After the pen: Feb. 06-Feb. 12.

Ice cream is most definitely cheaper than therapy! just sucks that I am [in what it seems like a never ending cycle of getting] sick, mix that in with the whole vog ladidahs and its just plain misery! These past two weeks have been very draining, bu I'm still holding my head up and smiling...and that's all that really matters, right?!?






Planner {love} Passion Planner
Planner Sticker Kit {love} BEaYOUtiful Planning
Stickers {love} StickiiClub & personal stash & my own

After the pen: Jan 30-Feb.05.

I was feeling sick and extremely frustrated this week. I am glad to leave this week behind. At least I was able to get most everything I had planned to do this week done and the things I didn't get done are in the process of being checked off.

Planner {love} Passion Planner
Planner Sticker Kit {love} BEaYOUtiful Planning
Stickers {love} StickiiClub & personal stash & my own

After the pen: Jan. 23-Jan29.

This was a very productive week for me (despite having a minor setback on Thursday when I had to go home early fro work coz I caught whatever bug the keikis had)! My highlight this week was when we celebrated my adorable nephew's 2nd birthday. his presence has made my world a lot brighter, that's for sure! I am pumped and read to see what this next week will bring!

I am now comfortable with the flow of how I do my planner. And I am learning to love the Monday start and the classic size of this planner does not intimidate me as much anymore. It is "Master Planner" so it does stay home and I look at it constantly when I am home. I have a compact sized planner that I take with me...so that is more mobile, but this one connects all my other planners/to-do list together.

My favorite part of my planner (well, all of it is!), is what I like to call my "planner's highway." And that is the middle-ish part of my planner where I place the full-box stickers. When I use to only have my compact planner, I really didn't like how all the post-its that I would use would cover a lot of the planner and the words that I would write. My "planner's highway" allows me to still use all the post-its that I want and at a glance I can see where I can stick the things that I need to do, but don't really need to have a definite place for them-without them covering everything!

What I like to do with my "planner's highway" is put like a "mobile" to-do list. For example, I know that I like to vacuum at least twice a week. So, on 2 separate post-it, I will write down "vacuum"  and place one on one side of the week and the other on the other. And it is a visual for me to see that I have to so many days to still vacuum until the next half of the week or visa versa. I do it with a lot of things that I see that I spend to much time with like writing postcards for Postcrossing or SendKidsTheWorld. I can write postcards for those two company's all day! I love doing it! So I designate two days a week that I do it...however, if I find that I have time and have finished all my other tasks for that day, I still am guilty of writing more. :) Or making art in my art journals...and so forth. So that is why I like my "highway" in my planner. I hope that makes sense! :)

Well, I like productive weeks-yet HATE feeling not well! But I think everyone does! So yay! For such an accomplished week! :)





Planner {love} Passion Planner
Planner Sticker Kit {love} DesignStickerStore
Stickers {love} StickiiClub & Pipsticks & personal stash & my own

After the Pen: Jan. 16.-Jan. 22

This week was a rough week for me. The whole week I felt like I couldn't really get my baring, if that makes any sense. It wasn't any one thing, just I wasn't feeling this week. I did end it lovely though.  A few friends and I took my DollGirl out for a fun, adventure, exploring kind of day...so that was good. Other than that, this week wasn't really one that I would remember or anything. But I survived it...and I get to start all over next week. :) yay! to lovely planners that keep me grounded when I feel like the world just wants to crumble around me!

Planner {love} Passion Planner
Planner Sticker Kit {love} BEaYOUtiful Planning
Stickers {love} StickiiClub & Pipsticks & personal stash & my own

After the pen: Jan. 09 - Jan. 15.

