Is it easy? For some people it is for me not so much. I’ve tried it a few times and frankly I just stink at the upkeep of it. It is an area I need to work on for sure. Sometimes all that would take is someone offering a helping hand when it comes to the process of planning. Choosing meals, making a shopping list, doing the shopping. When you are working and have a homestead, which is even more work, and kids to schedule it can be very difficult to plan ahead. One way I am trying to tackle this is to actually schedule the time to work on different things that need to be done. I literally need an appointment book to get everything done that needs doing on a daily basis.

Our oldest daughter is stellar at planning. She tries to plan every minute of every day. She has been like that since before she was born, being born on her actual due date. According to some sources only 5% of babies are actually born on their given due date. This was her, it is her personality to a tee. She is always right on time if she has any control over it. Not late, not early, ON TIME as planned. Although I have tried asking her for tips for better meal planning for myself she simply says you just have to do it. Easier said than done for me. She is coming for a visit in a few weeks and although I’ll only have her for one evening because she will be home for a Friends wedding I hope to talk with her more in depth of how she plans and schedules things and how it works or doesn’t work in her favor.

Enter daughter number two here. The one born two days early, the one who tends to be early for everything. Do you sense a pattern here? Well she moved away for a little while and now that she has come home she has been very helpful in the area of meal planning and I do hope that the skills will become habit with myself as well. She seems to be happy with doing the shopping and creating the lists. She won’t be here forever though so with the plethora of cookbooks we own I hope I will be able to develop habits that will follow me forward making our lives a bit more routine and easy.

Do you have suggestions or tips for strategizing your day? Scheduling your to do’s? Having a meal plan? I would love to here from you. Please if you are willing share what works for you and what might be helpful to others.

xo