{resources home} 12. Take an hour and power through your appointments for the next six months.
WINTER HOME GUIDE 2016
BUYING & PROTECTING BURROUGHS, ANNE – MONTAGUE, MILLER & CO. SEE AD PG 54 LEFFLER, GREG — STATE FARM INSURANCE SEE AD PG 21 LORING WOODRIFF REAL ESTATE SEE AD PG 19 MCLEAN FAULCONER INC. SEE AD PG 71 RAMEY, DENISE – LONG & FOSTER SEE AD PG 56 THE SPICER TEAM SEE AD PG 54
FURNISHING & MAINTAINING CHARLOTTESVILLE GAS SEE AD PG 57 CHARLOTTESVILLE WATER CONSERVATION SEE AD PG 59
Go ahead and schedule all the stuff that you’ll need done to keep yourself healthy and looking beautiful. You can probably lock in appointments for health care related things—dental cleanings,
mammograms,
check-up,
dermatologist
general scan—for
MIRACLE METHOD SURFACE REFINISHING SEE AD PG 55
the year. Book your haircut, color and
STELLAR REMODELING AND DESIGN SEE AD PG 59
the electronic version of ink is), in
any other grooming appointments as far ahead as they’ll let you, and note the appointments, in ink (or whatever your schedule. A short spurt of phone calls and planning can provide huge dividends.
DECORATING & ORGANIZING ATTAINABLE SPACES SEE AD PG 56
13. Pick a color. A
lot
of
organizing
experts
recommend assigning each of your
CHARLOTTESVILLE ORGANIZING SEE AD PG 69
children a color, so that everybody
CLASSIC FURNITURE SEE AD PG 2
Alex while everything green belongs to
knows that the blue towels, sheets, school folders and the like belong to Emma. You, however, as a less mercurial adult, could pick a color for yourself, in order to head off the inevitable swiping
FAMILY PETS
of your items. This is one organizational
GEORGETOWN VETERINARY HOSPITAL SEE AD PG 27
my ponytail holders at hand. With my
PAMPERED PETS SEE AD PG 23 PET SUPPLIES PLUS SEE AD PG 3
GRAND HOME FURNISHINGS SEE AD PG 55
tip that I love. It ensures I always have three long-haired daughters, ponytail holders disappear so quickly it makes me believe in Borrowers. So, when I buy myself ponytail holders, I get them in purple, a color, oddly enough, that none of my girls like. The girls can have every other color, but if it’s purple, it’s mine and belongs in my drawer.
14. Wake up a little earlier.
SANDRIDGE DISPOSAL SEE AD PG 56
Dianne
Bearinger,
who
works
as a tutor and runs MotherWorks
BUILDING & REMODELING MILMONT GREENHOUSES SEE AD PG 23
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Charlottesville, a post-partum doula service, spends her days tending to the needs of others. In order to pull together her day, Bearinger gets up a half-hour earlier than her kids, but not necessarily to seize the day with full force. Instead, Bearinger recommends taking this time for yourself—in her case, for mediation and writing—to help set the tone for the day and provide a gentle way to ease into whatever the day holds in store. It
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