Meal planning has long not been a strength of mine. I recently mentioned, when I was on SHU's podcast Best Laid Plans (just realized I NEVER SHARED ABOUT THIS! Whoops! Sarah and I recorded a mid-year goals check-in episode when I visited her in July; link here), that I wanted to streamline our meal planning.… Continue reading Project Routine Optimization #3: Meal Planning!
At the risk of tempting fate here, I did a little reflecting on what feels to be working well so far this year for me. 1. My current workout schedule In late fall 2025, I revamped my workout schedule (posted specifics here). The biggest change was switching from a 5x(!)/week gym strength split to a… Continue reading Some things that are working (so far) in 2026
Storage Room: Before + After Okay, as promised, I took some pictures of my big storage room clean out! Sadly, I don't really have the best "before" pictures. Here's the thing- this storage room wasn't always a disaster. We moved into this house in 2013, and I'd say it spent the first ~6 years or… Continue reading Before/after + spontaneous fun!
I peeked back in my "Blog Ideas" folder in Google Keep and saw I had once jotted down that I wanted to talk about Vertical Ownership regarding household responsibilities (aka "who does what"). I'll keep this specific to between me and Ivan, not counting stuff the boys help out with. IVAN: -cell phone related stuff-… Continue reading Vertical ownership
A few random things on this Tuesday: #1. I wrote a guest post! On Sunday NGS published my guest post as part of her special 20th anniversary blog series. Every Sunday a guest blogger shares some sort of "20 Things" list of their choice. Mine was, of course, 20 Things I'm Grateful For. I had… Continue reading Tuesday misc.
Decluttering success I've (finally) made some decent recent progress in some house decluttering projects, after feeling very stalled out for a while there. Last fall I made a Google Keep label called "House - TO DO LIST", and then made a separate note for each area of our house. I literally went to each room… Continue reading Forward progress, slowly
A general focus for me so far in 2024 has been to work on FIXING and SIMPLIFYING things that are persistent problems. I've had this nagging feeling for a long time now that many things in my life are mildly "out of sorts". Some areas just need a good declutter, yes. But others are minor issues… Continue reading Fixing/ simplifying things + a little Second Brain talk
How often do you fully clean out your personal email? I usually always aim to do a big email clean out/ catch up on Fridays. But that does not always happen. So Plan B is anytime over the weekend. Sometimes even this gets away from me and I might end up with up to ~2… Continue reading Email cleanout frequency
Another solid week of workouts! Is sharing these recaps here the secret sauce? Wait, am I an obliger and not an upholder as I thought?? 😁😝 I actually had a few hiccups this week; I had to skip Wednesday/ insert my rest day in the middle of the week, and I subbed a home workout… Continue reading A recap: week of 8/6 workouts
Weekend: Asher was away this weekend (he's still away in Florida at swim camp- it's going great!) which felt weird! This weekend was probably my first WIDE OPEN weekend in forever- no soccer games or kids events of any kind! Ethan worked 7-3 both days, so with Asher gone, this was extra weird! I was… Continue reading Weekend + clothes + closet app
GRATEFUL KAE 