Today’s giveaway is from Heather of Mama’s Notebooks. I asked Heather to share a little about herself and what inspired her series of notebooks geared towards helping mamas stay organized!
“I am a Catholic wife, homeschooling mother of three little ones, and lover of knitting, crocheting, literature, and Chemistry. Though I am from the northeast, I love living in the great state of Texas and all the sunshine that comes with it. I dabble in urban homesteading to try and provide my family with truly nutritious food. My days are busy and happy and I love raising my children.
In an attempt to organize various aspects of my life, I originally designed and published all of Mama’s Notebooks for myself. I love notebooks, they keep everything in one neat little package but allow plenty of room for brainstorming and creativity within. They are flexible and that is what I needed as a young mother.
My first notebook was Mama’s Notebook. When I created it, I made and tested custom chart and list pages to keep everything streamlined and easy to reference. All of those years of organizing charts in lab notebooks certainly helped me here! After some fine tuning I had a system that helped me to declutter my mind and not constantly worry that I was forgetting to do something!
Having it all in one place made planning a week easy. In addition, I started being able to incorporate more nutritional balance into my meal plans, to see when a week was just too packed and I needed to step it down for everyone, and to prioritize my most important goals. At the end of the weeks, I could check in and see if I had accomplished what I needed to and if my goals were realistic. This new notebook really did wonders to help our family life.
My husband suggested that we should make the notebook publicly available because it might be useful to others, and Mama’s Notebooks was born. My goal is simply to provide people with something to help them get organized so that they can enjoy their lives with less worry and stress.
After making Mama’s Notebook, I used the same principles to organize our budget, my knit & crochet projects, and made the notebook I wish I could have had after each of my babies were born (hopefully, I’ll have an opportunity to use it yet!) Each notebook is designed to be both attractive and practical, to make everyday life just a little bit more beautiful.”
Mama’s Notebook provides you with an easy, flexible, and efficient way to organize your life. In one glance, you can coordinate your meal plan with the whole day’s events and tasks, and there’s always ample room to take notes on the things that matter to you most! Unlike other planners, you can start up Mama’s Notebook on any week of the year, and you can skip weeks as needed. The back section of the planner provides you with easy reference sheets to help you schedule and shop efficiently.
The Knit and Crochet Notebook by Mama’s Notebooks will help you to organize your thoughts, customizations and designs for knit and crochet projects. It features project pages for each project, an easy-reference table of contents at the beginning to help you keep track of individual projects, a hook and needle tracker, a project wish list, a guide to easy measuring with charts to keep measurements for the people you make things for, and a standard yarn weight reference—all in one notebook! This spiral bound notebook is easy to flip through and has graph paper to help you with your designs.
The Budget Notebook by Mama’s Notebooks is designed to help you keep a household budget that is simple, easy, and accurate. It features charts for everything you’ll need to get your budget under control, as well as a Notes section at the back with ample room for planning, organizing, writing reminder and to-do lists, and tallying up sums. You can buy this notebook for an academic year budget (September-August) or a calendar year budget (January-December).
The New Baby Notebook by Mama’s Notebooks provides you with one place to keep track of your family’s needs. In the front of the book, you can record all of your important phone numbers so that you don’t have to go searching for them when you need them. Organized by weeks, this notebook provides a simple daily calendar, meal planner, and to do list alongside a daily feeding & diaper record, as well as a checklist for taking care of you. You can open the notebook and see your entire week at a glance! In the back, there is a place to take notes on baby’s sleep as well as reference sheets to fill in for your freezer meal inventory, a standard shopping list, go to meals and snacks, a list of books and movies for when you need them, and a thank you card tracker. The meal references are designed to help you streamline easy meal planning on the calendar pages. And of course, there is also plenty of room for notes.
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Heather is offering one winner a Mama’s Notebook Planner and Organizer, and a second winner a Knit and Crochet Notebook. In addition, all of Heather’s notebooks are currently on sale. You can receive another 5% off your order, on top of the sale price, by entering the code FAST5 at checkout.
For a chance to win, simply leave a comment on this post. For a second chance to win, “Like” Mama’s Notebooks on Facebook and leave a second comment letting me know you have done so. Comments will close and a winner will be randomly selected on Monday, November 4. The winner will be notified via email and announced within this post.
