Organizational Idiot

I am organizationally challenged, to be politically correct in my terminology.  I am not putting myself down by any means, just being honest.  I frustrate myself continually with my incomplete memory that feels as if I have Swiss cheese for a brain.  So, I have begun to monthly menu plan.  This is a GOOD thing.  It is forcing me to get into all the locations that I have stashed miscellaneous recipes.  And they are in odd locals.

The Martha Stewart Silver Box.  Do not think that this is some fancy schmanchy thing.  DH bought it for me the 1st year we were married and I have kept it.  I stick all the odds and ends of recipes in it.  Grandmothers recipes that I had in her old box.  Clippings from magazines.  Copies from friends.  Print outs from the Internet.  Short hand notes of my own.

 All this thinking on organization, planning, executing, budgeting, evaluating, collecting takes me back to Blooms Taxonomy.  I studied Elementary Education in my undergrad and Teaching English as a Second Language in my graduate work.  I am a well educated woman.  Now I am an at-home, homeschooling mom.  I do not collect a pay check.  However, I KNOW that the education that was purchased on the backs of my parents is being used well.  Blooms Taxonomy of Thinking really proves it. 

Blooms Taxonomy of Education Wheel

If you really look at the wheel, you see lots and lots of verbs.  Each verb is an activity for learning.  I MUST be decently educated and using my education as an at home mom because I do these activities EVERY SINGLE DAY! The center is low level thinking.  Center, mid level thinking.  Outer, high level thinking to put this thing uber simple.

Good Grief!  The more I look at that  graph, the better I feel about myself.  My brain is exploding with thoughts of the applications of being a mom and how high our thinking skills MUST be in order to even be marginally successful!.  Add in homeschooling and we are in the heights of high level thinking.

Today, I began, again, to collate my repertoire of main dishes.  I have forgotten so many in 15 years of marriage.  I dug in the Martha Stewart box.  I dug around on Pinterest.  I looked on book shelves.  I have not even begun to look in old magazines.  This is a HUGE job.  What will the ultimate out come be?  A cookbook?  ick.

So far, I am in the possession of 72 main dish recipes.  Only 72.  How can that be?  Hmmmm.  Gonna have to go and acquire more knowledge so I can combine, design, and report back to you later.  (psst, can you ID the level of thinking I just listed.  Hint:  Look for the verbs)