By popular demand, here are some photos. I purposely didn't straighten everything up because even though my desk is mostly clean, there's nearly always an odd or end I haven't taken care of yet.
Overview of my desk.
Blue Drawer Detail
Inbox and Action List detail. I use the At Home and At Computer the most, so they are in their own slot. All others sit below it.
Tickler. A have a few folders of reference material I access a lot and want handy (i.e. not in the general reference file). This includes the trash/recycling plan and the paper where I jot down notes for the blog that mostly become part of bullet updates.
Project Folders. I reduced these down to two in preparation for the baby. Normally I have 6-10.
General reference files. No pretty, but functional. One step at a time!
At Computer and At Home action lists. I normally don't prioritize, but I put stars down the right side for things that HAD to be done before the birth. Otherwise I'd be tempted with all the things I'd LIKE to do before birth.
Detail showing how the plastic sleeves works.
Thanks for watching! Hope this makes some things clearer.
(These photos refer to blog posts "Life In Review: Celebrating Two Years of Tickler Success: Part I, Part II and Part III.)
Tomorrow my mother arrives. When she leaves we will be a family of four (God willing and the creek don’t rise). Life will never be the same again. That’s a bit scary, but we’re going to have a fabulous time!!
Dec. 24-26: In my 7 Thanks I said as much as that we had a wonderful time around Christmas with family but got sick took most of the week to recover, but recover we did, thankfully.
Dec. 30: I must acknowledge that official “sit-down” homeschooling has begun with Joseph. He loves his alphabet puzzle so much and he loves the alphabet so much that he will often get out his colored pencils and a piece of paper and beg me to write the (upper case) alphabet for him to identify. He likes it when I write the letters in a random order and let him identify them one at a time. In other words, he likes being quizzed at 1 ½!
Jan. 1: Gotte D. came for lunch and we all enjoyed it immensely. I had false labor at the start of her visit, but fortunately that was as exciting as it got.
Jan. 2: Stephan and I cashed in on a voucher from his folks to watch Joseph while we celebrated three years of marriage a night early. We went into Lucerne and enjoyed a dinner out. We got dressed up with heels and tie. I figured it would be the last time in a while. What a three years it’s been! It feels like a lifetime and we had fun trying to recall pre-dating and dating life. Even marriage without kids seems like a distant memory. One thing can be said for sure about how long we’ve been married: not long enough!
Jan. 4: Today I sat reading on the couch while Joseph played with Legos. Next then I knew he’d put every Lego away in the box, put the lid on and put the box back in the shelf where it belongs and then casually turned to something else. I do a lot of picking up with him, and he sees me pick up after myself right away (usually), but somehow it still amazes me when he initiates it himself!
-Today he also did the whole alphabet puzzle by himself (with me watching and cheering him on). The alphabet puzzles is always the first toy he goes for in the morning and after naps. He takes that out and then asks for the number puzzle he got for Christmas saying “hum.”
Jan. 5: Today Joseph pointed to the 9 in his number puzzle and said “nüün” to Stephan and then turned to me and said “nine.” He repeated this, obviously very proud of himself.
-I let (!) Joseph play with a tack and paper that’s on my desk. He successfully pushed the tack through the whole that was already in the paper.
- He’s started to let me know he needs to go potty by walking to the bathroom, grabbing a book and sitting on the pot with his clothes on. We’ve started working on getting his pants off himself, but there’s a ways to go yet. So far he’s waited to go until I’ve helped him get his clothes off. EC has been very on/off and hit/miss. I’m relaxed about it at this point and just potty him when I can and leave him in diapers or training pants otherwise.
