The School Morning Checklist

I'm not sure about you all, but our school mornings always seem hectic.  It could be that every inhabitant of my home is going in a direction and they don't have a map.  The biggest culprit of wandering around aimlessly is our school-ager.  What ever happened to being born with certain in-bred tendencies of taking care of one's self...oh, yeah.  That's right...we humans didn't come with that installed.  If you are like me, and totally envious that the local birds all seem to have an uncanny ability to build their own nest, eat their meals without the need for another hunter and travel without directions...here is an idea that I came up with:

 

The School Morning Checklist

 

A check in every circle would be every mom's dream...

 

 

I started this project out with a list of all the things that our child could do on his own (and to date chooses not to).  Let me just say, this evolved...and became descriptive to a fault.  From there I opened up Word and realized that the average size page wasn't going to work for us so it got bumped up to Legal.  I laid out the list with a means to check-off whether the item had been done or not and found a really cool backdrop for it all.  Hit print, will laminate it later and hang on the fridge.  Now if only, I'll be so lucky as to have someone follow the instructions. :)

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