My husband and I have two daughters, ages 3 and 8 and I’m a stay-at-home Mom. When my husband and I made the decision that I would quit working when our family arrived, I thought my life would be so simple. I’d have all the time in the world to do what was necessary with two little kids. Take them to school, their soccer games, their gymnastic classes, brownies, play dates, dance lessons, birthday parties, to the doctor and dentist when necessary and so on. Our first daughter was a happy, calm, follow me around the house type of child. We went to “Mommy and Me” classes, she took gymnastics, dance classes and went to preschool and then kindergarten. Then we received the joyous news that we were expecting another child. Little did we know that life, as I knew it, was over forever. All of a sudden we had TWO children to keep track of. Now everything doubled. Twice as much of EVERYTHING! Because of their 5 year age difference, their activities were much different, so out came the post-it-notes on the fridge. At one point we had to get a new refrigerator and it took me almost as long to transfer the post-it-notes as it did the food! OK, we thought….get a big calendar. That helped, but there were still lots of post-its with phone numbers, shopping lists, phone numbers, etc. My kitchen looked like a paper factory that was just bombed!

I couldn’t even imagine how my sister got through the day with four children, including a set of twins and a toddler! AND….she and her husband have a home business. When I asked her, her response was “I have notes EVERYWHERE and we are constantly rushing around to get somewhere because we’ve just “discovered” there’s an event or an appointment”. She was in the same situation as I was, but worse! My other sister was a working mom with one child, but she had to travel. When she was gone, it was all up to her husband. She was in the same post-it note frazzle we all were. Then I started observing my friends…..everyone was stressed trying to keep everything straight.

One day, after watching my complete frustration trying to keep everything straight, my husband said “You need a big chart with everything on it”. Aha!! Hence, the birth of the Mom’s Chart. I started thinking about what information I needed and I started tracking my days. I also watched my sisters and friends and started thinking “ORGANIZATION”! That’s the key. After many, many hours, interviews, trials and experiments, we came up with the product you see today. It has changed my life. I feel much less stressed, more organized, and the time I’ve saved looking for information has allowed me more time doing the things I want to do. My family is happy and I am smiling (which may be one of the reasons for their happiness). We hope you find this tool as helpful as we do.

Enjoy.