Busy Body Book: Organization Help for Moms! Giveaway
As the school year was getting closer, I started to realize all that my family was going to have going on. And that it was going to be up to me to keep it all straight and get everywhere where they needed to be, when they needed to be there, and with what they needed to have.
Right side:
You decide if you want to assign each column to a person or to a specific area like "Dinner" or "Blogging" or "Workouts." I love that it's customizable and that there is plenty of room to write in plans for different people/topics.
This week, only one of my children had school and soccer, so it wasn't quite as frantic as it's going to get, but I still had quite a bit to keep track of- including reminding myself that I needed to post this review and giveaway! Once school is in full swing, our schedule will be even busier.
I'm extremely happy with my BusyBodyBook. Thanks, Joan! And thanks to Melissa for suggesting them!
You can download free BBB Weekly Grids to try them out for yourself. Show them a little love and Like them on facebook, too!
GIVEAWAY: One of you will win the BusyBodyBook product of your choice.
Products include: BusyBodyBook Academic Year Calendar, BusyBodyBook Calendar Year, 7 Column BusyBodyBook Undated Weekly Grid Pad, and a Weekly Wall Calendar.
Open to US only, this giveaway will close at 9pm ET on 8/28. Winner will be notified via email and have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. If your email is not visible in your profile, please leave it with your entries.
Mandatory Entry: Leave a comment telling me why you need help getting organized!
Additional Entries:
*Follow Things I Can't Say GFC
*Follow @busybodybooks on twitter and leave your username
I received a BBB for review purposes. No other compensation was provided and all opinions are my own.
This giveaway is now closed and the winner is #60 Jessica at My Simply Complicated.
- 3 boys in 3 different school with 3 different schedules, 3 different lunch/snack issues... field trips, special days, etc
- weekly speech therapy
- weekly OT
- 2 different soccer teams
- storytime
- Karate, gymnastics, Boy Scouts (things my boys are trying to talk me into)
- random stuff they want/need to do(b/c that covers anything I'm leaving out)
Plus making sure that I have time to grocery shop, blog, and get myself to the gym. I knew I couldn't keep it all straight without some sort of organizer. So, I asked twitter because twitter knows all for some suggestions for planners.
I received a few different responses and looked at all of them. Not only did I need something that would help me stay organized, but I almost needed something that fit my budget. My friend Melissa from Peanut Butter in My Hair had suggested a BusyBodyBook, a personal and family grid organizer. It seemed to have all I needed AND be reasonably priced (products range from $12.95-17.95).
Oops, I guess I better take my son's birth certificate out of the pocket now that I've shown it to his school. Just noticed that in this pic.
I was planning to order one the next day. But before I could, Joan, the publisher of BusyBodyBook Organizers, contacted me and we talked a little about what scheduling/organization challenges my family had. She offered to send me any one of their products to try out.
I selected the Academic AUG 11 - AUG 12 BusyBodyBook Personal & Family Organizer in Cherry so that I could start using it right away.
Left side of the weekly page:
Right side:
You decide if you want to assign each column to a person or to a specific area like "Dinner" or "Blogging" or "Workouts." I love that it's customizable and that there is plenty of room to write in plans for different people/topics.
This week, only one of my children had school and soccer, so it wasn't quite as frantic as it's going to get, but I still had quite a bit to keep track of- including reminding myself that I needed to post this review and giveaway! Once school is in full swing, our schedule will be even busier.
I'm extremely happy with my BusyBodyBook. Thanks, Joan! And thanks to Melissa for suggesting them!
You can download free BBB Weekly Grids to try them out for yourself. Show them a little love and Like them on facebook, too!
GIVEAWAY: One of you will win the BusyBodyBook product of your choice.
Products include: BusyBodyBook Academic Year Calendar, BusyBodyBook Calendar Year, 7 Column BusyBodyBook Undated Weekly Grid Pad, and a Weekly Wall Calendar.
