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Best Laid Plans

Planning 2027: Happy Friday!

No 5 on a Friday today, but BLP Live has been awesome so far as always. Back with more notes to come! Now off to lead others through Planning 2027 (and maybe sneak some of my own planning thoughts in at the same time…

November 6, 2026
Best Laid Plans

Cheers to #4!

Arrived at the beach last night and for the first time, I stayed at the hotel after our early arrival dinner! This arrangement is about 348734 times more relaxing than my usual practice of driving back and forth, and I will be doing it…

November 5, 2026
Goals

Looking Back: October

Previous Months: Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug / Sep Apparently this is now a 2026 ritual, and I like it!! BIG THINGS IN OCTOBER: I took a lot of call (8 days/31, plus Nov 1!). I worked REALLY hard to get things squared away for fall course…

November 4, 2026
Goals

Q5 Goals!

** Added because — having voted early — I actually forgot today was Election Day! But if Election Day applies to you (I know not all readers are US based!), I hope you can take the time to vote today if you haven’t already!…

November 3, 2026

Ep #327: Q5 Planning Party with the Happier Ladies!

Today’s episode is a special treat – inspired by my (in person) Q4 Planning Party with Kae! This time I invited Azizi and Malika from the Happier Ladies podcasts to join in for Q5! I guided them with questions leading up to the creation…

November 2, 2026
life Parenting

Call Day, Halloween Wrap-Up, and Q5 Theme

Halloween: Better than expected! Okay fine, I even managed to have some fun. A ended up staying home (she has a cold), C went to his friend’s house (Josh dropped off + picked up), and I handed out candy and walked around with G…

November 1, 2026
Weekend

Happy Halloween (and on to Q5!!!)

Policewoman + Convict . . . holding hands. Our Halloween has already shifted a bit as A is sick. C is going to a friend’s house and I am taking G around though I feel like I could also be getting whatever A has…

October 31, 2026
life

5 on a Friday: Music, Podcasts, & Voting PSA!

1- Interesting Podcast #1: How bots are overtaking humans on the internet. Super interesting! (Also, is anyone else bad at those visual Captchas? And anyone else feeling like the current AI tools could probably solve them pretty easily? Hmmm.) (This is one of the…

October 30, 2026
Goals

Q4 Review

Q4 = Back to School We are very close to the end of this Quintile, so I figured I’d do a goals wrap-up! Here was my original Q4 goals post, and this was my list: Here we go with some accountability / follow up!…

October 29, 2026
life Parenting

“Enjoy it while it lasts, mom.”

Mic drop moment: We were on the way to school today (Tuesday + Wednesday are my morning school driving days) and I was in a super happy mood. Halloween music was playing and I wasn’t even finding the Ghostbusters soundtrack to be particularly annoying…

October 28, 2026