I have been pondering the shape of the next six weeks. Howard is going to be insanely busy trying to get all the pictures drawn for the XDM project. I will be somewhat busy doing the layout, but my busy will have significant gaps as I am waiting for Howard, Tracy, and Curtis to give me things to lay out. Mostly what I will be busy doing is managing the family schedule as a mostly solo act. When Howard gets stressed it becomes critical for our days to have structure. Things like meals and bedtimes need to be very predictable. Unfortunately when I get busy and stressed the schedule goes all skiddly wampus. Bedtimes have been out of whack ever since the daylight saving time shift. I need to put them back. I need to get back to cooking dinner and enforcing homework times. I need to be aggressive about disallowing things that muck with our evening schedule.
I also feel like I need to be taking time to do my own writing. This is the opposite of last year when I felt like I needed to put it down and focus on other things. Fortunately keeping our schedule intact includes keeping the spaces in the schedule in which I can write. This is good. I should probably sit down today and plan meals for the week. It is much easier for me to execute an existing plan than to come up with one from scratch. Hmm. I think this should be part of my Sunday evenings for at least the next six weeks. I need to sit down and review the coming week and plan out how everything will fit. My planner is going to get heavy use for the next few months.