Comments are closed and the winners are Emily “What a wonderful giveaway!!! Thank you !” and Kathy “this is awesome! If I get the Mama organizer, I have a Christmas gift for my sister. If I get the knit and crochet organizer, early Christmas present for me! lol thank you for hosting!”
Thanks, Heather and Mama’s Notebooks!
Lemontreelane says
This would be so fun to fill in… And I’d be organized, too!
Lynn says
I am a homeschool mother to 11 wonderful children! I need daily reminders of the beauty of this life as it is so easy to get caught up in the schedules and running if even only in my brain. Thank you to all homeschool mom’s who share their gifts and experiences. Encouragement is a gift from God through all of you who share it so beautifully!
Emily says
What a wonderful giveaway!!! Thank you !
Jaci says
Wow! I love how God gives each one of us a different talent, then allows us to share it with others! These are great!
Alie says
These are wonderful. I love all the thought that went into the notebooks. I could really use this. I’m heading over to look at all the notebooks now!
Melissa says
oh my goodness I love love these notebooks! thank you so very much !
Heather says
Sounds like a wonderful planner! And I can use any help I can get 🙂
Christina says
These look fantastic…just what a busy mom of 5 boys like me could use! Thanks for your generosity.
Christ’s peace!
CJ says
Lovely notebooks, I think I need something like this to organise me! Thank you for the giveaway.
Doña says
I’ve also liked the FB page
Doña says
Both of these notebooks would be so useful!
Lisa de says
The books are beautiful. Thanks for the chance!
Paula says
Hi! I am a homeschooling mum of three in Holland and when the day is not my friend (but my teacher 🙂 ) I love to go to your website to feel connected with the beauty of homeschooling. A lifestyle that is not common in Holland..but it feels so good. I love your way of looking into the world and the beautifull pictures of your kids and your home. And yes I’d love to receive a Mamma’s book. Good work. We will see who the Lucky mum is! Love from Paula
Heather says
These are beautiful! I would love to win one!
Julia says
This is an answer to prayer!
cirila cerilo says
i love your notebooks – thanks for the opportunity to win one.
Laura says
They look like great planners! Thanks for the chance to win!!
Sandra says
SI’m a mommy and a knitter, so both of these sound great! :). How fun!
Celeste says
Really inspirational that a young mother has taken control of her time and now wants to help others do the same!
Annie says
Wow, these look really helpful!
kate C. says
Nice!
NanaMamah says
What excellent organizers! I’ve been looking for exactly this!
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Christina says
My mission right now is organizing my life! This would be awesome!!!
Kerith says
Those look wonderful!
Mary Grace says
What a great idea!
Rachel says
This sounds amazing!
Catherine says
Oh, I love lists and I love notebooks. These sound awesome!
Sara says
Wow. The planner looks great.
emma says
I could really do with.one of these to stay focused and organised.
Susan says
how wonderful
Mellie says
I am so excited about this. I LOVE planners and could sure use one of these.
Sarah B. says
I also have liked Mama’s Notebooks on FB.
Sarah B. says
I am so excited to see a planner with everything on one page! Thanks for the chance to win.
kreativberg says
Would love to win one copy 🙂
Valerie Vashon says
This would be so helpful! Thank you!
alison blanchard says
This would be so great!
Taryn Kae Wilson @ Wooly Moss Roots says
Liked Mama’s Notebooks on Facebook for a second entry. 🙂
Taryn Kae Wilson @ Wooly Moss Roots says
Thanks for the giveaway. These notebooks look great. I use a planner every day to help me stay organized.
Janine says
This looks like it would be so helpful.
Maria says
Would love to win!
Tiffany M. says
These look great….I would love to win one 🙂 Thank you for the chance!
Beth says
Thanks for the chance! It would be so helpful to keep me on track.
Traci says
What wonderful planners!
Tyna says
I liked Mama’s Notebooks on FB!
Tyna says
This looks so wonderful! What a great idea!
Laura says
Neat! They look very helpful.
Kris says
Where was that baby notebook when I started having little ones?! Sweet.
Sandra says
I liked her page on facebook.
Sandra says
I would love the Mama’s notebook planner! I might just have to order one to help me this year!
Jessie says
Thank you for the opportunity. These look very helpful!
Emily says
Everyone should enter this giveaway! Who doesn’t need help planning!?