Raise your hand if you collected Beanie Babies in the 90s. It’s hard to overstate the grip these sweet little animals had on us. They were currency in the moment, and we were all banking our retirements on them too. Why bother passing fourth grade? Beanie Babies would make us rich beyond our wildest dreams—as
In my last post of this series, I explained how to set up a time budget template. Now I’ll take you through how I plan a particular week. At this point, you should have a template set up with sections 1 and 2 filled in with your daily and weekly recurring commitments. It might look
School’s out for summer! My middle daughter had a rocky end to the school year. She got sick the second-to-last day of school, spiked a fever, and had to miss her class party. She also didn’t get to say goodbye to her beloved teacher, who is moving away this summer. The poor girl was also
In my last post, I shared about how I view time as money—and budget it. We all have 168 hours per week to spend. I’ve personally found that after I set aside time for sleep, unexpected events, and transitions, I can “spend” about 98 hours per week. Because I have a general sense of how
We often quip that to cross items off our bucket lists, we just need time and money. But even when these resources are in short supply, I want to have fun. Even though a trip to Paris is currently out of reach, for the cost of 90 minutes and $20, I can grab brunch with
I hope you had fun this weekend! As an Enneagram One, fun isn’t always (ever?) my top priority. But I’m learning! I’m trying to recognize where fun is already happening in my life and trying to plan more time for it. My weekend fun included friends, games, a good book, and a recipe I quadruple
Most Fridays, we have family game night. We’ve been doing this for over a year—ever since our toddler’s bedtime got to be too disruptive to family movie night. (We were also running out of movies to watch that were actually fun for the whole family.) My husband and I weren’t sure how it would go.
I am a completionist. I derive a lot of pleasure from checking all the boxes. Cherry-picking podcast episodes isn’t for me. I go back to episode one and listen to the entire back catalog in order. You have 500 episodes and 25 of them are about the pandemic? Sign me up. You wrote a book
Breakfast is the best meal of the day. I would eat breakfast food at every meal (and occasionally do). Of course, on special days, I want a special breakfast. There should be sugar. There should be carbs. I want something Buddy the Elf would whip up for Jovie. So there I was, May of 2020,
It will come as no surprise that Gilmore Girls is my favorite television show. Sure, it’s cliché, but Rory was a year older than I was and seemed like the perfect role model for my Enneagram One self. I was on track to be valedictorian and dreamed of attending not Harvard but “the Harvard of