Open to US only, this giveaway will close at 9pm ET on 8/28. Winner will be notified via email and have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. If your email is not visible in your profile, please leave it with your entries.
Mandatory Entry: Leave a comment telling me why you need help getting organized!
Additional Entries:
*Follow Things I Can't Say GFC
*Follow @busybodybooks on twitter and leave your username
I received a BBB for review purposes. No other compensation was provided and all opinions are my own.
This giveaway is now closed and the winner is #60 Jessica at My Simply Complicated.
posted by Shell at
10:35 AM
132 Comments:
this is AMAZING!! i need help (on so many levels) - between working from home, organizing family meals, taking care of the little on and SO.MUCH.MORE. this would majorly helpful. THANKS!
My mom would LOVE this! And with a new baby on the way, we know she needs it. :) I love how it can be so personalized, too!
Oh goodness ... I need this DESPERATELY. I have so much going on in my life and my blog is growing and my etsy shop will open soon ... I need organizational help! HELP!
Thanks for the giveaway. :)
I follow you, lady!
I follow Busy Body Books on twitter!
(@mamamarchand)
I love this! I am in desperate need of a new organizer. With another one on the way and with more appointments coming up, along with school and activities. This would help!
Follow you on GFC! Thanks!
Between school and work, I have trouble keeping track of everything.
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I need help for sure getting organized. With full time work, children, husband, housework, appointments, elderly parents to help out. The list goes on and on.
Maryann
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I love me some organization tools! With a daughter starting college, a son starting middle school, working for Hubby and coordinating care and appointments for my mom, I need these! :)
I am following you! :)
Sorry Shell - the above comment shud have been that I am following BBB! Twitter handle: @simplyasandwich
I need help organizing, because I can one up you on your kids schedules. I have four active kids. 3 different schools(next year will be 4), 2 playing select(traveling) soccer, one in Marching Band, babysitting 4, and much, much more.
I stalk you
oneandonlyoka is following @busybodybooks on twitter
I could definitely use one of those!! I am having serious trouble with organization lately...I just moved back to New York and I start law school on Monday!! That's enough reason to panic in itself, but I also have to balance dinners, groceries [we don't have a car so it's a lot more difficult than you'd imagine], boyfriend time, CASA [I volunteer], blogging, Russian [I am learning the language], cleaning the house & craft time. I'm sure there's more I can't even think of at the moment! My current planner is always crammed full and I run out of space!! I would love to win :) And I've been a follower :)
Linda
http://lasteve1.blogspot.com
With my daughter now in Preschool, I need to remember when to pick her up :)
But seriously, I just need help with my memory. Every since I had kids, I don't have one.
Wow, this thing is awesome. I used to use a Franklin planner for home and a planner I created myself for teaching. Then I started doing virtual calendars on my computer so I could sync my home and work life, but there is that old-fashioned girl in me that still loves pencil and paper.
This is the first year since my older son was born that he and his brother will both be in two separate schools with separate schedules AND I'm going back to teaching one day a week! I have a sense that I'm going to need a planner of some kind that will sort this all out. Perhaps this BusyBodyBook will be just the ticket!
Um yeah I used to be super organized, but now as a SAHM it has gone to the dogs. So I need the yearly calendar :)
And already a follower on GFC!
Oh lord I need this! I am back home after 3 years working, and have decided to home school all of them! I must be nuts!
And I love following you on GFC!
I would LOVE something like this! I had 4 kids within four and a half years, and this year we'll be in two different schools. My twins will have a rotating school schedule and I am seriously worried about keeping track! I found you through Kristen (A Little Something For Me) and I'm excited to read more!
And I'm now following :)
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I need this to organize my sons preschool schedule, soccer schedule {as Im team mom} and all my blog stuff. I love the bright colors as well
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I so need this..as a mother of 3, wife, employee, cook, etc..I need something to keep me in line! Thanks!