My first week back to teaching after my winter break was...up and down and inside and out. It was chaotic..(I didn't know that I was going to have TWO new keikis joining my class AND licensing came!) but it was also fun. I miss "my" kids when I don't see them. This week, I participated in my first LuLaRoe party, which my sister-IL hosted. Their shipping was SUPER fast! The party was on Monday and by Saturday I was able to wear my first LuLaRoe shirt! WOW! I also spent a super fun day with my family...and I SURVIVED my first week of the year back at the preschool! I would say that it was a pretty good! :)

Planner {love} Passion Planner
Planner Sticker Kit {love} SnsTreasures
Sticker {love} Pipsticks & personal stash

After the pen: Jan 2-Jan 08.

Is it really the start of a new week already?! What/! I'm still getting used to this layout...Monday start is different, but I did want to try my weekend days together and see how I liked that. I have to admit that I didn't get everything that I wanted done this week...and I had o switch my Wednesday plans into my Friday plans and visa versa, but all-in-all, K feel like it was a pretty accomplished week! Yay! I'm sad to see that my Winter Break is over, but I am looking forward to seeing my keikis again!

Planner {love} Passion Planner
Planner Sticker Kit {love} planner.pickett
Sticker {love} Pipsticks & personal stash

Before the pen: Jan 02-Jan 08.

I LOVE the stickers that I used in this layout! I love the color combinations of pink, white, black...and anything with gold! I love flowers. I love stripes. I love polka dots. I love this whole layout! Although this is my second week using this classic planner, I feel like as if it's new, new, new....maybe its because its a new year...and I am glad that I get to use this beautiful layout! It's my last week of break...and so I have a lot of things planned that I want to do before school starts again. But here is to the first full week of the new year!

I thought that it would be fun to take a picture and post up the first entry I had last year in my compact Passion Planner! I had gone back to California for the holidays and so I was still there for a part of it...and it made me smile to see that at this time last year, I was with my best friend. :)


Planner {love} Passion Planner
Planner Sticker Kit {love} planner.pickett
Sticker {love} Pipsticks & personal stash

After the pen: Dec. 26-Jan. 01.

This was a trial run with my full classic size Passion Planner...I had to see how I liked this. I was also trying this out with the layout and how I was going to use this planner...and I think that I like how this is going. There are a few things that I might change up, and new stickers that I want to make, and just the things that I want to put in here.

And here it is! Here is the "after the pen" entry! I like it...I feel like I have to re-access how I am going to use this planner since I feel like I am not using it to the best of what I can. But I like how I am incorporating post-its...and I really like how the planner is larger and has more room so that I can put that section where I place the post-its. I really disliked how in the compact my post-its would cover the things that I wrote, but this way, it doesn't. I like how I  can see everything that I write. So, I would say, yes, I like this size planner...takes getting used to, but I think that I will adapt to it well.

Oh yeah, I use this planner as my master planner and I leave it at home...I plan for it to keep me grounded whenever I come home. I sit down with it for a bit before work and I look and add to it when I get home. I think I like how that works.

After the Pen: Dec. 25-Dec. 31.

And there she is...my last layout for the year 2016! My wish for it being relaxing didn't really happen, but it was a VERY productive last week of the year.  I was able to purge, re-organize, and rearrange my "little corner" of the world, I spent time with family and friends, I enjoyed the beach, I created, I prepped [nearly] all my planners and journals for the new year, and I "slept in" [until  7:30am!]..so I would say it was a good, productive week! :) Goodbye to this year and hello to the new year!



Planner {love} Passion Planner
Planner Sticker Kit {love} LaghingAndLosingIt
Stickers {love} LaghingAndLosingIt & my own 

After the Pen: Dec. 18-Dec.24.

What a crazy week this was! I can't believe that it's finally over...it happened so fast, but yet I felt like it lasted F O R E V E R! But It was a good week. My kids were crazy, but that's okay, we weren't ever bored that's for sure! I actually was really anxious for tonight when we had the Christmas Eve party at my sister's house, because I'm not good with a lot of people...especially those I don't know. But it as fun, and I'm so glad that I went. And I am so happy this week is over, but glad that it happened! Only one more week! Ahhhh! :)

Planner {love} Passion Planner
Planner Sticker Kit {love} my own
Stickers {love} StickiiClub & SnsTreasures & personal stash 

After the Pen: Dec. 11-Dec. 17.

