So one of my major tasks for this summer is to get Little Bug’s paperwork all in order and to make sure he is making progress.  Well, how do you do that when all of you paperwork is in a box and all out of order.  Simple! Get it organized.  Doing that not so simple.

First of all I needed to pull out those binders I have other stuff in and get moving on this.  I emptied out several binders I had and went through a ton of paperwork and organized them all into binders for each of the school years past.  At the moment, everything in the binders is in the correct binder, in chronological order and every sheet is dated on the bottom right hand corner in pencil.  This at the advice a good friend whose helping me understand all this.  And by the way I am eternally grateful.  That photo shows you where I am right now. Not too bad although those don’t include any of his school or homework assignments yet.  I still have them in a box and need to incorporate them. Once that’s done, I’ll start indexing them.

Here’s what I’ve got left to do:

Yep, I’ve got to get that paperwork into that binder. Not gonna happen till I get some bigger binders.   Once that is done it will be time to create an index and tab each and every separate document.  Yes, it’s a lot of work but going to be well worth the effort and it is something I should have done ages ago.  If I want to make sure Little Bug is getting an appropriate education I need to know what’s going on and track it and I can’t do that correctly if I don’t keep everything in order.  So that’s my goal for this summer and from here on out.  Once the hard part is over, keeping up with it should be much easier and less time consuming.

But as you can see I am well on my way to getting and staying organized with all the special needs documentation.  So glad I kept EVERYTHING

So, how’s your documentation? Is in it order or in a box like mine was?  Can you find what you need when you need it?