Plan With Me | Week of Mar 15-21

Mar 16

This week marks the beginning of an entirely new family schedule for us as we close out a seven-year chapter of life as a second-shift household. At first, I felt completely frozen at the thought of all the rituals and routines I’ve carefully built over the years — the ones that help me do what I do and stay even remotely stable and regulated (hah!) — disappearing overnight.

After all, the story we’re often told is that when the boat gets rocked, moms are simply supposed to absorb the impact and keep everyone else afloat.

But my nervous system won’t tolerate that anymore....

✨ Plan With Me is a series where I share a peek at how I organize my week as an illustrator, blogger, and small business owner. It’s part planning session, part creative diary, and part gentle accountability.

Each week, I sit down with my planner and map out what’s ahead — creative work, blog posts, and the routines of everyday life.

If you like this kind of cozy behind-the-scenes routine, you can browse all the entries in the Plan With Me archive here.

closeup of planners open on a teal velvet bedspread with two oracle cards from the wild unknown deck

This Week’s Plan:

So — instead of letting everything collapse and trying to rebuild later from a place of burnout, I decided to do something different. This week, I sat down with my planners and started mapping out what this new chapter could actually look like. Not just for the household, but for me too.

What are my daily non-negotiables? What rhythms do still work? What needs to shift? What deserves protection?

This week’s plan is less about squeezing productivity into every available minute and more about designing a routine that lets our family move into this new season without losing the things that keep me grounded.

It’s likely gonna take some getting used to, but it’s a start… 😉

Work:

TAXES!

Publish 3 blog posts

Write a draft for next week’s post

Make + publish pins for blog posts

Finalize desktop icons

Finalize 75 Art sketch list

Studio day - analog repeating pattern practice

Admin/planning day

Write something

Sketch something

Collage something

Learn from another artist

Read about illustration history + lore

Brainstorm new products

Brainstorm new characters

Practice character development

Plan new collection

Develop new products

Home:

St. Patty’s Day Meal Prep

Library labs with kids

Pack a picnic for the park

Kids’ summer shoe shopping

Clean bathrooms

Mop floors

Laundry

Meal planning

Groceries

Drop off donations

Organize a space or nook

Meal prep

Clean altar

Water plants

Mind/Body:

Workout at home x5 (kids on spring break and Luke starts day shift this week, so my mornings are BOOKED this week)

Track cals + protein

a.m. pages

Sunday Planning - IFTW / pull cards

Take medicine + vitamins

Wash face daily

Lymphatic facial massage

Qi Gong/Yoga x3

HYDRATE

overhead image of two oracle cards framed by notepads and planners and guidebook — The obstacle + the path

closeup of sea serpent and butterfly oracle cards — Expression + transformation — I’ll say!

Last Week’s List:

✨Here’s how last week went: the good, the messy, the mess ups and everything in between…

For being sick all week, I have to say I’m chuffed at how much I did actually manage to get done! Admittedly, it was a lot of digital work from my couch, but I did finally get some energy at the end of the week to work on our spring heART journal. 🩷

(Couldn’t muster the energy for those taxes tho…😅)

Work:

Taxes! >_<

Make Spring HeART journal

Film + Edit 75Art

Prep next week’s sketches for 75Art

Sketches for daily planner page