I do most of my weekly planning on Sundays these days. I would LOVE to have a nice slow Friday afternoon to get everything figured out, but Friday is a full patient day for me and I do not have the energy to plan when I get home.
Saturday is usually a lot of sports-related shuttling, so Sunday tends to be when I “fill out the board” and also do my own weekly planning: tasks, workouts, meals, kid stuff, etc.
It’s not that pretty, but serves its purpose. (I need to give The Board its annual scrubbing).
I may switch to digital, but I don’t know – this has worked pretty well, honestly! I text a pic of the board to everyone with a phone on Sunday. Sometimes there are midweek additions which get texted as well, but there aren’t TOO many last minute add-ons.
Whenever we start a week WITHOUT The Board, everyone (husband, kids, nanny, me) feels uneasy.
(Which is kind of good – it makes me feel appreciated. And honestly, this is one way in which my labor is truly visible!)
Also, I’m not entirely sure I would process things as well if it were just showing a digital version of info that was already entered. NOT at all knocking it if you are loving your Skylight or Hearth! I totally can see how they would be better if, say, everyone in the household was very GCal-based or you have teens adding on throughout the week. That just isn’t us yet.
ANYWAY with everything going on last week there was no real board to speak of, but it will be completed very soon.
Adding to the Fun Record
I wanted to try to attend at least 12 Long Form Performances in 2026. As noted below, “must be device free + must be awake”. Those are the only real requirements. (And be like, one thing. Binge-watching 3 episodes of TV doesn’t count).
ANYWAY we went to Project Hail Mary last night and it was awesome. Definitely a fun one to catch in the theaters. I didn’t really know the plot so it was fun to be surprised (and it was also fun to have A next to me, who had read the book and was watching to see my reaction to certain reveals).
I guess I am slightly behind schedule of 1/month but we have a slew of concerts coming up (2 in May) so I will be adding to the list. (Hmm, I didn’t include the a capella concert that I was part of, but maybe that counted too!)
Other mundane things I probably would not have written about without daily posts:
- I booked more points travel – we are now BOOKED for every flight to and from Hawaii (4 in total: MIA to Maui, Maui to Kauai, Kauai to Seattle, and Seattle to FLL). I used a combo of points (AA Points + Atmos Rewards) + $ for these, but overall feel like we did REALLY well (came out to ~$800/person total for all of that travel). NOW ready to start on excursions/activities + restaurants — it’s time!
- I took G to a bday party and had fun catching up with the parents, esp one mom I’ve known since the kids were under 2. I also got a bunch of red ant bites but I will survive. (They STUNG, but hopefully they won’t be as itchy as mosquito bites are for me. I guess I will find out.)
- Our house is kind of a disaster but I did clean out the files/papers on my desk. I have been slowly working with the home organizer (Konmari-trained!) too and it’s been great. FINALLY I am making progress on this longstanding goal — the bathrooms are now done and it’s so satisfying.
OKAY off to do the board and then headed to Miami Beach to hang with Josh’s dad for dinner.
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