At the beginning of this season, I shared a personal update and talked a little bit about how our life is changing.

There's more moving pieces than ever before.

And honestly, a couple years ago, if you would have asked me, I would have said,

you know, our schedule, our calendar is about as full and as busy as it possibly can be.

And, of course, little did I know that we could reach a whole new level of having a full schedule.

Now, it's not a bad thing.

And I am not resentful of it in the slightest. It's the season

we're called to right now. It feels right. But all of that said, there's a lot of moving pieces,

both for myself and for Christian and our kids and our homestead and our businesses. And it takes a lot

of coordination to keep everything on track. And so I know a lot of you are in the same boat. I'm not the only one takes a lot of coordination to keep everything on track.

And so I know a lot of you are in the same boat.

I'm not the only one with a lot of irons in the fire.

And one of the questions over the years that I've received the most in various forms

is in regards to how I keep all the balls of our life in the air, at least most of the time,

and coordinate all of the bits and pieces.

So we've talked about this some in the past.

Last season, I shared just some of my overarching strategies for planning and organizing and how I think

about the chaos of our life.

But today I want to get even more actionable since we're nearing the end of the

year. We're ready to turn the page into 2025 very soon. And I want to share with you how I use a planner,

a good old fashioned paper planner with a pin to keep our life flowing. And of course,

there's lots of ways to do this. Some people live and die by Google calendars and there's all sorts of apps. And I've tried a number of those. In fact, my husband

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