Family Calendar management

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.

Ericka Kammerer wrote in
:

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 ;-)

yup. i know mine was over 10 years ago now, but what year it
was is, well, no longer really relevant despite the permanant
back injury. i held the kid's drivers license for over 5
years, but i figured that by 22 he *might* be smart enough to
tell the brake from the gas pedal...
lee besides, i understand the usefulness of having a car to
getting a job

On Apr 4, 4:24 pm, "Claire" wrote:

*snip*

How are you tracking this sort of thing these days? A big piece of
paper in the kitchen? Electronically? Mom's head?

Warm Regards,

Claire
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In our household, it's rather a strange situation because DH and I
live 85 miles away from one another and we only see each other on the
weekends (long story, but it's employment-related-- I had to go where
the jobs are). The grownups each have a work planner (mine is a
separate page for each day). We pretty much just keep track of our
own stuff, except if it's something that the other person has to be
involved in, in which case we'll call or e-mail the other person and
it'll then end up in both calendars.

Of course, Hypatia is only just shy of three (two more weeks) so she's
not involved in extracurriculars. I don't know what will happen when
she's older.

-Andrea

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 ;-)

fair enough, I'm guessing that you'd remember enough to calculate the year
and month it happened, though I guess as life goes on that might be more
tricky.

Anne

Anne Rogers wrote:
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 ;-)

fair enough, I'm guessing that you'd remember enough to calculate the year
and month it happened, though I guess as life goes on that might be more
tricky.

Believe me, it gets much more tricky! If it didn't happen
near a move or a birth or something like that, it's very unlikely
I'll figure it out. When the kids get older, there's not this
huge difference from year to year. No way would I be able to narrow
it accurately to a month for most things, unless maybe they happened
very near a holiday--but even then I might not get the year! E.g.,
I'll know something happened near Christmas, but won't know which
Christmas. I'm quite loosely situated in time ;-)

Best wishes,
Ericka