Keeper of the Home..

So, not a great picture - I need a new digital camera, need as in one day I will get a new digital camera, but I digress. This is a pictures of my Management book I don't think of myself as manager in the push-over-boss since, but I am manging the home. I am my home's keeper and in the home I over see the goings on. I love that this is my,"job," a calling I did not always so willingly embrace. Now by the Grace of God, I see that who I am (a Wife & Mother) is truly the best "job," ever and that being keep of my house is a GREAT thing! But with that comes a great responsibility. More or less stress often depends upon weather or not I, WIFE/MOM, am doing her job well and efficently.

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So, do you have a management folder, binder? While I do not think it is a mandatory, must-have item in the home I know that I love it when I can go to one specific place and pull out my binder and go for whatever I need at that moment with out fussing and stressing over,"where it should be." So, I encourage you to pray about and seek the Lord's will, and that if this is something he would have do or not to be better organized and if so, that you would do it. For our family it makes things run smoother if I am on top of the schedule, know where to go for recipes to do meals that are healthy and quick as well as have other items like taxes and shot records on hand.

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So, what goes in a Home binder? book?

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Well first of all as you see I have a page I created and stuck in the front. I put,"King Household Management Book," on it, but you can title it Smith's Binder of stuff or whatever you wish. I, personally, also put a scripture on the front to remind me the why of it all. Why am I doing this binder/book, because me and my family will serve GOD and this is one of the small way to do that. Because in my can we know that when Mom is organized and knows where things are, she can help DAD or SON when things like shedules or shot records are needed saving everyone time and stress and therefore being the woman, mom, she is called to be.

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Secondly, I get the colored tabs for my folder, but maybe you make your own or whatever, point being - there should be sections. You tabs may look like this:

Statement of Faith for Our Family (Our is on the front)

Calenders (Master Schedule)

Chore lists (Great site for lists and charts is http://www.chartjungle.com/)

Marriage Lic.

Birth Certificates

Taxes

Pay Stubs (in our case L.E.S. = Leave and Earnsing Statement)

Medical

Food

Biblical Studies (however you would title this section)

Parenting

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And some have homeschooling included in this binder but personally, I would seperate it since there will be lots of information going in that particular folder one would assume and hope. But you get the point, it whatever sections will make finding things for YOU, easier!

And that my friends, Ladies, is how to do a Home Management Book.

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I hope that if you already are doing this, that it is working splendidly for you and if not that you would prayerfully seek if this is something God would have you do. ~ Blessings, Ashley