SUNDAY ROUTINE // PREP WITH ME FOR THE WEEK // PLAN WITH ME

[@JoannaThornton]

Yesssss, I’m such a planner, too! LOVED this video! 😍 I have 4 kids, so not planning is basically NOT an option. 😝

[@Amy.Darley]

love it!!!! and you're totally right!

[@naturallybeingmommy4460]

I like to get my kids to plan which school lunches they are going to eat ahead of time too! We love Home Chef! Definitely my favorite meal delivery box!

[@HomechoolbythePond]

I'm so glad someone else lays out their kids clothes for a week at a time!! My husband thinks I'm crazy but I find it so much easier to take 10 min on Sunday night to look at the weather and my calendar to pick out her outfits than having to look every morning!

[@Amy.Darley]

hahaha!!! I love it!

[@chrisoulalakkas7935]

Even if you don’t feel like doing it. Like doing it. Get things done

[@ShopAtSpicywedding]

If you haven't put away your Christmas tree yet, could you do a video on taking it down and how you store it and where?

[@Amy.Darley]

I will be :) My cleaning video will be up on Sunday!

[@ronnalambeth4695]

Great ideas on the clothes I do this 2 such a blessing

[@CarryGrace]

Great tips, Amy! Setting up for the week on Sundays is one of my favorite things. It makes the week so much smoother.

[@Amy.Darley]

thanks girl! I love it too!!!

[@marshasmith7124]

During the winter I stock up on snacks , juices, paper plates ect anything for picnics or I can use at the park . When it's Spring time I take 2 small rubber maid containers and fill one with everything for a picnic and one with balls, bubbles things they can play with. I stock these every week and keep them in my van during spring and summer. With ball practice, cheerleading practice we never seem get home to late or just a last minute want go to park and have a picnic you will have everything you need. We seem to live at the park during the warm months.I just found this so much easier an cheaper. You can get valintines and Christmas paper plates cheap LOL

[@briannem2936]

Two things where did you get the monthly meal planner calendar? & two when you plan for the month do you buy groceries weekly , or at the beginning of the month?

[@Amy.Darley]

I grocery shop every 2 weeks for majority of the stuff (I use Walmart grocery pickup). Then the off weeks, I do a quick stop at the grocery store for any produce or things that we still need (usually isn't much). Here's the link to the meal planning sheet that I download for free: www.frugalmomeh.com/2015/12/printable-meal-planner.html#_a5y_p=4883247

[@VJRmetal]

I have created a whole new playlist on KZbin based on your video. Your method is inspirational. Thank you for giving me all kinds of ideas.

[@ashlynngilliam4581]

Will you link your bullet/checklist planner?

[@ashlynngilliam4581]

One track mind here👍🏼🤣 Love your videos and tips ❤️

[@Amy.Darley]

thank you!!! haha! Here's the link where I have my planner saved: www.amazon.com/ideas/amzn1.account.AHOGJFOGKKKDQFXV5QX6YA2M2LBA/3NOB37XGE6UOV

[@mehrit1648]

Great video ilovet thanks for sharing happy New Year

[@Amy.Darley]

thanks so much!!!! Happy New Year to you!

[@masfeliciano4467]

Thank you so much for sharing! I love your techniques. 💛

[@rebeccaboatman6800]

Good video! I can’t believe how early your kids have to leave for school. We wake up around the time you are leaving.

[@Amy.Darley]

I know it's crazy!!! But they're done early so that's nice too.

[@ronnalambeth4695]

My problem is healthy meal planning any ideas would help I sometimes just get a tv dinner and I'm so tired of them

[@Amy.Darley]

I hear ya! I am going to be sharing some healthy meals very soon :)

[@staceyclark9566]

Thanks Amy for always giving me inspiration I just love you and your channel!❤️

[@eva-yz8zd]

I'm perpetuating for graduation and prom I might do some KZbin vlogging for you guys

[@ronnalambeth4695]

Love your videos and we learn so much from you

[@Amy.Darley]

thank you Ronna!!!

[@hannahj6008]

Hey ! I’m coming from the kasper crew . I actually found your KZbin/ Ig a few months ago and thought it was cool that ur from Savannah ga. I actually grew up in Richmond hill Ga. 💕

[@katiekephart7761]

Love it we do the same on outfits. Can you go over your home binder?

[@Amy.Darley]

Hey Katie! Here is a link to my Home Binder video that I did a WHILE back! I will try to do an updated video because I'm going to be adding a few more printables soon. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJzJZH-OZaeefrs

[@nicolemazur8766]

I love planners ❤️ so helpful planning your week

[@Amy.Darley]

totally agree!!!

[@dianarozell2166]

This video came at the perfect time. I love to get organized and refresh my routines to prepare for the new year. I love that monthly meal planner!! Where can I find something like that?

[@Amy.Darley]

Here is the one I use and it's free: Meal Planning: www.frugalmomeh.com/2015/12/printable-meal-planner.html#_a5y_p=4883247

[@golfaholics7777]

great ideas! another great video!

[@Amy.Darley]

thank you Melissa!

