Friday, February 26, 2010
Mommy business cards and organizing your diaper bag
The other day I met a really nice woman while I was playing with my twins at a local play place. We decided we wanted to meet up again, but I didn’t have a business card with me. My business cards are in my purse, and that morning, I had shoved my wallet into the diaper bag and left my purse at home. I turned this experience into an opportunity, by identifying the problems and solutions inherent in this all-too-common-for-mommies circumstance.
There we’re 3 major lessons that I took from that morning:
1. I should always have my business cards with me.
2. I also should really whip up some of those mommy business cards and have them with me.
3. I discovered I really needed to reorganize my diaper bag. That way I would have a place for my essential items (wallet, business card case, etc.) as well as my twins and avoid having to carry both my purse and the diaper bag.
Here are my solutions to these 3 issues
Solution #1: invest in a second business card case. http://tinyurl.com/yz5j8pd
Solution #2: Make some creative Mommy/Daddy Business Cards: http://tinyurl.com/yz2w46q or Play Date Cards: http://tinyurl.com/yfsj3nw
Solution #3: Rethink the diaper bag/messenger bag
These two items are great for inside your purse or messenger bag if you don’t want to carry a diaper bag:
• A quick zip pouch: http://tinyurl.com/yddjzvq and
• A pull string bag: http://tinyurl.com/y9rel5c
And of course you will also need this:
• A diaper changing pad: http://tinyurl.com/yczml2d
Here’s another option for organizing your diaper bag or messenger bag more efficiently:
• Diaper organizer pouches: http://tinyurl.com/y9nqus4
It really pays off to have less stuff to carry, a better organized bag and handy business or mommy/daddy cards with you in a pinch.
The other day I met a really nice woman while I was playing with my twins at a local play place. We decided we wanted to meet up again, but I didn’t have a business card with me. My business cards are in my purse, and that morning, I had shoved my wallet into the diaper bag and left my purse at home. I turned this experience into an opportunity, by identifying the problems and solutions inherent in this all-too-common-for-mommies circumstance.
There we’re 3 major lessons that I took from that morning:
1. I should always have my business cards with me.
2. I also should really whip up some of those mommy business cards and have them with me.
3. I discovered I really needed to reorganize my diaper bag. That way I would have a place for my essential items (wallet, business card case, etc.) as well as my twins and avoid having to carry both my purse and the diaper bag.
Here are my solutions to these 3 issues
Solution #1: invest in a second business card case. http://tinyurl.com/yz5j8pd
Solution #2: Make some creative Mommy/Daddy Business Cards: http://tinyurl.com/yz2w46q or Play Date Cards: http://tinyurl.com/yfsj3nw
Solution #3: Rethink the diaper bag/messenger bag
These two items are great for inside your purse or messenger bag if you don’t want to carry a diaper bag:
• A quick zip pouch: http://tinyurl.com/yddjzvq and
• A pull string bag: http://tinyurl.com/y9rel5c
And of course you will also need this:
• A diaper changing pad: http://tinyurl.com/yczml2d
Here’s another option for organizing your diaper bag or messenger bag more efficiently:
• Diaper organizer pouches: http://tinyurl.com/y9nqus4
It really pays off to have less stuff to carry, a better organized bag and handy business or mommy/daddy cards with you in a pinch.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
My twins are walking now, and no surprise, they have become quite skilled at getting into things!
The mother in me is proud to say they work together as a team. But I have to admit, they create enough of a mess to have the organizer in me stopped in my tracks!
Their team spirit looks like this: When they set about to empty the bookshelf in their nursery, my daughter is in charge of unloading the books and handing them to my son by one-by-one (he delightedly scatters them about the floor) until the bookshelf is empty. Then, all those pesky books out of the way, she attempts to climb the bookcase! As a result, there are books strewn across the bedroom floor making things very slippery and hazardous. In an effort to not let my organizer persona get in the way of their playfulness and obvious delight, I let them dismantle their room in just this fashion every night. Every evening before lights out, after I put them into their cribs, my job has been put all the books back on the bookshelf and the dirty clothes back in the hamper. Then I lovingly remove their tiny dirty socks from the sock drawer (my son thinks he is helping by putting them back into the drawer).
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me how to keep their kids’ rooms clean! And my own kids’ nightly ransacking of the bookshelf got me thinking even more about what I should tell my clients to do about the mess. The easiest solution is to purchase light weight, kid-friendly bins to store on the bookshelf: http://tinyurl.com/yckdh4m.
This way I can pull them down for them at night, and they can put the books back into the bins at the end of the night. As for the dirty socks in the drawers? Well, I’m still working on that one!
The mother in me is proud to say they work together as a team. But I have to admit, they create enough of a mess to have the organizer in me stopped in my tracks!
Their team spirit looks like this: When they set about to empty the bookshelf in their nursery, my daughter is in charge of unloading the books and handing them to my son by one-by-one (he delightedly scatters them about the floor) until the bookshelf is empty. Then, all those pesky books out of the way, she attempts to climb the bookcase! As a result, there are books strewn across the bedroom floor making things very slippery and hazardous. In an effort to not let my organizer persona get in the way of their playfulness and obvious delight, I let them dismantle their room in just this fashion every night. Every evening before lights out, after I put them into their cribs, my job has been put all the books back on the bookshelf and the dirty clothes back in the hamper. Then I lovingly remove their tiny dirty socks from the sock drawer (my son thinks he is helping by putting them back into the drawer).
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me how to keep their kids’ rooms clean! And my own kids’ nightly ransacking of the bookshelf got me thinking even more about what I should tell my clients to do about the mess. The easiest solution is to purchase light weight, kid-friendly bins to store on the bookshelf: http://tinyurl.com/yckdh4m.
This way I can pull them down for them at night, and they can put the books back into the bins at the end of the night. As for the dirty socks in the drawers? Well, I’m still working on that one!
