What Do You Have in That Bag?!?

I have a bag that I carry, known around here as Mom's Bible Study bag.  Recently I've been asked by numerous people, "What do you carry in that bag?" So I thought I'd show you!  Here's the top view. 

 It's a Thirty-One bag, I'm not sure that they even make it any more?  But it is super sturdy!  I don't carry a purse, the red pouch is my wallet and I just throw everything else in this tote.  There several pockets on the outside, this side is where I keep my nametag for Bible Study Fellowship.

 On this side I keep my Post-It note pads and apparently my cheese sticks.

 Front view - I should call my bag June...as in June is busting out all over.  Except she isn't.  All the seams are perfectly intact.

 Big books - I've got my Beth Moore Daniel study, a borrowed copy of Dianne Craft's Brain Integration Therapy, my planner, the green folder has my Bible Study Fellowship work in it, my Sunday school teacher's guide, an old Beth Moore Living Beyond Yourself that I'm copying notes out of, and a BJUPress catalog.

 I've got some Happy Mail in there, ready to mail out.

 Small books - my Bible, "Still Alice" (highly recommend), "A Thomas Jefferson Education" (also highly recommend), notebook, True Woman Manifesto (this always gets moved to last on my priority list, unfortunately).

 I've got two spiral bound notecard books, for scriptures for memory work, my wallet, my earbuds, van key with adorable keychain made my talented good friend, Jill and pencil pouch.

My pencil pouch is a bit on the full side as well.  I'm pretty particular about my writing utensils, I like a dull pencil but I really like these mechanical pencils, the lead thickness is 1.3mm, whereas a standard mechanical pencil is 0.7mm.  Standard pencil lead always breaks on me, but not these.  They are great!  I've also got my colored pens and watercolor pencils for Bible journaling, lots of medium thickness ballpoint pens, highlighter, and pretty Sharpie.

So, now you know, when you see me schlepping my Bible study bag around, what's in there!  I enjoy having everything right in one place.  If I get a chance to head to the coffee shop to work on Bible study homework, it's all in there.  When it's time to drive to guitar lessons and sit for an hour, I'm prepared.  When I settle in to my favorite chair to study my Bible, I've got everything I need gathered together.  If I want to go to bed early, I just lug the bag upstairs. 

Do you have a special space where you always read and study or do you have a basket or bag you store all of your needful things in?

Another Travel Tip

I shared my vast and  profound {cough, snort, guffaw} traveling-with-small-children knowledge back in the fall. 

This past weekend I accidentally found another great tip and thought I'd share it with you.  We had the privilege to attend a home school convention on the other side of our state and The Reader had prepared a list of the states prior to leaving so he could play the License Plate game.  Problem was....he left the list at home.

I pulled out my daily planning calendar, which has maps of the country and world in the back of it, and handed it back to The Reader.  He put a check in a state every time he saw a license plate from that state....AND he worked on his geography and state location at the same time.  Double win.

No more lists for us - I'll bring copies of the map of the U.S. from now on.

Randomness

I bought this the other day.  It smells like my deodorant.  Now my hands constantly smell like I have had them in my armpits. 

This post has all but gone completely by the wayside.  I am 10 weeks pregnant and the only thing I've been intentional about lately is not getting sick, sleeping way too much, and making sure the boys at least have access to food.  That is changing today.  Back on the horse.

I discovered this the other day.  I have been drinking the lemon flavor since I discovered Sonic.  I don't think I will ever go back.  This is deliciousness plus deliciousness combined.  I am currently sipping on my second one of the week.

I found a big blob of blue toothpaste on my bathtub (why do they make kid's toothpaste blue?  It seems no matter the flavor, it's blue) the other day.  I didn't even inquire. 

I just heard that Laura Ingalls and Steve Urkel are going to be on this show.   I will admit I have seen this show a few times here and there but never followed it.  This might be the season I have to see it.

Our curriculum for next school year arrived from here, here, and here this week.

We were eyeball deep researching and learning more about this all week.

I had over 600 read emails just sitting in my inbox so I cleaned it out and now I only have 11 in there.  At least something in my house is cleaned up, even if I'm the only one who sees or knows.  Cleaning from the couch - when all you can do is all you can do.