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Family Calendar management
toypup wrote:
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:33:48 EDT, Chookie wrote: In article . com, "Claire" wrote: How are you tracking this sort of thing these days? A big piece of paper in the kitchen? Electronically? Mom's head? MY computer calendar (which synchs with my Palm) is THE CALENDAR. If it isn't in THE CALENDAR, it isn't happening. DH does of course have a diary for work, but my diary tracks all engagements that impinge on family life (eg, his evening meetings). LOL. My Palm is my brain. When they break, I am lost. My sister keeps losing her palm pilot. I keep some phone numbers in my cell phone, and for the rest I have an address book. ATM, we write Drs appointments on the calendar that is on the wall - the one I make up every year which has everyone's birthdays and anniversaries on it, and that's all the keeping track that we need to do. After the kids had left home I had a small yearly calendar (about 3.5x2") and I wrote my office days and field visits down in it, and later used that to make out daysheets (we had to do day sheets, and weeklies which accounted for every minute of time). I had a separate mileage book of about the same size for filling out the expense account. DH did his own thing. When I was teaching, I had a big planning book, but that was for lesson planning. Otherwise, I wasn't working and we all did the same thing at about the same time and I could keep that in my head. And I do keep the calendars - especially the ones where all the births and anniversaries are because among other things they have photographs of everyone at various stages in life. But I even keep my little work booklets because after awhile things tend to merge into each other. When did I have the auto accident? When was the last time I went to the dermatologist? |
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On Apr 4, 3:24 pm, "Claire" wrote:
I was wondering how people manage family calendars. I can put things on my husband's home calendar with my work calendar, but his home and work calendars are separate. The girls maintain paper calendars to track their own lessons and homework. Lately, what seems to be working for us is to have an excel spreadsheet up on google's spreadsheet sharing system, accessible by all family members. The spreadsheet is a monthly calendar. In it are things like my business trips, my husband's professional classes, the kids' lessons and rehearsals, etc. It means I have to re-enter everything from Outlook, but that's the way that goes. How are you tracking this sort of thing these days? A big piece of paper in the kitchen? Electronically? Mom's head? We use a regular size calendar hanging in the kitchen and it seems to work just fine. Anything more sophisticated seems like more worth than it's worth. We also have the rule that if it isn't on the calendar, don't expect anyone else to plan around it, unless it's a known recurring event. Many recurring events, like after school clubs, are only put on the calendar for the first month or so until they are just integrated into our routine. I usually only put the event and the time. Any other details are usually left on the original literature (school newsletter, wedding announcement, etc) and those items are kept in a folder in a drawer underneath. Some days, the squares get a little full, but I use that as a sign that we're over scheduled and we often have to skip something. I do write the conflicting activities on the calendar though, in case the higher priority activity gets cancelled for some reason. I have a good memory for dates, especially once I've written it down once, so when we have a family activity that I need to leave work for, it's easy for me to remember to also add it to my work calendar. The only work activities that need to be on the family calendar are when I need to travel out of town, which is only 2-3 times a year. Annie |
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"Chookie" wrote in message ... In article . com, "Claire" wrote: How are you tracking this sort of thing these days? A big piece of paper in the kitchen? Electronically? Mom's head? MY computer calendar (which synchs with my Palm) is THE CALENDAR. If it isn't in THE CALENDAR, it isn't happening. DH does of course have a diary for work, but my diary tracks all engagements that impinge on family life (eg, his evening meetings). That's exactly how we do it. Down to Palm Zire that came free with a set of tires. The tires are long gone, the Zire is still running like a champ. We sync to the free Yahoo Calendar. And if it's not on there, it's not happening. Cathy -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled." Kerry Cue |
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"Sue" wrote in message
news:t7Odnb_ECMEOR4nbnZ2dnUVZ_oernZ2d@wideopenwest .com... One big calendar on the fridge is what we do. Works for us. I update it every month and I can add or take away things if needed. Yep, the calendar on the fridge. Ours is a big white-board and each week is a separate strip. There's 5 strips altogether. When the top week is over, I erase it and stick it on the bottom and push the rest of them up. I love it! It also has Saturday AND Sunday on the end instead of Sunday at the beginning. I do have my own calendar, which is a notebook(paper) style, but the whole family uses the fridge calendar. Marie |