I am feeling frantic about organizing my time now that school is starting...my son will only be in preschool for 2 1/2 hours (it used to be 5 hours!) and my daughter gave up the morning nap, so my work time is dwindling fast. So far, no takers on my babysitting job. I hope I'm not working all night to get my work done this fall. Every minute's gonna count!
Between buying a house, school for 2 kids, babysitting job, dr's appts, soccer schedule, t-ball schedule... yeah... I need this!
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I have followed busybodybook on twitter.
I happily follow you on GFC!
I have a three year old and a husband...I think that's a good reason ;) I am a very organized/planned person and would love one of these!
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I have an addiction to planners and this one looks AMAZING!! :) It would definatley help me now that both of my boys are in school. Not to mention keeping track of all my doctor appointments and when hubby will be gone hunting :)
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This looks AWESOME! I am constantly trying to organize my life better and have started using my calendar on my phone, but it doesn't have an area for dinner ideas,to do notes, blog ideas. I have 2 girls, both in dance, 1 also in soccer. I am working towards a master degree and work full time. I need to be able to plan outings and keep up with the schedule as well as schedule time to keep up with my large "outer" family. Thanks for this post! I'm glad I'm not the only one that scrambles for better ways to organize!
I have so many appointments, meetings, blog entres to plan, meals to plan, more meetings, etc. Very busy life to sort out between work and home!
Already follow you on GFC.
I just started working again. I have 1 kid in 1st grade and a 1 year and my husband is also busy and works outside of the home. This would be a great way to keep track of everything!
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I need all the help I can get when it comes to organizing. I currently have a planner, but it doesn't have nearly as many columns as this one does. With my youngest now also getting more involved in activities, I could definitely use this!
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I follow @busybodybooks on twitter
@_MamaJules_
Oh, I need this. I've realized that I'm in desperate need of an organizational system ever since I missed one doctor's appointment earlier this summer and was then an hour late for another one after jotting down the wrong time, probably on a scarp of paper. I buy a planner every January, but it never makes it past February because it inevitably fails to actually keep me organized. I need something comprehensive. Like this!
Also, I follow you via e-mail. Hope that counts!
And I'm now following @busybodybooks on Twitter - @SaidKristin
I have 3 kids myself and hubby to mke appt. for I could realy use this
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lizavla
LOVE THIS!!
I need organization in my life in the worst way. I have three different stages of boyhood in my house 8,5,1. The older two play sports, the baby and I will be in a mommy and me class. I'm new to blogging and REALLY need to start out organized or I fear it will fall through the cracks.
Oh and did I tell you that I have been asked to be on the Parents Board at the preschool.
So yes...organization PLEASE!
I love being organized and fell by the wayside this past year. But now with Miss K in school and Little E in preschool my schedule is overloaded. Not to mention keeping track of Miss K's dance classes three days a week, plus my SAC & PTA meetings, midweek church functions and doctors appointments. Yikes! I am just overwhelmed reading my own list.
I like to put pen to paper and my iPhone calendar just doesn't cut keeping me organized!
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I need this for the same reason I need the Purse Profector. Haha!
Seriously, though, I'm really trying hard to get my life back in order. It's so easy to slip out of "control" of your life and this planner would make things easier.
I can see my columns already - The Frilly Coconut, Personal, School (if that becomes an option this fall), and Dearest.
I follow you via GFC!
I now follow BBB on Twitter!
@mycomplicated
I am already following you and am now following BBB on Twitter. This organizer sounds amazing!
Wow! I'd love to have one of these to help organize my new business schedule as well as to help me get back on a regular blogging schedule. As much as I've tried to use online calendars - I think it just helps to write it down for me. Maybe I'm just that kind of person. If I write it down - I remember it much better. :)
Thanks for the chance to win one! :)
~Jacque~
I follow you on GFC and have been for a while. :) Love your blog!
~Jacque~
stanwoodplayschool@gmail.com
I am now follow Busy Body Books on Twitter as @get2scrappin
~Jacque~
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Love this, I need one of these to keep myself sane this year as two more start school.
