Getting organized seems to be tougher and tougher these days, with our schedules getting busier and busier, and more and more tech tools to help out in ways that require full days of programming and entering info. We discussed the allure of collecting pretty datebooks, the tech we've tried and adapted to our own needs (including Day One, Wunderlist, SimpleNote, iCal, and Evernote, which we don't quite know what to do with), our favorite low-tech tricks, and the proper orientation of days on a wall calendar.
Then we moved on to the current trend of formally announcing things like births, deaths, engagements, weddings, and other major life milestones online, rather than the old-fashioned phone chain or snail-mail. We shared our love of e-vites, our concerns about Facebook death notices, and our feeling that folks who miss things because they're not connected should go ahead and join us in the 21st century.
Finally, we shared our recommendations for the week. Amanda was too swamped by the events she has to organize for this week to come up with something, but Catherine recommended an upcoming documentary on obesity as well as the film Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day; Nicole shared her organization-apropos article on "10 Simple Tools to Help with Executive Functioning in the Classroom"; and Terri really thinks you should go right now and download NPR's Austin 100, which did indeed come out the day after we recorded and is available through April 2. (Did she mention that it's 100 free songs?)
Thanks as always to Jon Morin for producing our episode and Kristin Eredics for our happy in-and-out music. (If you're reading this description somewhere without hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.)