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On Apr 6, 8:37 am, "Marie" wrote:
Yep, the calendar on the fridge. Ours is a big white-board and each week is a separate strip. There's 5 strips altogether. When the top week is over, I erase it and stick it on the bottom and push the rest of them up. I love it! It also has Saturday AND Sunday on the end instead of Sunday at the beginning. I do have my own calendar, which is a notebook(paper) style, but the whole family uses the fridge calendar. Marie Another calendar on the fridge user here. For about 5 years I've been using something called Mom's Calendar - you can see it he http://www.amazon.com/Moms-Family-Ca.../dp/0761140492 It's in a table form with a column for each family member and a row for each day of the month. Plenty of room to write things in. For my own things and so I can carry it around, I have a week-at-a- glance book. I duplicate some things between the 2 calendars. And my son, a high school junior, has gotten busy enough that he recently asked for a week-at-a-glance book of his own. I haven't wanted to use computer calendars or a PDA. -- Zip |
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We do a paper month-by-month calendar hanging next to the fridge. I also have a little (2.7" x 4") pocket calendar for my own use for work appointments. I put my regular weekly meetings up on a web page for my lab group, but otherwise avoid electronic calendars like the plague. "Corporate" calendars that allow some random staff person to schedule your time are particularly pernicious---I've made sure that I do NOT get signed up for any of those. ------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin Karplus http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz Undergraduate and Graduate Director, Bioinformatics (Senior member, IEEE) (Board of Directors & Chair of Education Committee, ISCB) life member (LAB, Adventure Cycling, American Youth Hostels) Effective Cycling Instructor #218-ck (lapsed) Affiliations for identification only. |
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When did I have the auto accident?
never? if I start having to record that I'll start having to worry, any kind of auto accident should be a significant enough and rare enough event that the date stands out. Anne |
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"Anne Rogers" wrote:
When did I have the auto accident? never? if I start having to record that I'll start having to worry, any kind of auto accident should be a significant enough and rare enough event that the date stands out. Well it did stand out (I broke 4 ribs and the car was totaled by a driver with no insurance or license who ran a red light), but when asked, I can't remember the exact year. Most of the time, I can date stuff after counting forwards and backwards by the births (or in one case the death) or graduations or marriages of my children and grandchildren and by where we lived at the time. But the auto accident wasn't tied to any of those things. |
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Anne Rogers wrote:
When did I have the auto accident? never? if I start having to record that I'll start having to worry, any kind of auto accident should be a significant enough and rare enough event that the date stands out. If you're like me, just because the event stands out in your mind doesn't mean that you also remember the date it happened ;-) Best wishes, Ericka |
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Ericka Kammerer wrote:
Anne Rogers wrote: When did I have the auto accident? never? if I start having to record that I'll start having to worry, any kind of auto accident should be a significant enough and rare enough event that the date stands out. If you're like me, just because the event stands out in your mind doesn't mean that you also remember the date it happened ;-) Best wishes, Ericka Right - when the doctor asks me the dates when I was in the hospital etc., I can remember operations and childbirths and dh's heart attack but not the dates of all my ER visits.. Although when I was coaching I used to have a problem with the birthdates of the children on the swim team. Sometimes the moms with multiple kids (over 2) didn't know. (The kids always knew of course.) When I had the fourth one, I started to have that trouble too - I was unsure of his actual birthdate for quite a long time. I could remember the year and the month, but had a problem with the day. He's 36, and I think I have it down now. But I never had a problem with figuring out who was doing what when. By the time I was working, at least one child was driving, and mostly they took care of it themselves. And before that we all mostly did the same thing at the same time, with the little ones tagging along with the bigger ones. Of course it helped that we did absolutely NO team sports. NONE. My dd#2 who has two children in two different levels of multiple team sports and lessons and is an airline pilot so she doesn't work a standard 9-5 schedule does use a kitchen calendar. |
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