All of the cleaning and organizing we've been up to has inspired me to try to be organized in other parts of our lives lately. I've finally finished Little Man's medical binder after oh... about four years of thinking about having one. It is a 3 inch binder completely filled with information on every doctor's visit, therapy session, medical bill, and referral we've had over the last nearly five years. Ideally I think I want to streamline it a little more and get rid of some of the older reports that are less important to be dragging from place to place, but for now it is done and going to be a huge help in scheduling and keeping track of what needs to happen and when.
I've also been being much better about our menu-planning and grocery shopping. Every Tuesday night for the last month I've been sitting down (with Hubs if he's around) and cross-checking coupons and sales at our local grocery store. Then with those in mind, I make a weekly meal plan and shop accordingly on Wednesday afternoon when all the sales start. With our switch to more clean-eating and less processed food, we'd been slacking a lot with our couponing and we'd seen a rise in our monthly grocery spending. Now that I'm taking the time to plan and do some basic couponing the night before each trip, we've managed to get our weekly bill down to the same amount of spending we'd been doing when we couponed, plus we're eating much healthier and I'd say about 80% clean.
Between all that and managing to get several of Little Man's major appointments scheduled and/or completed, I've been feeling like a champ lately. I'm trying to savor this flood of energy while I have it, because I know myself and I know how easily I fall into a lazy rut if I let myself. Plus, I vaguely remember being a complete couch-potato during my third trimester last pregnancy, and I'm not sure how much of that was laziness or necessity. Back to work!!
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| Still in the pre-pregnancy jeans. Gotta love "super-low rise" pants! |
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