New School Year, New MomAgenda

Once your kids head off to school, your new year moves from January 1 to whenever their schools start. Might as well change your planner to reflect that, so you can pencil in post-December activities without carrying a separate agenda. MomAgenda, the gold standard of parental planning, has its August 2009-December 2010 desktop agendas ($42) available in some brand-new colors — royal blue, tangerine, purple — and its usual fuchsia, chocolate and lime. The desktop version features a week-at-a-glance spread that has space for your appointments and up to four kids’ activities (check out a PDF here). There’s even a row for planning dinner, or at very least, to remind you that the fam will want it when they eventually return home. And speaking of back-to-school, MomAgenda posted a handy — and intimidatingly thorough checklist (download here) of nearly everything you’d want to do before sending the lil’ ones off.