A peek into my binder:)

I have a ton of pages of web sites that I like to use when I need to look
something up. My first page of web sites is toxic and non-toxic plants.
Then Internet links for health and safety. And last, helpful home school
websites. These are the ones I love:) Here are a couple of my favorites:
http://www.free.ed.gov/index.cfm
http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/
http://www.freemathworksheets.net/
http://www.softschools.com/

Check them out! And enjoy........

My school charts section includes a multiplication/division facts table,

basic use of capital letters, basic punctuation marks, Branches of

Government, Levels of Government, common misused words, suffixes

and prefixes, charts on Presidents, tables of common measurement,

lists of sight words and some math tables.

Auhh, the meat of the binder! The part that I don't have quite down

yet. This part is for scheduling your cleaning, kids chores and I have

home made cleaning recipes that I have been experimenting with. This
is my cleaning section.

I only have two recipes in this section so far. This section is meant to

include recipes you have just encountered and want to try out. If after

trying them, you like them, then remove from the binder and place in a

special recipe box etc. You don't want your binder to get to

overcrowded. If you have any good recipes, please share them. I love

to try new things.

I like to keep track of what the kids are reading as well as myself. I think it is a great way to look at the end of the year and see our progress. It is a great motivator for the kids also.


Side view of my binder. I have almost everything inserted into plastic

sheet protectors to of course protect the pages. With the kids, things

are always prone to spill:)

The first half of my binder is all about my homeschooling and the last

half is my home management.

I have to have the pens. Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a penaholic. These pouches are nice for some storage especially if you take your binder elsewhere to work on it.

~Home Managment Binder~

Creating your binder can be a life saver if you are like me and scatter brained. I guess having ADD doesn't always help that either. That is why creating this binder has helped me in many ways. I needed help with organization and just keeping on task with certain areas during the day such as tackling the cleaning. I saw that I was one of those that cleaned all day long and it didn't look like it. I was scattered all over the house and doing the same things over and over like picking up things off the floor, washing dishes when there were some in the sink and sweeping etc. With a home managment binder you can tackle the visible things and also those areas that seem almost impossible to get to like cleaning out your fridge! One thing I hate to do and by looking at it, you can tell. And organizing closets, scrubbing things that you may scrub once a year because you just don't have time.

I have my home and homeschool binder all in one. This works for me but you may choose to have two seperate ones. For each section I just typed the title and added some of my clip art. The same for the binder cover although this will eventually change. I love to scrapbook so when things are settled down and moving is done, I want to make a nice scrapbook page for the front of the binder.

For more information on home managment binders visit these websites,

http://www.titus2.com/ecommerce/products/prod_listing.php/1100?review=0

http://www.flylady.com/pages/cjmain.asp

http://myblessedhome.blogspot.com/2006/11/my-home-management-binder.html#article

These are a few that I know of. The very first link (Keeping the home), scroll down Candy's blog and click on some of her friends blogs to look at some other binders ladies have made. It's neat to gain and share ideas between each other. Make this binder your life and your love. Spend some time making it and be creative. It is alot of fun! I will post some pictures of mine but I am always tweaking it some.

What does your binder look like?