Day Runner has just introduced a new line of family organizational tools called Family Matters. Parent Bloggers sent me a sampling of the products to review and share the results with you.

Out of all the products, the agenda book is my favorite. The agenda I bought last year is way too small – when I bought it I was thinking I wouldn’t need much space because exactly how much can a mother of two toddlers plan for any given day?! Ha. Ha. Ha. Between doctor’s appointments, play dates, and blog-related tasks, each days was overflowing with scribbled notes.

This Family Matters appointment book is large – each page is 9”x11”), with plenty of space to write for each day. I particularly like that there is a To-Do list area for the entire week because – and do I really need to spell this out – there are some tasks it takes all weeks for mothers to find time to complete!

Each day’s space is divided by color into five columns so you can track activities by person, time, task, etc. For example, I can keep track of Jonathan in one column, things I do with the boys in another, blog-related things in yet another, and still have a column for the things I do by myself (why is that column usually empty?).

The activity folders and storage cases (all color-coded as well) will be excellent in organizing our homeschooling endeavors!  They're easily accessible for both adults and children.

I did not receive the wall info center, but it looks like a good idea – and mounted on the wall away from writing-implement-obsessed toddlers!

We did not use the erasable wall planner, mostly because we don’t have a good place to put it, but also because I want all calendar-related things in one place: my agenda book! I don’t want to have to check two places every time I need to know what’s going on this week.

The erasable door reminders are cute and I envision the boys getting a kick out of them in a few years. But since Jonah is currently getting spanked at least twice daily for opening my desk drawer to get at my markers, we’ll be storing these particular items for the foreseeable future.