READYYYY
I’m ready for a break!
I do have some podcast scripts to write tomorrow (including my 2025 Recap / 2026 Goals eps for BOBW — no pressure). And I obviously have to bake some pies. But otherwise, I am ready for lots of home/family time!
(Well, also the December 1st newsletter isn’t going to write itself, will it. But I will aim to get that done tomorrow too!)
I have been in Planning Overdrive lately, too. Once I got my PL requests straight I wanted to make sure the things we actually wanted to DO in our PL time could happen. Example: we are going to ski in the Poconos for a couple of days in February (Blue Mountain!), but I had booked nothing.
Luckily, it appears that places to stay in the area are pretty plentiful.
ANYWAY. I’m all over the place. Our nanny experienced a sad family event and will be away another week after Thanksgiving, so now I’m also gearing up for that (I have already cancelled various things and asked our very kind neighbor with kids at the same school to do pickup). AND with the 4-day weekend leading up to the week I can get ahead on meal prep / stocking fridge / etc.
I think this is one of those “One Day At A Time” seasons.
I need to be careful not to get TOO ahead of myself. I will try to choose one FUN thing to do each day with the kids over break and keep each day’s to do list realistic. (Umm if there is one tactic that I teach and struggle with repeatedly, it’s adding too much to a list. I am at peace with a list that is not entirely completed on a given day, but if the ratio of done: not done is TOO low, it can get depressing.)
I will leave you with 3 pix from my phone:
I felt like this was so esoteric sounding it deserved a pic and share with my family.
DEVOURED THIS. This book was my JAM. Scenario that gradually unfolds, family drama, AI, smart people, rich people behaving badly — it was total candy but went a bit deeper as well. One of my favorites of the year.
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Absolutely smashed Culpability – read it in two days at breakneck speed. Now what!?
I hope my book club picks culpability because it sounds like it would make for a great discussion!
I started to fill in my clever fox planner yesterday with my work travel. My calendar is kind of filling up. GULP! I am really trying to limit myself to 2 trips/month so I’m already fully booked for at least 5 months. It’s going to get tricky when we start to travel more in the future. Filling my calendar also reminded me that our kids start school on Sept 8 and 10 next year because Labor Day is 9/7! Gah. That is so dang late. My younger will be in K and they start 2 days later. I wish it was the opposite because it’s way harder to have him home v his older brother.
Sorry to hear about your nanny’s family emergency. I’m glad you have another family that can help with school pick up!! Thank goodness you are out of the car seat stage of life!!
I really want to check out Culpability–i hadn’t heard of it before!
Culpability was SO GOOD! The Displacements was also so good, but might hit a little too close to home (it’s about a giant hurricane hitting Miami and Houston). But similar rich people behaving badly, family drama, etc. mixed together with an actual existential issue (climate change).
I had never heard of Culpability, but when I put a hold on it I was 48th in line! So clearly other people have heard of it. We just lost our other library lending app (Boundless), so the wait times on Libby are going to be even longer than before. Boo!
I’m also all over the place right now. Kind of struggling actually, but mostly with my own expectations, which I have control over! I hope you find some of what you need during the break, and that the next week is not too hard without your nanny’s help. Good luck!