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  • Habits life

    Quality Time

    EVENING WIN: playing Monopoly with the big kids (and Josh, who made it home just as we were starting!). Our nanny took G home just for fun and so we seized the moment to…

    March 31, 2021
  • Habits Parenting

    New Phone: Strategy of Clean Slate?

    I am a firm believer in the strategy of the clean slate, as Gretchen Rubin has described it. I am self-aware enough to know that I am particularly susceptible to this phenomenon. This is…

    March 26, 2021
  • Habits

    Routines vs Ruts Etc

    Okay! Trying again. Hopefully today’s thoughts will not get unceremoniously deleted. Laura and I are actually recording a podcast episode today about getting out of ruts, which spurred my interest on this topic. Because…

    February 18, 2021
  • Goals Habits life Reading

    5 on a Friday

    1- Annabel got a palate expander. She has never been one to be particularly zen about discomfort (understatement) so . . . as one might imagine, this has not been a seamless transition for…

    January 15, 2021
  • Habits life

    Back To It

    Today is the first day in forever that feels normal. And oh, does it feel good! I just had my lovely usual AM routine of reading, meditation, and planning my day — and purposefully…

    January 13, 2021
  • Habits life

    Organizing Etc

    I am starting round 2 of Organize 365‘s 100 Day Program tomorrow. I must disclose that the company’s founder Lisa Woodruff gifted me access to this program (this was after we had her on…

    January 3, 2021
  • Goals Habits

    2021 Goals Countdown: Personal

    Thank you for your kind notes yesterday. Everyone is still doing okay. The waiting game continues . . . And in the meantime, 2021 is marching ever closer! So we will continue this goals…

    December 27, 2020
  • Goals Habits Planners

    Time Estimates & Blocking

    I loved this comment from Jenn yesterday: “. . . Your comment about time blocking yesterday reminded me of a question I’ve been meaning to ask you. I am an obliger who constantly over-commits…

    December 10, 2020
  • Habits life

    #Screenshot Life

    Hi! Yesterday got away from me, mostly because a) I slept until 6; b) I time blocked the #($&@# out of the rest of the day, and there just wasn’t a logical slot to…

    December 9, 2020
  • Goals Habits Weekend

    Sleep is Amazing

    Coming at you after 8.5 hours of sleep! Josh put G to bed last night, and apparently it went relatively well (though it was at 10pm and with him sitting in a chair in…

    November 14, 2020