Umm yeah we are busy.
And yes I use any organizational tool I can find.
I already follow you on GFC!
I follow @busybodybooks on twitter
@makingitworkmom
I love this! I think this would be awesomely handy with all my kids :)
I follow you on GFC
I follow BBB on Twitter- @tatertwins
I am always forgetting stuff, from bills, to appointments, to birthdates. it's horrible and sometimes embarrassing. I need help. And maybe a miracle pill. :P
And I follow you.
I need help organizing because I am a Mom to 3, a student, a Girl Scout leader and my 2 sons play sports. It is so hard to keep up with everyone.
I need help organizing because I an a newly married woman who is beyond busy trying to make sure everything is in order for this new life. We got adult soccer schedules, 1st and 2nd job schedules, dinner menu schedules, need to keep track of what items I have changed my name over on and find time to unpack all the wedding gifts and organize them in a small condo. Its so hard to find a planner that would do that.
I have been following you on GFC for awhile now :)
Hellooooo! I can't wait to win one of these! Explored that other one [myAgenda] and it's like a freakin' bible. Heavy. This one looks divine. I've downloaded the September sheets - and the babysitter info - so awesome!
OF COURSE I follow you.
I am always on the hunt for organizational help. Juggling changing custody schedules, preschool field trips, traveling between buildings for work...keeping track of mileage, Zumba classes and soon I'll be adding dance classes for Lil Duck I could for sure use these products!
I am a GFC follower...fo sho!
Cute and efficient--I love it. I need as much help as I can get with my crazy life!
Why do I need to stay organized? Cuz I have 7 Sweet Chili Peppers and they all have crazy schedules! Not to mention my own crazy schedule, or my mommy-forgetful-brain that can't remember anything if I don't write it down... plus when I am organized on paper, it helps me keep things out of my head, which helps me sleep, which helps me be a better mommy to my Peppers!
This is so nice! I may only have a family of three but our schedules are packed with work, school, Girl Scuots (Im Assistant Leader, karate, and so on it's very hard to keep it all together! Please help!
I am a Single mom of 3- full time job- gymnastics, volleyball, soccer, piano, guitar, church, prison vellowship- I need help
Well, I was going to tell you how super unorganized I am. After 2 kids 15 months apart...My oldest is 4 and I'm just getting the hang of it. Both in preschool with countless activities and I'm my daughters room parent. As well as a board member for a Childrens Museum that we are hoping to open in the next three years. We just need some financial support. Looks like I just told you anyway. Well, I would love to WIN a BBB but it looks like some other mothers could use it more than me. I really just want to thank you for sharing this organizational Amazement...I will be purchasing one anyway!
I need help getting organized because if I don't get organized, I'm sure I'll lose a child somewhere along the way!
Love these books!
Work, school, after school activities, volunteering, doctor's appointments, orthodontist, vet, babysitter . . . .AAHHH> too much to keep track of. I need something to help me stay organized.
astormer@comcast.net
I need help getting organized because of all the appointments, blogging etc that I have and I never remember. This looks great.
kport207 at gmail dot com
what great products! I would love the BusyBodyBook Academic year! My son just started school and I have a baby onthe way so It will be a good place to keep his stuff as well as upcoming appt for me.
kim@cfg-greens.com
thanks!
love your blog!
I have two calendars and it is hard to juggle both without rewriting information. I need a much simpler system and this looks like a great answer to my problem.
Oh gosh! I'd love to win this! I'm an organization freak! My oldest just started Kindergarten and I'm now a Room Mom, plus I work, plus I have to get to the gym, plan playdates for my 1 yr old, blog, see friends from time to time and this organizer would just be great for keeping track of all of that! Hope I win. I'm now a follower as well, so that's 2 entries, plus headed to Twitter right now to become a follower (3 entries). you can follow me @morgalicious483 on Twitter. www.momma-licious.blogspot.com
Oh my gosh... this looks great! I have one son in middle school who made the middle school soccer team- they don't tell you school sports are even more scheduling/demanding than others! Then I have a daughter involved in girl scouts and my own life. I could use these!
