Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is a podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

I am here starting with a little bit of a life update.

You all knew I had a very travel heavy season that I talked about on prior episodes,

kind of strategizing how to get through that.

And just to recap, I had a trip to Disney with my sister,

trip to Naples with my daughter's friends.

After that, I went to Gainesville to watch my daughter compete in gymnastics. The week after that, I had a college acopella reunion trip in Massachusetts. The weekend after that, my husband was running a marathon and I was not going, but it was going to be kind of a solo parenting weekend. And then the week after that, I was supposed to go to San Francisco for the Pediatric Endocrine Society Conference,

one that I've gone to in the past, but I've actually missed the past couple of years.

And life happens.

And this show, I am not here to tell you that planning solves everything or that all of your

plans are always going to come to fruition because sometimes

there are just very important or very good reasons that you have to change your plans. In my case,

my mother-in-law who had been ill for a long time, but acutely was getting more and more sick,

passed away between Josh's marathon and the trip that I was

supposed to take. So of course, within a matter of minutes unfolding as we knew what was happening,

we made a pivot and I canceled my trip and was able to spend, of course, the week at home

and with family, attending her services

and honoring her memory with family and supporting my father and law and my husband and all

the family. And it was such a no-brainer choice, right? Like there was no other option at the time

other than this is where I need to be right now. And I guess I say all this, well,

partly because I just want to honor her memory because she was such a wonderful woman,

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