I love this layout-it's so bright and colorful! I really need to get on the wagon on how to make planner stickers! I have tried, and I want to continue to try to make them super cute and how I like them! This week was a crazy week for me! We started and FINISHED our Christmas gifts for our parents and I have been trying to get in my Christmas shopping in-between the crazy times! I am ALMOST done, but not quite, but that's okay, I'm not too worried. We have one more week until the break...but until, no sleep for wicked...well, for this teacher! :)


Planner {love} Passion Planner
Planner Sticker Kit {love} SnsTreasures
Stickers {love} StickiiClub & personal stash 

After the Pen: Dec. 4-Dec. 10.

This week in my Passion Planner wasn't as busy as it has been in the past week, however it did feel pretty L O N G...yep, long days. This week threw me a couple curve balls, but that's okay, because I kept my head up and I survived. :) I was able to talk to my parents this week, and that always makes everything good. I miss them and I can't wait to see them again. Soon. I loved how I was able to fit in some family time and explore the Christmas decoration in town. So that was cool. I also was able to do some Christmas shopping...not yet fully done yet, but I'm getting there. :) I am also trying to get a rough draft of how I am planning my Christmas break. Well, this was a good week...yet I am glad that it has come to and end. :)


Planner {love} Passion Planner
Planner Sticker Kit {love} Sparkles of Stickers
Stickers {love} StickiiClub & personal stash 

After the Pen: Nov. 27-Dec. 3.

This week was e x h a u s t i n g. It felt SO long, and yet when Friday came around, it felt like it was Monday all over again! We had our Christmas program this week and so I think that is what made everything feel like it was FOREVER! We would have practices in the morning and by the time practice was over, I felt like I wanted a nap...and it was only 10:am! The keikis' were all scatterbrained because the schedule was all off this week...and it made one hell of a time for the teachers. But that's okay, because the Christmas program went well and I am so proud of the little ones. :) I can't say that I am sad to say goodbye to this week though...but I am glad that it happened! :) The first week of the last month over and done! :)

 Planner {love} Passion Planner
Planner Sticker Kit {love} Sparkles of Stickers
Stickers {love} Pipsticks and StickiiClub

After the Pen: Nov. 20-Nov.26.

This week was...wow, I can't even find a word to describe this week. Let's just say that when I was on the way home after a LONG day on WEDNESDAY, I felt like it was already Friday! I am so glad that I had Thursday and Friday off...and then the weekend! :) I spent a lot of time with family and I also enjoyed that. I love my family! :) We had our thanksgiving meal at my sister's house and once again she out did herself, like she does every year! :) I did not participate in Black Friday shopping, but I did take advantage of it's sales...online. :) I did buy a TV online from Target since I did have some giftcard's to use...but did you know that you can only use 4 giftcards at one time (while online). Oh well, I could have gotten a TV for "free" if that wasn't the case...with all the giftcards and the deals that Black Friday brings...but oh well, that's okay, at least I still have some balance in my Target account. And I did splurge a little on some stickers that were on sale on StickiiClub...but other than that, I spent time either with my family or at the beach...which was much needed. I try to go to the ocean at least once a day, however it ranges from 5 mins to a few hours...and usually during the work week, I only have a few minutes to spare to be at the beach...but because I had a break from work, I had the time to spend a few hours at the beach with my book! :) I loved it! I also go to talk to my parents for a few minutes after not hearing from them for 2 months...so that was good! I loved that. They are coming home for a few months next year and I'm super looking forward to that! :)

...and now it's time for a new week to begin. :) Goodnight!

 Planner {love} Passion Planner
Planner Sticker Kit {love} Sparkles of Stickers
Stickers {love} Pipsticks

After the Pen: Nov. 013-Nov.19.