Lorie9902@yahoo.com
That looks awesome! I have tried all sorts of planners, technology, and so forth, and I can't find anything that helps me keep it all in one place. We also have therapy appts. out the wazzoo, HS group activities, PE, Piano, Bible Study Group, Yoga, my own sanity breaks, homeschooling a 13 yr. old and a 7 yr. old, blah blah blah...Need I say more? I love the columns that can be assigned to each child!
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I follow Busy body! :)
I need this so that there is less stress in my life :)
Karen Gonyea
ktgonyea at gmail.com
Between work, kids school, kids activities, and everything else I need some organization.
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I'm joining the little ones going back to school this year - I have way too much going on for my horrible memory! I'd love this!
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I love this, and it would be amazing to have one. Plus it is a notebook, and I love all things notebooks. And they're cute. :)
And ... I follow you. :)
Oh and the mandatory entry.
My husband and I work opposite schedules and now that my oldest is starting kindergarten there are going to be *gasp* expectations and deadlines and paperwork.
and not to mention that I have my own paperwork for my school and I am NEVER on top of that (maybe because of the black hole that is my desk and my mommy brain).
So. there you have it. :)
My son has school,therapy,doc appointments, and play dates.
I need this to stay organized with dates.
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my kids are starting school next week and there is a lot going on in our house. i've tried other org products but none are aimed at moms. would love to try this!
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I need an organizer...because I'm a totally unorganized person-who is always forgetting appts!
Diane Baum
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why do i need help getting organized? hmmm... well... because i'm disabled and 'involved' with several.. SEVERAL.. state agencies... and each of them has different renewal requirements, on different schedules with different information and different lists of acceptable documentation. in effect, i've got roughly two 'audits' to perform each month... i can DEFINITELY use some help keeping it organized!
I need all the help I can get, I'm always forgetting things and rely on my day-planner so much, this would make a huge difference!
I need serious help getting organized because we never seem to make it anywhere on time and even my bills often get paid late! Help!
Thanks for the opportunity!
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i need this to organizational
I have so many little pieces of paper lying around I end up misplacing them and then missing an appointment. This is why I need these type of products.
gabe411 at hotmail dot com
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wife needs it for all the kids activities and appointments. would be nice for her :)
vtarcher33(at)hotmail(dot)com
I need this because my current planner is adorable but not functional enough, so I use other lists and then things get "lost"!
I love that they're so reasonably priced!
I need this because my current planner is adorable but not functional enough, so I use other lists and then things get "lost"!
I love that they're so reasonably priced!
I follow you on GFC :)
I followed on twitter (tiaras_trucks) (and liked on FB just because I think they're cute!)
This looks like an incredible product. Bummer that's it's only US.
Between my twins preschool schedule,my son's therapy schedule ( he is autistic) my work schedule, my husband's work schedule, and running my jewelry business from home, things get messy....this would be a huge help!
And besides, they are uber cute!
I also follow on twitter (amama2twins)
I need a good organizer book because I NEVER remember what is up from day to day anymore. No excuses; I just can't.
If I don't have a list, mannnn....
I would venture to say almost nothing gets done.
beckandcallgirl @ hotmail dot com
because i have 3 kids,sports,business and could really use!
ardelong2(at)gmail(dot)com
this would help me with my adhd..
I badly need to be organized
I need this because I have to write so much stuff down and then I lose the sticky notes!
I have a planner that I use, but I always need another for my bag.
It sounds dumb, but I actually have to write down what leg I give my injection in every week. I know, who forgets that? But I have to rotate and there are times I forget so I have to go look it up.
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I need help getting organized because we have so much going on
I need help getting organized because it is difficult to keep up with all our appointments. I try to mange our obligations of work and our children's obligations. garrettsambo@aol.com
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