I think I found it.
I cleared the side of my refrigerator almost entirely of magnets (difficult, since magnets are the little trinkets I buy everywhere I travel to commemorate visits) and turned it into our command center.
There are four pages, three of them simply placed in page protectors so I can write with a wet-erase marker and adjust weekly. (I discovered I prefer wet erase to dry erase. They seem to have finer tips and write more clearly . . . and I don't smudge them off accidentally nearly as often.)
A friend from church gave us this class schedule poster (also wet/dry erase), thinking Levi would enjoy writing on the clocks. He would, but I stole it for myself! Please, please note that Mondays are the only day I have scheduled, and even this is a best-case scenario depending on the temperaments of all of my very young children. It's the only day of the week when we almost never have a change in plans -- no doctors appointments or trips to get milk or bi-monthly moms' group, etc. We go to Levi's piano lesson and come home. Silas doesn't take a morning nap very often, but he's generally happy to spend 45 minutes or so in his crib with some books and soft toys, and that frees me up to make sure we get in at least one math lesson and (hopefully) some sort of craft or activity. If I can succeed on Mondays, and the rest of the week falls apart, then at least I'll know we did something . . . which, at this age, is probably enough!
Also on the fridge I have these objective posters from abcjesuslovesme.com, the preschool curriculum I've borrowed heavily from over the past two years. We're not following it much this year, so not all of the objectives on the posters are relevant, but I still find it extremely helpful to be able to glance at the fridge and think, "oh yeah! We were going to play 'Mother May I?' this week!" when I'm out of ideas to keep everyone occupied. Owen has one of his own, but it was mostly blank this week so I didn't bother taking a separate picture.
In addition, Levi has his first official chore chart on the fridge. His only real non-school tasks are to straighten his duvet (which still takes considerable help on my part) and wipe the table after dinner (which, as a major bonus, requires me to actually clean off the table completely after dinner). Beyond that, I simply expect him to obey cheerfully and immediately when I ask him to help with a chore (usually unloading the dishwasher, putting away folded kitchen towels, and picking up odds and ends throughout the day).
Nothing fancy here -- just typed this up in Word.
For myself, I found the answer to all of my problems -- or at least one of them. I like the idea of a household notebook, and I have a few versions that I carry around, making various lists, but I have nowhere specific to put them. So all of that stuff (my meal plan, my grocery list, my to-do lists, etc.) is always lying around on the counter, wherever I happen to put it down at the moment. Enter: a wall-mounted magazine rack.
GENIUS. I might just get a few more of these and scatter them around the house.
Oh, and this was purchased on Amazon, because I had a gift card. There's a version at IKEA.
Now they have a spot, and a convenient, easy-to-access, not on the counter spot, and I can still glance at my daily chore list if I need a reminder. I assigned myself one big task per day, then left a box open for notes and reminders of other things that really need to be done. I realize we're only halfway through the first week, but so far I love it. I couldn't ever follow through with "mop on Monday, bathrooms on Tuesday," so on and so forth. But (for example) with a generic "clean first floor" on Tuesday, I can do the tasks that need to be done on the first floor, which may vary from week to week.
Proof that we actually did school, not just planned it. Gluing shapes!
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