Postby Harriet » Thu Oct 03, 2013 8:26 pm
blessed, turned horizontally, the first line is for the date I'm starting the card. The second is for the M, T, W , Th, etc. for half the month, each day above a square in the grid. The days start about 6 spaces over to leave space for words down the side. There will usually be 15 or 16, except February!
I use a ruler and mark a line all the way across under the days.
Then, down the left side, I usually write:
Water (this is pints)
2
3
4
5
Vitamins
Exercise
Fts, Veggies
2
3
4
5
Mostly God Made?
and I check off each square that I can. I do use half-checks, too.
The only space left is about a half-line's space at the bottom, and sometimes I count up my checkmarks and put the total there.
I also use the ruler to make a vertical line between the words and the start of the days.
I keep the card on the fridge under a magnet, and have a pen in a holder there for checking off.
Trick or Treat was so sweet when I was a child as many mothers and neighbors who loved children would make cupcakes, etc - very personal baking. Then with my two older children, we had fun making small treat bags out of that smallest size paper mini-grocery bag, maybe 4x7, which we'd fill with non-sugar treats because dneighbor/cousin's child had juvenile diabetes, plus it was just good for children. We had a lovely tray of those every year, tied with orange curly ribbon at the top, through punched holes. Dd15 has never known us to have a single Trick-or-Treater - things just changed, I guess. She has always gone out to family's houses, but has seen no one Trick-or-Treat in our area.