Introducing Me... and the Blog!

Hey guys! You don’t know me from Adam... or Eve, so let me introduce myself. I am Ashley Seguin. And that fact means nothing to you. I have been happily married for two and half years to my sweet husband, Daniel ( who is every ounce the most perfect and wonderful human I have ever met). I am a senior at East Texas Baptist University, majoring in Secondary Social Studies Education. I graduate in May 2020! We are in the (very long and trying) process of building our first house right now while living in an apartment in the meantime. I have a beautiful Australian Retriever named Mandie Lorian (like the Star Wars character Mandelorian; we thought that was super clever).

Mandie Lorian Seguin - born March 1, 2019

Daniel and Ashley Seguin - Thanksgiving 2017

I am a nerd of nerds. I love history like no normal 25 year old woman should love history. I especially love the Middle East and ancient history, and it actively bothers me that many American history textbooks are at least as thick as world history textbooks. Like 243 years of history does not equate to 6,000. That’s just arrogant. My goal is to get my Masters in Middle Eastern history from Harvard University and my doctorate in ancient history from the same university. I have loved and dreamed of Harvard since I was little (say six). One of my biggest academic dreams is to be one of those expert historians on a BBC documentary. Ridiculous? That’s okay. This is my dream, not yours.

The point is: Hi, I am starting a fantastic blog on how to organize just about everything you can think of and how to plan everything from a wedding (which I did in 13 weeks, hello!) to what you’re going to eat tomorrow. I will talk about planning to achieve goals, meet deadlines, have a fantastic marriage/relationship, and anything else the readers suggest.

That being said, I would LOVE comments and suggestions. I want this blog to meet reader demand. I want this blog to be something that inspires and gives you a weekly organizational kick in the butt, but I also want this blog to give you some meat. What good are inspiration and pizzazz without some practical “How the heck do I do that” steps and tips and strategies? With that, I am going to TRY (no promises) to follow a similar format every week. First I will give you a fun, inspirational story/quote/thought for the week concerning planning and organization. Then I will share some thoughts and ideas about whatever topic we are discussing. Then I will give you the meat- 3-5 (or 10) practical and useful tips for how to tackle the organizational or planning goal we set.

So let’s get ready to be super stinking organized!

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Simple Ways to Organize for Moving

Good morning Friends! As we speak I am taking a brief break from unpacking endless moving boxes. Such fun! Sarcasm aside, it got me thinking that keeping your moving organized would be a fantastic blog topic. So, without further ado, here are my 5 Ideas for staying organized while moving. Idea #1: Keep a manifest (like an inventory log) When my family moved from North Carolina to Idaho (long story), we labeled all of our boxes with a number. In a notebook, we wrote down what was in Box #1, then Box #2, then Box #3, etc. You could also wait to number the boxes until after you have determined which are the most essential to the most non-essential, and then use the numbers as a rank-order system. Personally, unless you’re trekking across the country in a 20 year old, salt-eaten Ford Expedition toting a 6x10 trailer with ALL your family’s belongings (like I said, long story), then I think this method is a little TOO organized. And that is coming from someone who writes blogs a...

5 Meal Prepping Tips For the Beginner

Good Morning Friends! I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am so excited that this quarantine is over. OF course, things are to back to 100% normal, but they will be. This week, I really wanted to focus on meal prepping. We’ve talked about meal planning before in Meal Planning for the Average Woman blog, but Ive never discussed meal prepping. I also got a bunch of questions this week for tips on meal prepping, so I thought I would provide some of my tricks. First, before you start anything else, you need to know this: Meal prepping is not rocket science. It is simply intentionality. It requires you to think through what you want to eat long prior to the panicked half hour before dinner. It is not difficult, and it definitely does not have to be elaborate. There are some super simple ways to make meal prep so much easier on yourself. When I first started meal prepping, it took me all day on Sunday. Obviously I didn’t want to spend my entire Sunday slaving o...

Myth: Being Organized is a Personality

Good Morning Friends!!! I love it when people tell me they are “super organized” and then they walk in my house and see my 8 concurrent lists that direct every moment of my life. I just laugh a little when their eyes pop out of their heads and they realize that organization is the force that guides my entire life. It would be a sad and disappointing thing to say that those who are not naturally organized are not capable of being organized. That also just isn’t true. It may be a little more difficult and take more intentionality to be organized, but it is more than possible. Here are five tips for being organized when you’re just not naturally organized: Tip #1: Write everything down! I carry a notebook with me everywhere- everywhere! When I have an idea, I jot it down. When I think of yet another thing I need to do, I write that down too. This notebook is my sanity saver. I mean seriously, have you ever been on a date and then you get the inundation of all the things at h...

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