I have certain things that I can only do at certain times of summer - lake mornings being one. As soon as it starts feeling like Not Winter, I book those in. I do lake morning invites and schedule it like an event. I also book in the grandies birthdays, of course. I pre-book every second weekend as "busy". Then when we're asked to go somewhere or do something I can already see the bits that make MY summer enjoyable and I tend to either swap with something else or decline. Also I don't tell ANYONE that we have Summer Fridays (off early) - so that time is never co-opted because everyone thinks I'm at work! (I do the same w vacation - I don't broadly announce it because then people assume you have alllll the time in the world for what they want you to be doing). Our warm-days summer is SO SHORT here and never guaranteed so I choose to prioritize what I want to do during them.
This is so smart. I do my best not to book any plans further than a week or two out, because I don't know if I'll feel like doing X thing on X day. (What if I want to hike all day instead?)
Thank you for this! So helpful!❤️ my son has baseball and that fills up most days, so adding in additional invites is hard, so I appreciate the approaches you shared I can incorporate in making those decisions!
Last year I failed to check the previous week / weekend before buying tickets to a show and it turns out I was home for 3 days before leaving again. So yah - make sure to check the full week before/after and not just THE day.
I have certain things that I can only do at certain times of summer - lake mornings being one. As soon as it starts feeling like Not Winter, I book those in. I do lake morning invites and schedule it like an event. I also book in the grandies birthdays, of course. I pre-book every second weekend as "busy". Then when we're asked to go somewhere or do something I can already see the bits that make MY summer enjoyable and I tend to either swap with something else or decline. Also I don't tell ANYONE that we have Summer Fridays (off early) - so that time is never co-opted because everyone thinks I'm at work! (I do the same w vacation - I don't broadly announce it because then people assume you have alllll the time in the world for what they want you to be doing). Our warm-days summer is SO SHORT here and never guaranteed so I choose to prioritize what I want to do during them.
This is so smart. I do my best not to book any plans further than a week or two out, because I don't know if I'll feel like doing X thing on X day. (What if I want to hike all day instead?)
Thank you for this! So helpful!❤️ my son has baseball and that fills up most days, so adding in additional invites is hard, so I appreciate the approaches you shared I can incorporate in making those decisions!
Kid's sports can take up SO much time! I feel this, so I'm glad this was helpful.
Last year I failed to check the previous week / weekend before buying tickets to a show and it turns out I was home for 3 days before leaving again. So yah - make sure to check the full week before/after and not just THE day.
OH NO. I'm always careful to check because my nervous system cannot handle that much people-ing with that little down time :)