2026 – November Onward

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.