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?)
That’s genius actually! I’m going to steal this for visitors coming to our summer house. We entertained so many days in a row I was exhausted afterwards. Actually we both were. Now we committed to a two night break in between guests as a minimum. We also have edited our list of invites for next year. Some guests were harder than others and that’s not something we’re going to entertain going forward. Easy gusts only!
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?)
That’s genius actually! I’m going to steal this for visitors coming to our summer house. We entertained so many days in a row I was exhausted afterwards. Actually we both were. Now we committed to a two night break in between guests as a minimum. We also have edited our list of invites for next year. Some guests were harder than others and that’s not something we’re going to entertain going forward. Easy gusts only!
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 :)