute workout and we suddenly feel like our day was a failure.

Oral Math Skill Cards for Young Elementary Students

Here are the oral math practice cards that I will be using with my younger elementary students. My goal is to give my kids opportunities for concrete math practice without steamrolling them with math drill worksheets.

Materials List and Assembly

Free Printable ABC Memory Verses for Families

I like sharing good things. Today I want to share one of the best things that I did with my oldest son when we first began homeschooling: we memorized an alphabet of verses in 25 days. I was surprised at how quickly we internalized these verses and that we were both able to pull up these verses for a long time afterwards.

Better than a BUJO? This Scheduling Habit is a Gamechanger

Like most American adults I have had a lot on my plate for a long time, which means dozens of tasks to juggle in a given day. The busiest time of my life has been the last few years, when I included homeschooling into my daily routine.

So, on a typical day I have the feeding, clothing, and care of a family, the education of a middle schooler, elementary schooler, and preschooler, the upkeep of a home that is probably cursed. (The thing just gets grungy and dusty and cluttered all of the time. I clean the thing and poof it’s a disaster again.) There are a million things associated with those tasks that can keep a person’s days full for a lifetime and a half.

I spent my days doing and making lists of things to do so I wouldn’t wake up at night just to remember that I had forgotten something. I would flop on the couch sometimes unable to do anything because it was overwhelming how many things that I had done and how many days I had worked all day only to feel like I had missed some mark, because I wasn’t really sure how to aim correctly in the first place.