a busy mom
and her bullet journal
I apologize for being so quiet lately. I am dealing with some personal stuff at home that require my devoted attention. I am going minimalist for February because I honestly do not have the time to dedicate myself to my bullet journal as much as I would like to, considering my current situation. I will post more as soon as I get a chance. Thank you! And happy journaling everybody!
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Once again, my BuJo® is mostly in Spanish since that is my first language. However, don't dispair since I provide translations where and when needed. For most part, I do not think this is going to be a problem. But I wanted to throw it out there, just in case.
I'm so happy with the way my 2017 BuJo is turning out. I cannot wait to share it with you. It is taking me weeks to get it ready, but that was the idea. I've been taking my time to think things through and to really enjoy preparing it. I'm starting the year with a sky-blue Leuchtturm1917. Even though I do not like the way it ghosts, I am sticking to this notebook. I love its size, its built; it's just perfect for me. I wish it would last me all year, but I know that's not going to happen with everything I'm hoping I'll be able to plan, do, and accomplish in 2017. The year that is about to end has been a very hard one for me and my family. Therefore, I have no other option but be hopeful for what the future might hold. I know that things will not improve overnight, but they can't get any worse. Therefore, I'm shooting for the end of the rainbow and I hope that 2017 is the best year to come, yet. For me, my loved ones, and those of you out there. I'll see you next year! Happy Holidays!
Now this a log that I hope no mother ever has to use. None of us wants to see our little ones getting sick or suffering in any way. But, there are certain things that we should probably track. I know that my mother did when it came to me, especially in those days when we didn't have access to computers and electronic records like we do nowadays.
I've reserved a page in my 2016 bullet journal for tracking any diseases my daugther could contract. So far, I had not had to use it and I keep my fingers crossed. The idea is to keep track of the most common diseases children can get and when they got them. These would be measles, chickenpox, fifth disease, mumps, rubella, Etc. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Just a list of the most common ones under one column, a column for the date (you could use two columns: One for start and another one for end date since some diseases can run for several weeks) and a column for general notes. I'm glad that my mom kept a track of those because when I got pregnant and they ran all the necessary blood tests, one result came back positive. It was for rubella (also known as German measles,) something I had as a kid. I was glad I told them ahead so they wouldn't freak out. But hadn't my mom kept track of those things, with me growing up in one country and now living in another one as an adult, who knows. I might have not been able to give warning to the doctors so they wouldn't worry or call the CDC. Just kidding. You may be thinking what's the point of tracking certain things that seem to have been erradicated, at least in the United States. While I'm no doctor or scientist, some diseases have cycles of decades when they do not show up at all and, all of a sudden, a new generation gets sick with that particular disease that was thought to have been completely eliminated. I don't know. I thought it would be useful and, along with my daughter's vaccine tracker, I created one and I will be referencing (threading) to these on my future bullet journals. One of the things that kept giving me trouble in the last couple of months was the daily habit tracker. With everything that is going at home lately, I keep on forgetting to use it. And this was something that was helping me stay on top of the things that are important to me, for a better quality of life. I loved the weekly style I used to have and that one seemed to have been more effective. But I needed to simplify. It was taking me too much time to set the layout up. And even with my monthly version in opposite to weekly/daily, I'm still spending too much time and tracking basically twice. I need to turn to something more minimalist... now.
December is here already and, as a project manager, I usually have to work in the future, sometimes more than in the present. Therefore, I already had to start my 2017 journal.
I posted on November 1 about the changes I was making for this month due to the fact that I was running out of spreads and I didn't want to start a new notebook for just a couple of spreads. I wanted to share how things were going considering that half of November is already gone. Things That Are Working So Far
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