Hello November. September and October feel like I need to get a little more done and I am not ready for end of year but then November comes and I am so done done done. I feel like at this moment I am white-knuckling my way to the end of the year at this point. I need to make it to Thanksgiving week so I can rest and then just a little more so I can make it to Christmas break. I’d say I just want to make it there but I don’t just want to make it there, I also want everything along the way to go right. Jobs, schools, acceptances, offers, projects. Please universe just be good to us.

Big Goal: So the goal for November is to make it through the first three weeks successfully. That means some more submissions for the kiddo, a successful prep for ELS for me including organizing and presenting, a successful week for Sadie to be with a new sitter while I travel, and the other kiddo successfully making it home. And a bunch of other hard things that I have to make through that I don’t want to but alas no choice. And then, then I get to hopefully relax a tiny bit and for that week my only goal is to soak up my kids. To enjoy every moment I have with them. And outside of that snuggle time with Sadie, reading books with my eyeballs, and journaling my heart out.

• Progress on the big five:
  • Y: I still need to sweep and I would like some plants but at this point it’s only if I can.
  • G: The only goal I have left is still just to put those final boxes away. But I’ve been sitting on it for months now so I am not holding my breath on it. Would be nice not to walk into December with them.
  • S: more appointments this month but that’s all.
  • Sa: we just have to survive the week away. So sad we have to leave her.
  • D: nothing this month unless the kiddos want to go somewhere.
• Three Medium goals:
  • Order at least two christmas presents for each kiddo
  • Read three of my books.
  • Have the best time I can with A in NY
  • Chores:
    • Complete a really good preso.
    • Hang up new stuff in office
    • See the show we booked.
    • A appointments completed
    • Start xmas presents list
    • Finish prep for the work stuff for 2027

• Start: planning for 2027.
• Stop: beating myself up. all grace all the time from here to 2027 at this point.
• Continue: documenting E, one more big push might let me be done here.
• Brave: can i let even more of it go?

Here’s to another month. Paying attention. Loving my people. Savoring and living in awe. And taking steps to move onward.

Things were getting hectic with September but then they completely blew up in October. Applications were due, I took on some new work, D came to visit and I just dropped everything else because I had no bandwidth left. And apparently this site was one of the things that ended up falling off.

• Progress on the big five:
  • Y: Did nothing on winter prep. Bought no more plants but my plants are blooming once again which is magical. I will see if I can re-plant the other ones in the next month.
  • G: final boxes are still sitting there undone.
  • S: just regular appointments this month, did them all!
  • Sa: visited the new sitter. she seems nice. Ready for November hopefully.
  • D: nothing new here.
• Three Medium goals:
  • read them all, did all the feedback, tried to be patient.
  • spent so much time with D!
  • Did not restart some of the practices with healthy meals, yoga, and visual note taking.
  • did all the chores! but didn’t buy lights for the office, but bought other things!

• Start: did not start a new book with D.
• Stop: my sleep is all over the place sadly.
• Continue: did not document more this month either 🙁
• Brave: made some major progress on this yay!.

October was just insane. I will mostly just say that I survived it.

Here’s to another month. Paying attention. Loving my people. Savoring and living in awe. And taking steps to move onward.