[@-living4jesus4ever-]

My tip we do with our kids is instead of TV in the morning let them listen to an audio Bible story to maximize shaping their hearts for Him before school. We LOVE Papa’s Bible Stories channel which is all free on Pandora. He’s fantastic! 👏🙏💗

[@paulacroly8865]

Some weeks I have it planned some I just wing it

[@Amy.Darley]

haha I understand that!

[@kateriastrickland6893]

I saw poppy seed chicken on your menu board. Is there anyway I could get that recipe either on you tube or Instagram?

[@lizs1295]

Awwwww, you mentioned your biggest fan 😍😍😍

[@Amy.Darley]

love you friend!

[@Bales007]

Sunday’s are my prep for the week day too! And I have a dry erase board on my fridge too!! I love it and it’s super helpful.

[@Amy.Darley]

I love that!!!!

[@nicolewaters3403]

How do you get the motivation to plan meals and such. I have full intentions of doing so but struggle bad.... 😭I love the thought of being organized but always get side tracked

[@Amy.Darley]

well, that's why I do it ONCE a month. I don't LOVE planning meals, but I know if I do it monthly, I don't have to get motivated to do it every week like most people do. I highly recommend trying it for a few months that way.

[@mallorypower41]

Just used your code for Home Chef, excited to try it ☺️

[@Amy.Darley]

yay!!! I hope you love it!!! Please come back and let me know :)

[@andreareese8114]

I always look forward to your videos :) Meal planning is the key to my sanity too!

[@Amy.Darley]

awe you're the sweetest!!!

[@jennifermorse2803]

I love your videos! I just plan nightly but I should do it for the whole week:) Jen

[@Amy.Darley]

thank you Jennifer! I only do it weekly because some nights are just crazy and I can't get the planning in.

[@paigehines3552]

I needed the motivation this week! These are great tips!

[@Amy.Darley]

yay!!!! thank you!

[@candacetripp277]

Would you mind sharing your notebooks and what all you write in them? 😍

[@Amy.Darley]

Hey Candace! Here is a link to my Home Binder video that I did a WHILE back! I will try to do an updated video because I'm going to be adding a few more printables soon. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJzJZH-OZaeefrs

[@kimberlycecil8692]

When my daughter was young we used checklists too, we even had one in the car, just as a double check! Didn't want to forget glasses, or soccer clothes or whatever after school sport gear we needed.

[@Amy.Darley]

Kimberly Cecil I love that! I need to start using more checklists with my kids and having them pack their own stuff! Haha

[@amystafki1284]

I wish home chef worked for us but the portions are too small for my boys. Sometimes I feel like I'm feeding a small army😁 Thanks for the tips. I love how organized you are. My new goal for 2019 ☺

[@Amy.Darley]

I completely understand that! and thank you!!!

[@CountryLissa]

I love the snack and outfit prep! In my town the kids wear uniforms to public school, which makes it so much easier! I really want to start meal planning. I have a 2 1/2 year old who is a picky eater so I'm sometimes making two meals to make sure she has something nutritious. Plus I think this will cut back on our grocery bill.

[@Amy.Darley]

I bet uniforms makes it soooo much easier! When I was teaching, my school system did uniforms too and I loved it!

[@ramonamcconnellalford4498]

I love these idea's especially the menu for the week on the refrigerator that's going to help me alot😍

[@Amy.Darley]

Ramona McConnell Alford awe thanks so much!!! I do love having it there! Then my husband doesn’t have to ask what’s for dinner either 😜

[@paulap818]

I do a lot of the same things as you :) I need to get better with my planner- I always only seem to use it for bills. I have a chalkboard I use for my menu. I like your snack creation with the pretzels, mini marshmallows and chocolate teddy grahams, I'm gonna have to try that!

[@Amy.Darley]

Yes! My kids love the teddy grahams. and you could switch up the flavors too :)

[@jessicabranan8691]

I loved this video ! I do basically the same thing, on Sundays. I also prep any fruits into containers for lunches, as well as make little baggies of pepperoni and cheese for after school snacks. It's so much nicer to be prepared, in the mornings ! I would do the clothes on Sunday, but I have two girls, and they love to argue about their outfit for the day !

[@Amy.Darley]

Jessica Branan I love that you prepare the lunch fruits and after school snacks too! I should do that so my kids eat a healthier snack!

[@jenn_81]

Such a great video - I love organization! I’m also OCD, so this video is so satisfying. I’m going to check out Bloom planners. I was about to purchase an Erin Condren planner, but the Bloom seems to have everything without purchasing “extra” like EC is. Thank you for sharing!!

[@Amy.Darley]

haha I love it! The Bloom Planners are a lot more simple than the EC planners. I think the EC planners are amazing, but I honestly don't do all the extra stuff. I'm pretty basic when it comes to planning.

[@mallorypower41]

I prep on Sunday’s very similar to you! We have 3 year old twin boys & a 5 year old girl. Mornings can be chaotic. I make their lunches & pick out their clothes the night before school. My husband & I make a meal plan for week on Sundays & discuss any nights he will be home late or early. I like to leave a note on the counter for anything that I need to be reminded of. I also make sure the kids backpacks are ready to go & we have groceries for the week if possible. I like your white board from Liz. So cute & functional. I’d like to try some new recipes after the new year. Maybe we will try home chef!

