It is with intentionality that I create my planner / journal. I know without a doubt that in this busy crazy world, home for me is the place where I find joy, creativity, rest, refreshment, and of course the cozy. Sometimes, especially during the school year, when I am in my classroom each day I long for home and cozy feeling it gives me.
When I started this type of planner about 4 years ago I knew it was the planner for me. Here's why:
💕 It's blank and so I get to decide and create what I need from a planner - how much room for each page, how I want it to layed out, etc.
💕 I make it seasonal ~ right now summer images are all over my planner, but come September and all of the fall goodness will charm it's pages
💕 It allows me to look forward to the seasons and look forward to the days ahead. Sometimes I can get a heavy 'spirit of dread/or a spirit of heaviness' (see Isaiah 61:3) and this planner combats that. Instead of looking at what could possibly be a sad or a busy or a difficult week/season/etc, my planner journal is too adorable and forces me to see each day as a gift of seasonal bliss. What is good about January? Well, when I look at cute pages filled with blankets and books, hot cocoa and soup simmering, suddenly I'm excited about all of that!
💕 Each page has a Bible verses that I have been studying or memorizing or that has simply touched my heart. I also put quotes that inspire me or I'll even write to myself calling things that are not yet, as though they are. (see Romans 4:17). I might write something ahead of time on an August page like this: "You are a patient mama and you bless your family with your life-giving words." or "For each child and my darling husband I carve out time and make it special, different, set-apart, beautiful." or "Blessing Anna and Abigail each night before they go to bed gives them the gift of a peaceful, restful, loved heart." I call things that have not yet happened as if they are true.
💕 It's a place where I write my appointments or places I need to be. For example after my pages are decorated and they have those Bible veres or quotes I am ready for the month/season. But each night before I go to bed I write where I need to be the next and and all of the things I need to do. So it's my whole plan for the day.
💕 I save room for picutes (I use Canon Ivy which lets me print little pictures right from my phone)
💕 It become a keepsake
Here are a few pages. I've created my pages all the way through the first day of school. Now I can really enjoy each day. This week I might even start my September planner journal and start adding in apples and cozy fall images.
💕 I'd love to know what brings you cozy in the midst of a busy world.
💕 Part two coming soon!
(check out
this post from Chrissy who gave the the idea for blogging cozy ideas)
