Welcome 2025!

I love January! I love the start of a new year for all the obvious reasons (Summer in Australia) but also because it is a fresh start, a time to get organised.

But Soccer Mum, I hear you say, I am busy erecting my beach cabana, watching the Tennis and planning expensive holiday program child care for my eventual return to work. How can I get organised?

Mid January is when the clubs will start to fill you What's App or Team App with pre-season training schedules and future Cups and Friendly's. To keep track of all this I had my trusty Organised Housewife Planner freshly minted on my kitchen bench but I would be the only one who used it. The other 5 members of the family felt writing things in a diary was too restrictive and beneath them. And besides isn't that what Mum's are for?

So 2024 I worked with the young people rather than against them and I invested in a Calendar App called Cozi. Yes, I know we could use Google Calendar for free but again I don't understand why young people are considered so tech savvy. They all raged against Google. So, I started with the free version of Cozi but the ads annoyed me and the benefits were clearly paying off quickly enough for me to justify the yearly $59 fee for the Gold version.

My repeat phrases all year were "Is it in the diary? What does the diary say?"  and now I have trained my kids and more importantly my husband to put things in the diary through the app! My mental load as a Soccer Mum is now dispersed to the rest of the family team.

Yesterday I inputted into the app all the training schedules and games we have so far for 2025 and I am feeling pretty pumped and organised for 2025! 

Yours

Soccer Mum

P.S. I still have my Organised Housewife Calendar though - I am still a little old school and it's so pretty!

(All products mentioned here I use and this is not a paid article - I genuinely love these tools).