Last DAY!!! I brought Target gift cards (and thank you notes!) around to the teachers yesterday morning. There was nothing Pinterest-y about it, but if I were a teacher I would prefer a pile of versatile gift cards to really anything else, so that…
Best Laid Plans
Ep #149: June Q&A: Tracking Health Details, Photo & Memory Organization, Planners for Kids, and Planning on the Fly
Show Notes 1- Small portable planner to track migraine-related details? (Top pick = Hobonichi Weeks! amazon / jetpens) 2- Ways to deal with photos + memory keeping (esp with a newborn)? 3- Planner/collection system to deal with family’s increasingly complex medical needs? YES to…
Limping to the finish . . . I’m so ready for school to end. I really am. But I will say G’s dance recital was the cutest thing ever, and I smiled a lot. So did she! I wish I had a better shot…
1- LOOKING FORWARD. I felt super emotional this morning. A family from the school who became our good friends is moving out of the country and their last school day was today. They have 3 kids – one in each of A/C/G’s classes. A…
New Month = New Phone Background Once again, I downloaded mine from The Everygirl. I chose another image (fresh papayas, no calendar) for my home screen. I find having seasonal images on my phone is so calming and a useful reminder of the passage…
Summer Thoughts I’m enjoying all of the summer-themed posts: here are two from just yesterday!Our summer is going to be . . . well . . . FULL. It is what it is. Camp: Each kid is doing 5 weeks of camp total. For…
I raced a 5K Sort of! I mean I did race it, but no taper or anything (and a hard 17 miler Saturday) so it wasn’t a goal race of sorts. Still, I wanted to see if I could run under 8 minute pace.…
BLP Episode #148: Curating Summer, Digital Detox + More This episode is all about the ways we might think about planning and curating our summers, from travel to reading lists to work projects to media and more. In between all of the family fun…
Weekly Workouts M: 8 mi, about half with group, ave 9:40/mi. I felt kind of terrible on this run! T: 6.5 mi with 4 x 20 second hill sprints + 30 min full body strength W: 7 mi total, 3 mi warmup outside, then…
1- HOLIDAY WEEKEND! This one totally snuck up on me, since I took 2 days off last week. Neither of us has call, either, so that’s particularly exciting. As of now, we have: I feel like we need something for tomorrow . . .…