Here is my Passion Planner "after the pen." This week was more draining than normal...but that's okay. We all have weeks like that. I feel like my preschool keikis know that a break is coming up and so they were extra wild and crazy this week. Then again that's a normal thing for them! And one of the reasons why I LOVE teaching the 2-3 year olds! :) Lets see here, what were the highlights of this week?! Oh yeah! I really loved seeing the super moon! I went walking up Makapu'u Lighthouse Trail Sunday night and even though it wasn't the "true" super moon...it was still super amazing to see! Oh my goodness... I just love the moon! It's so beautiful and the way that it makes a silvery trail in the water! I love it! I can see why people would describe it (and believe it to be) magical. Oh my goodness, there was a ukus happening in our school. For those of you who don't know what ukus is, it's HEAD LICE! Oh my days! That was yesterday, Friday, so at least we have the weekend to clean up...and for me extra because that same day (Friday) a parent called me to say that their child had Hand-Foot-Mouth...and so I SUPER clean my classroom because of that. And then another little girl (not from my class) got pneumonia. So our school was hit with 3 grand slams...and a teacher was out for the majority of the week (due to sickness) so it was a tough week. But hey look, it's the end of the week, I'm about to turn into bed and I survived. I saw this quote online that went something like this, "Update: You have survived 100% of the worst days of your life." I like that. I have survived this week..and I'm eager and ready to start next week! :)

This quote kept going through my mind whenever I was hit with a "plot twist" this week: "Chin up princess or the crown will fall." Gotta keep that crown on! :)

Planner {love} Passion Planner
Planner Stickers {love} Snstreasures
Stickers {love} Pipsticks

After the Pen: Nov. 06-Nov.12.

This week was emotionally and mentally draining for me. I don't think that it was any different than any other week...[well, election day was draining for me!]....but I think that this week I was feeling super high and super low and news after news kept hitting me, whether it was good or bad, it still kept hitting me left and right and I could barely get my foot settled on stable ground. I'm glad that I was able to have an extended stay at the beach earlier today. I did go to the beach nearly every day...even if it was just a few minutes, but yesterday I spend a good 4 hours just being on the beach and in the water...and it felt good.

As the years go by, I feel like the more that I'm alone the more content I am. Don't get me wrong, I may be more anti-social than I was when I was younger, but I still can be around people...and I will always be there for my friends when/if they need me...but I don't feel as if I, myself, can trust anyone as I wish I could. And for the most part, that's okay with me. I write a lot, and that helps plenty. But there are times where I just long for that listening ear that just listens, cares...and just is there. But I guess that's where the ocean comes in. I feel like at least, I have a place that I can go to where I can recharge and find the inner strength to continue going on.

I can't say that I'm sad that this week is gone...but I can say that I'm excited for the new week that will bring more adventures. :)

After the Pen: Oct. 30-Nov. 5.

So here is my daily planner after the pen...after this crazy week! I wouldn't have it any other way though because I like knowing that I have full days ahead of me. When my break time comes, I will have my break, but for now I am just chugging away through the days and crossing off the things that I've done! I love seeing a fully checked off list...and looking back at the week and knowing that I did it! :) I still have to work on my sleeping habits though! Oh well, at least I'm more conscious of it!

Planner {love} Passion Planner
Planner Sticker Kit {love} Sparkles of Stickers
Stickers {love} Pipsticks

After the Pen Oct. 23-Oct. 29

This is my daily planner "after the pen." It was a pretty crazy week this week...and I know that it's only going to get even crazier the closer we get to the holiday season! As much as I think it would be fun to have those "no white planners" where there is no white showing in a planner, but only stickers or something...I don't think that that would be very helpful to me. I do love decorating all my planners...but I know that I would need a lot more room to write, than just having it covered in stickers and only have a very limited place to write. :) But as this week is coming to a close...I like to see how I was able to cross off nearly all the things that I needed to remember and/or get done. I love that feeling. :)