Delivery Fees
Main Centers (JHB, CPT, PTA, PE, EL, BLM, DBN, GEORGE) – door to door R75 per delivery
Regional (Non-main centers) – door to door R115 per delivery
Any area – Paxi store to store R65 per delivery
Collection from Capri Village Fish Hoek – Free
FREE DELIVERY for orders over R1000
Special FEATURES of the MOM Diary (13th Edition)
- A5 Size
- Page-per-day weekdays
- Saturday and Sunday on one page
- Double page spread Monthly Planner at a glance
- 2-3 Pages Bullet Journal at beginning of every month
- Daily prompts to live your best and most positive life
- Daily Gratitude Section
- Personal and emergency details
- Dot Grid “notes and doodles” pages to write, draw, design or paste in whatever you want to
- Phone numbers – personal and work
- Monthly Cash Flow Planner
- 12 x Quick and easy recipes that the whole family will love
- Handy information page
- Family important information
- 2023 and 2024 Year Planner
- January 2024 Month Planner
- Place to paste class lists
- Kid’s Sports and Cultural Schedule
- Basic First Aid Info
- Instructions on how to get the best out of your diary
- Tips on how to create balance in your life through organisation and goal setting
- “Thought for the week” inspirational quotes
- Lovely textured material cover with floral full wrap around design
- Available in four beautiful floral designed colours & two funky new designs
- EXTRA BONUS SECTION consisting of the following: my bucket list, gift ideas, borrowed and loaned items, We also have things that make me smile, my career, fun and adventure, my projects, health, planning, self-care, home, habit tracker and a birthday calendar.
What is the difference between the MOM and the WOW Diary?
Read about the differences in our blog post
How did the MOM Diary come about & why is it such a good planner?
In 2010 Alison Deary, a mom to 4 sons, was faced with the challenge of her kids all being at different schools. Because she had a big gap between her first two and second two kids, she ended up with one in pre-school, one in primary school, one in high school and the oldest at college.
That meant a lot of careful planning, dealing with 4 different institutions, school meetings all being on different dates, sports and other activities happening at each of the schools and then keeping track of tests, exams, projects, cakes sales, tuck shop duties, social activities………and the list goes on!
Apart from that, Alison was running a business from home, having staff to manage and fitting in her own work hours too.
As if that was not enough, having given up smoking and the weight starting to pack on, Alison had taken up running quite seriously and at the same time joined her younger kids at their karate class.
There was a lot going on for her back then and she needed to find a way to manage all of this in a way that would keep her from getting totally overwhelmed. After looking around for a suitable woman’s diary to do her planning in, and finding nothing, she decided to create a diary that would help her with the challenge of managing the household, kids and work and her own personal commitments, all at the same time.
Being a goal driven person, she also wanted to incorporate her goals into the diary, so that they could become as much part of her life as her chores were. Even her daily gratitude was given a prime spot in the diary.
How can the MOM Diary (woman’s diary) help YOU with planning
The MOM (Most Organised Mother) 2023 Diary system incorporates many helpful solutions to organisation, time management, budgeting, meal planning & recipes, record keeping and convenience. All in a simple, effective and easy to use format.
13 Years later, the MOM Diary is still an invaluable tool, and the woman’s diary of choice, to so many women in and around South Africa. And one of the bonuses is this is a locally manufactured product, which means not only is it helping moms stay organised, it is also helping the local economy.
What has changed in the 2023 MOM Diary?
Although the basis of the MOM Diary will probably never change, i.e. the layout of the daily pages, we decided with the 2023 Diary, to make a few changes – either to make it aesthetically more beautiful, or to make your planning experience more effective.
Because we want to keep this woman’s diary looking fresh every year, we have made subtle font and design changes in the 2022 Diary. We have Howard to thank for these beautiful fresh ideas.
As always, we come up with 12 new exciting recipes each year. We are really trying to cater to everyone’s needs with some vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, etc. We hope we have nailed it!
Our Monday motivation is handpicked by Alison each year. 2023 features a lot of self love and self kindness quotes, clearly just what we all need during this time that we are going through in the world.
We really hope that you love your 2023 Diary and would appreciate any feedback that you want to send our way.
10 Reasons you should own a MOM Diary
- The MOM Diary has been the diary of choice for thousands of South African Women over the last 12 years
- The MOM Diary promotes balance and flow
- You will have all information at your fingertips
- Never have to worry about forgetting things
- It is your organisational hub
- Well laid out and functional diary
- It’s so pretty, you will want to carry it everywhere with you
- It is the best woman’s planner to keep track of everything in your life
- By buying a MOM Diary, you are supporting a local company and the manufacture industry in SA
- It is a tried and tested system that works for women
Desiree (verified owner) –
I am in love with the Mom diaries! Bought one for myself and one as a gift for a friend and she loves it! Thank you so much for excellent service!
Tina Subel (verified owner) –
I am completely impressed with the mom diary. It’s what I’ve been looking for, for ages.
It has everything I need to keep organised, of my own things, my husbands things and for my 2 kids.
I was so impressed with it, that I bought another as a Christmas gift and I shared the link to this product on a few Whatsapp groups.
Thankyou so much for an awesome product to help keep me sane through all the chaos.
I will look forward to the new designs and updates for 2022
Alison Deary (verified owner) –
Thank you so much for your review and for sharing with your friends and contacts – we really appreciate that kind of support!
Simone Chetty (verified owner) –
Excellent quality and such a great gift.
Dee –
Love this diary. It lays flat. Has a beautiful cover and the page a day is just wonderful. The paper quality is also good and my gel pen doesn’t bleed through. I can’t say enough about how great it is. And at such a good price point anybody can afford to have one. I am definitely giving this as gifts for Christmas this year.
Dalene Rossouw –
I purchased my mom diary for 2021, when it arrived I absolutely fell in love with it immediately. So days passed and unexpectedly my ribbon fell out, I thought OK I’ll let the company know, as this is a fault from the printers /binders. A day or 2 later I received an email from one of the ladies working at “The Papery”. After explaining the story and some photos, with out any question they asked for my address and posted me a brand new diary and a very lovely pen to go with it.
Best costumer service I ever experienced.
You have a customer for life. Yet again that you ladies for the awesome work you do.