Keeping tabs on a big family can be tricky, with after school clubs, nursery trips, birthday parties and doctor’s appointments to keep track of. Traditional diaries don’t really give you the option to have everyone’s schedule in one place – there just isn’t room to write down everyones daily routine.
The new Mum’s Office Big Family Diary is the answer. Their revolutionary GRID format enables you to see your weekly schedule in conjunction with your family’s. You can see at a glance who should be where and when. You can even use the grid for meal plans, work rotas, college work or shopping lists – whatever you need to keep your life running the way it should!
The diary is laid out with tabs so you can easily flick to the area that you need, and there is heaps of room to write down important tasks and things to remember as well as appointments and birthdays.
At the front of the diary is the usual information section, where you can record important details about yourself, your partner and your children. I love the kids section, where there is space to write shoe sizes, clothing sizes and term dates. I find these are the sort of things I often need to know when out and about, and when you have a large family it can be difficult to remember off the top of your head!
Despite being fully packed with all these features and containing a whopping 176 pages, the Mum’s Office Big Family Diary measures just 24.5 x 19.5cm – the perfect size for popping in your handbag. There is an expandable pocket on the rear inside cover for keeping paperwork and notes, a pen loop and en elastic strap to keep everything together. It is also bound so that it can lay flat when open, making it much easier to use on a day to day basis. It runs in line with the school year, from 1st August through to 31st August the following year, which makes it easier to co-ordinate with school terms.
As well as diaries, Mum’s Office also sell other handy products, including this Family Address Book. I have a lovely pink one to giveaway to one lucky reader – simply enter below for a chance to win!
Terms and conditions. Open to UK residents, giveaway ends 3/1/17. Winner will be randomly selected from all correctly completed entries and contacted by email. Winner must claim their prize within 10 days or it may be redrawn.
Great for remembering birthdays and address and special occasions
telephone
me and hubby sync our dairies so we can check each others plant
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By mobile when they are out.
know where they are
I don’t have one I Just wing it as I go along! 🙂 x
I use a big wall calendar
I have a big calendar in the kitchen that gets updated daily!
I write everything down in a diary.
A wall calendar and notice board.
My diary. I could do with a bigger one rather than a pocket one but I know where everyone is (and if I have agreed to take them rather than the usual – I did tell you – when they hadn’t)
If it’s not in the diary – it’s not happening!
I always have a calendar where i write everything down
Notes on the fridge door.
mobile phones
Using the calendar on my phone
We have a timetable on our fridge so that we can easily see which kid’s got PE/Cookery/Football etc. on any given day of the week. Makes life easier for us x
a good calendar would be really helpful too
I’m so lucky that we live in the age of the mobile phone – I can phone the older ones whilst juggling the younger lol!!!!
I have a calendar in the kitchen and try to write plans/appointments on as soon as I receive them, if not I forget
I try and write everything on the calendar we have a running joke that if its not on there it’s not happening!!