It's party time at our house! Saturday is our 3rd Annual Holiday Open House. This is the first year I've prepared for it while working full time. All I can say is the making of lists has kept me sane (or proved I'm crazy)!
In the initial planning stages there was the Master List. This is where everything I could possibly think of that needed doing was put. It was long and unmanagable, so I made sub lists.
There was the Baking List is where I kept track of what I needed to bake.
The Baking List list birthed the Shopping List of everything I needed to get to in order to cross things off the Baking List.
The Shopping List lead to the Places to Shop to Get it All List.
My least favorite was the Cleaning List.
Sunday morning I made the Countdown List. It included all the days of the week leading up to the party and what needed to be done on each day. Star Wars Son cleaned the downstairs bathroom today. A full 3 days ahead of schedule!
I've been taking a pad of paper to bed with me in case I remember something I need to add to an existing list, or worse if I think of a new list I need to make.
I seriously have issues!