Hey, Bootcampers! I hope y'all had a simply wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with friends and family. For us, it was a lovely time at home together, recounting the way God has showered his blessings upon us this year. One of those blessings was a wonderful garden - stay tuned in the next few days for some of the recipes I whipped up for our Thanksgiving feast - using produce from our own homestead!
In the meantime, you might be feeling slightly - or incredibly - overwhelmed by your to-do list as December approaches. It is a joyful time of year, no doubt about that. But if you're not organized, it can be exhausting, too. Do you feel like your wheels are spinning but you're not getting anywhere? Let me share three great products with you -- two of which are deeply discounted due to Cyber Monday!
Bootcamp for Lousy Housekeepers - Lulu Version
First off, my own book, Bootcamp for Lousy Housekeepers, is on sale over at Lulu - in both paperback and coil-bound. If use the promo code CYBER40 at checkout, Lulu will discount an additional 40%, giving you the book for half off! That's the best sale of the year!
Plan to Eat - Annual Black Friday Sale
Next -- and this one is EXCITING, y'all! -- Plan to Eat is having their annual Black Friday Sale for 50% off an annual subscription to their amaaaaaaazing meal planning site. Friends, I'm not the kind of blogger who gets a lot of free products to review and make money off of. If I'm telling you about a product, it is because I use it and love it. And I LOVE Plan to Eat. I've been a regular Plan to Eat user since 2010, and when I say regular, I mean DAILY. You just wouldn't believe how much the website and service improves every year. It's really fantastic. I blogged about it back in 2011, and though the site looks a little different, the service is still amazing. If you struggle with making a meal plan, or sticking to a meal plan, or creating and sticking to a grocery budget, or coming up with healthy things to feed your family, or just. not. having. enough. time. or maybe, like me, it was all of the above -- Plan to Eat is an amazing solution.
Please, go check it out! This amazing one-sale-a-year brings your cost to only $19.50 for a YEAR -- that's $1.63 a MONTH -- 5¢ a day -- less than 2¢ a MEAL -- for easy access to all your favorite recipe sites with simple importing, meal planning, even automatic calendar alerts to remind you when to thaw your meat or bake your bread! Click on over and take the tour. I think you'll love it as much as I do!
After you sign up, I'd love to share my recipes with you or help you use it to your best advantage. My user name is Bootcamp Heidi - just friend me!
Please, go check it out! This amazing one-sale-a-year brings your cost to only $19.50 for a YEAR -- that's $1.63 a MONTH -- 5¢ a day -- less than 2¢ a MEAL -- for easy access to all your favorite recipe sites with simple importing, meal planning, even automatic calendar alerts to remind you when to thaw your meat or bake your bread! Click on over and take the tour. I think you'll love it as much as I do!
After you sign up, I'd love to share my recipes with you or help you use it to your best advantage. My user name is Bootcamp Heidi - just friend me!
The 12-Week Holiday Planner
The last terrific resource I want to share with you is Sheri Graham's The 12-Week Holiday Planner for the Christian Family. It is exactly what it sounds like - a planner that takes you from October through the New Year, helping you get and stay organized in all your holiday preparations, aiding you in your desire to celebrate deliberately and weave peace and joy through your festivities. It's a digital book with unlimited printing so you can print out all the pages you need year after year. I've been using this planner to help me organize my cooking, baking, gifting, and calendar for eight years now, and I'm sure I'd be lost without it.
Included in each printable book:
- Blank monthly and weekly calendar pages for planning your year
- Weekly “To Do” lists showing exactly what needs to be done each week
- Thanksgiving and Christmas Menus forms
- Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Recipe Card forms
- A Holiday Self-Evaluation form
- Shopping Lists
- “Sheri’s Tips”- tips to make your holidays meaningful, shared throughout the ebook
- Christmas Craft and Gift Ideas
- Memory Making Ideas for the Family
- Holiday Journal Pages
- Many, many forms such as:
Christmas Gift Shopping List
Gift Making Checklist
Christmas Card Checklist
Holiday Wardrobe Planner
List of Baked Items to Share/Give Away
Favorite Meals to Freeze for Later
Decoration Ideas
Needed Supplies to Purchase This Week
Holiday Baking Schedule
Kids’ Gift Idea List
Christmas Gifts to be Shipped - PLUS!!! Two bonus weeks with family tradition ideas, menus, and more!
- PLUS!!! Some of Sheri's favorite holiday recipes!
- PLUS!!! Holiday Coloring Pages!
- PLUS!!! Brand new zipped folder with all the forms from the planner in editable PDF format
So, what are you using to organize yourself this busy holiday season? As always, I LOVE comments! Let me know how you're staying on top of things!
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