JUNE CONTAINS:
- 15 clinical weekdays (including a seven-day call stretch. I couldn’t split them all, unfortunately!)
- 2 clinical weekend days
- 7 creative work days
- 4 “regular” weekend days (ie, neither Josh nor I working)
- 2 “Josh on call” weekend days
- ZERO travel (!!!)
I don’t think I’ve had a month with zero travel in a long time. I am 100% a-okay with that. So is our YNAB vacation fund.
JUNE SPECIAL EVENTS:
- Dance show (and extra rehearsals) – this week/weekend!
- 8th Grade Graduation (this week, during the week)
- Bdays: Josh’s dad, my dad, and G, our nanny (all within a 5 day stretch!)
- Father’s Day
- Ariana Grande (I do not yet have tickets but I am planning on getting them at the 11th hour)
Honestly it’s a pretty clinically heavy month. My two biggest priorities are to work on getting an appt to discuss strategies for my PMDD (which continues to rage — I am just Doing It Anyway with respect to all things even goal-setting, but my head is in a very blah place) and to try doing some strength workouts at an actual gym (thinking an LA fitness that isn’t far).
I think this looks like more than it is (with items like “find some summer TV” and “seek out good ice cream” making the cut).
A few of these:
- TRACK TIME. You all know I am very off and on with this but maybe it’s the effect of Big Time and maybe it was the fact that Kae uses 15 minute increments to track that somehow made it feel more doable. I really want some more accurate and complete time data to understand things about work and #momlife and all the things so . . . I have to collect said data. In the past I’ve used Toggl (app) but this time I’m just using Apple Notes on my phone that I then transfer into a Google Sheet, and it’s working well. (I may or may not feed these sheets to Chat or Claude for analysis; have not yet decided)
- SUMMER FAMILY READING. Pretty much everyone in our house likes reading now (maybe one exception, but this person is still willing to read and I think they will enjoy reading when the right books are selected). I want to go to B&N in addition to packing library holds lists (esp for me + G since she will fly through hers) and get books people are psyched to read. I don’t know that we’d designate a certain time, but my gut feeling is that many kids will actively CHOOSE reading if screens are not an option during certain hours (remember, this is our bad-weather hunkering down season). Will do a post later asking for kid book recs! C is currently into the Dungeon Crawler Carl series but they all need additional ideas.
- “DUKE THING” = med school class reunion. I’ve never gone to any of these but this one is our 20th AND Josh’s dad’s 50th (??) I think so I think we all going together, and then we got asked to email the class and try to drum up other people. So, that’s happening. Honestly though I feel like there is less ‘metaplanning’ for than usual. We have a ton already happening for the rest of 2026 and I am not ready to think too deeply about 2027 (except to ruminate in a fun way more about a summer Italy/Switzerland trip).
Off to work on that whole Inbox Zero thing . . .
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How is A feeling about graduation? Will she change schools for high school? We’re also planning a big reading summer. T’s new school has after lunch reading everyday which helps a lot.
Our schools go until the end of June so it’s a really busy month here. I’ve got 5 days on campus, an overnight to London, a workshop to run + all the end of school year stuff. And Elisabeth + co are coming to Scotland soon, we’re very excited to host. My husband, son and MIL go away for 3 nights at the end of the month, so I’ll have a nice solo break before the camp/travel juggle starts. Rather than a month list – knowing it was so fragmented – I made a June – August list. Although I’ve got a secondment application pending, so that might upend all the plans.
15 clinical days is a lot. My condolences.