It is time to begin thinking spring.  Here are some things you need to plan for:

• Look for Spring Entertaining options: Easter, Passover, a spring garden party, a Mother's Day brunch, the first cookout of the season, a girls' night spring fling, a craft party.
• Schedule significant blocs of time for major spring tasks including spring cleaning, planting your garden, switching over from winter to summer clothes and linens, and doing outdoor cleanup after a difficult winter.  These tasks are too time-consuming to try to work in to your ordinary routine.
• Try to simplify your cleaning routine since, as the weather gets better, you'll want to spend more time outside.  That means less time for indoor chores.
• As you get ready for spring cleaning, try to de-clutter as much as possible.  The more open a space is, the cooler and more summery it will seem.
• It's very important to maintain a calendar, even if you stopped after the holidays.  With bridal and baby showers, weddings, graduations, end of the school year events, and the like, without n up-to-date calendar, you can find yourself double and triple booked.