[@Amy.Darley]

I love that!!! Sounds like you have a. wonderful system!!!

[@beckyfischer7025]

Great video. I wish that when my son was young that I had been as organized as you are. You do a great job.

[@Amy.Darley]

Becky Fischer thank you Becky! I feel like if I don’t organize then my whole week is thrown off!

[@kan-zee]

😍 👍 🔥 3:03 Family Prepper....the best !! The Wife plans all the meals (breakfast/lunches/dinners) , and home cleaning duties for the family (cleaning bedrooms, bathrooms, basement, laundry room, play area, living room, kitchen, seating area, Windowed lounge area, library, hallways, stairs, and takes care of all the money. She is great with Budgetting & Bills. I plan family travel trips, and plan the drives for school events with gkids (hockey, lacrosse, music classes ,ballet, martial arts classes ,community events ..etc). I do the planning for our garden, and land maintenance, home repairs, .... Everything else we plan together......Restaurant choices, Pantry organization & rotation of supplies lists, 3 vehicle maintenance, family time, reading schedules, (yes we read to each other after 2 decades of marriage),

[@Amy.Darley]

wow you guys have an amazing system going on!!!! Sounds like you have an awesome marriage as well!!! I love it!

[@kan-zee]

@@Amy.Darley It took awhile for my wife to train me ,...but with her great patience & and endless compliments of my efforts (LOL)...I was changed into a new man, for the better. cheers

[@TheHuxHouse]

Love this video so much!! I need to be better about preparing on Sundays!!

[@Amy.Darley]

The Hux House thanks girl!!!!😘😘 it definitely helps throughout the week!

[@annegamble7698]

Wish I had been planning when my kids were young. Never too late! I hope to start planning our meals. I don't think the 26 and 21 year old sons want me to lay out their clothes!!

[@Amy.Darley]

Anne Gamble hahaha!!!! Yea I’m not sure they would either!

[@leighturley5663]

I was thinking the same thing. I never planned that well when my children were younger. My youngest is now 18 and I'm finally getting my routines together. I now meal plan and have cleaning schedules. I've learned so much. I wish we would've had KZbin back then.

[@sarahsiskin6780]

Anne Gamble yea I was never this organized and we both worked FT jobs! Life was always rushed. Lol. Mine are 31 and 37... I wish I had been this put together tho

[@brittanymulgrew9287]

Such a fun video, with lots of helpful tips. Loving your olive top. Do you know the name of it? I tried to find it through your Instagram link but couldn't track it down! Happy New Year!!

[@Amy.Darley]

It's one from Shein. It was one of the only ones that I got that I actually liked haha!

[@Apc9876]

Totally random question.... I love the length and style of your hair! Is it all one length?

[@Amy.Darley]

awe thank you! It's not, it kind of tapers to the front, so it's a little longer in the front than the back. Like a long bob.

[@oliviasnyder9991]

I plan almost exactly like this too Amy! #twiniswear :) . We lay out clothes in a 10 space shoe organizer that hangs in their closet (the boys share a room). My kids like the pretzel/marshmallow snack also but we use chocolate chips...teddy grahams is a good idea. On busy nights I like to plan crock pot meals. I'm starting to prep meals at nap time also or any time during the day I can because Brielle is so clingy before dinner time. Another thing that makes my mornings smooth is to pack the bags and lunch (minus the sandwich) the night before. Having the lunch packed a ready is a game changer for me.

[@Amy.Darley]

yes girl!!!! #twinsies I love it!!!! I need to get better about packing lunch the night before too. I have lunch items all in one drawer in the fridge so that does make it easier for me in the mornings and it doesn't take me long, but still.

[@Heelsandholster]

I love that you prep the snacks for the week. I just do them every night. Love this!

[@Amy.Darley]

Kristen Linton thanks!!!! Yes it does make it easier for me in the mornings. And my kids know they can’t pull a snack out of the weekly snack basket because it’s for school 😊

[@joannescollectiveco.4240]

❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰

[@kristinschaoticlife]

Our sunday prep is very similar! I do need to be better about laying clothes out for my boys though. Would make those school days so much easier. Home Chef is so good! Yum!

[@Amy.Darley]

Kristin's Chaotic Life yes!! I love having their clothes picked out. Sometimes Gracie June even helps me with her clothes. 😍

[@angiegracewellnessfreedom7544]

Prepping veggies for dinner ahead of time, or pre cooking things a day or two ahead help me! Getting all the laundry done at the beginning of the week and setting out clothes. :) We love Home Chef... great video, Amy!

[@Amy.Darley]

yes! I am going to try to do some more prepping of veggies early in the week as well. I may try to make that a Monday morning thing in the new year. We shall see haha! But I love that idea! And yes, Home chef is amazing!

[@joanneliulaykeng1416]

So much to do huh? U r v organised! Stay at home mom r actually v busy, we take care of everything for our family! Thanks for sharing!

[@Amy.Darley]

awe thanks Joanne! And yes, working moms, stay at home moms, work from home moms... mommin' is hard!!!