Queen Bees Linkup - Waiting on a Queen Bee

Welcome to the March Queen Bees linkup where my friend Katy and I encourage you to share a woman in your life who inspires you! This month the prompt is honoring a woman who is organized! We developed a few prompts for the entire year to help you with ideas but please feel free to showcase any woman in your life!

So this month there was no other person coming to my mind immediately accept my friend Holly from While I’m Waiting. Here she is doing what she loves cheering on the Aggies with her adorable family.

Holly is a list maker and I am always impressed with how she keeps things running in their home with lists. A few things I have observed and/or stolen over the years of knowing her that I love.

Contact Information – Holly always has this handy for all of the important people in her life. Not only does she keep the name, address, phone number(s) and email address in the contact on her phone but she also makes herself little notes there. Favorite drink, favorite flowers, favorite place to eat, birthday; it’s all there at her finger tips! How many times have I wanted to grab a quick treat for a friend but couldn’t remember something personal and special? Well this little tip from my girl helped me out so much!

Mailing labels – Holly keeps her Christmas card address list in an excel file (hello after my own heart!) which is then so easy (she’s laughing here) to mail merge into word and print quick labels. I have used this method for my overall list which has made creating other mailing lists for graduations and such a breeze. Feel free to email me and I’ll send you a template!

Weekly calendar – I have always loved that she prints (or emails) a weekly calendar to her family so everyone is on the same page and knows what’s going on for the week.

She makes lists….lots and lots of lists. I always love getting into her car to see her little list of to dos sitting there with items crossed off so neatly.

So all of these things have always impressed me and years ago when she made a move to a new home she shared the book It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff by Peter Walsh with me and I learned so many great tips. Y’all, this new book she has shared I cannot wait to read because it is changing her life for sure! You will have to hop on over and read the post she has written the past 8 weeks or so as she is working her way through her house using the Kon Mari method.

Here is just a little peek at my favorite so far….her closet transformation!

I cannot even begin to tell you how cute my friend has looked since finding all the clothes that bring her joy and ditching the rest!

I’d be lying if I said my very favorite thing was not her ability to organize a vacation! I seriously would go anywhere with this chick. If there is a site to be seen she is going to find it and have it in a typed up travel guide that has been taken to be bound!!! Will you do everything on this list? Probably not but having a guide when we went to NYC for her 40th birthday with endless options all organized with phone numbers and addresses by the area of the city we were in was nothing short of amazing. I really do think this is an area she could really do professionally.

I asked Holly how would she say she handles the “in betweens” in her life and here is what she had to say!

Hmmm…how do I handle all the “in betweens”? Sometimes, not so great! While purging and re-organizing the house, I’ve learned that I’m really, really good at putting things off. If I don’t have the time to do something like I envision it, I tend to file it away. BUT, when I AM on my A game, I find that making lists is key. Take for instance this past weekend. I made a master list of all the things I wanted for us to complete and then split them out between the two days. There’s just something about crossing something off a list. Granted, we didn’t complete everything but we did get lots finished. All the “in betweens” will always be there – I just check them off one thing at a time!

See….what did I tell ya?!! The list making works! So today I’m sharing this girl with you all so you can soak up some of her goodness.

Thanks so much Holly Mac for being my Queen Bee! Love you!

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