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  1. We've never discussed it, but now DH helps the kids wrap the presents that are from them, including for my and my son's December birthdays. Then I'm mostly in charge of gifts from DH and me to the kids and extended family. We usually have a "wrapping party" together the last few days before Christmas to do the Santa gifts.

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  2. Thank you all again for your help!

    Mom is doing well and resting. For better for worse, I'm allowed to come and go freely so I was able to wait in my car during the surgery and recovery instead of in the waiting room (the weather here is perfect for waiting outside, sorry not sorry). There's a cafeteria with limited hours and all vending is closed, so I'm glad I can go out to get food or coffee when I want to.

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  3. The Tending List is a wonderful habit to lay out your goals into manageable steps and is easily DIY.

    Another major part of the planner is the Prep Work in the whole front section of the book. It has guided questions, journal prompts, and reflections to help you figure what really matters to you and what legacy you want to leave - which will help with goal creation and motivation.

    So if you're pretty solid on your goals, you maybe don't need the Prep Work. I do/did find it valuable to me. I did my first set of Prep Work in July 2020 and, despite all the new year excitement , I do not feel I need a brand new set of goals for 2021 since my long and short term goals haven't changed yet. So I'll be doing my lists DIY until I think I need some new prep work.

    There is also a 6 month version that is slightly cheaper - I dont know if those will also go on sale or not. The Prep Work is identical, but there are only planning and tracking pages for 6 months Undated (in which each "month" has tracking for 5 weeks, so you can stretch that to 30 weeks if you don't care about sticking to a hard month).

    There are also the Quarter Refresh pages inserted every 3 months to make sure your goals are still working for you and gives you a chance to reevaluate your next steps. I think that's easily DIY too, but it is nice to have laid out for you on paper.

    So, I did find it valuable to get that first set of Powersheets, but I don't think you need a new one every year, depending on life changes. There are also a TON of YouTube videos that flip through each page if you haven't found those already. I think Plan with Laken does a good thorough yet not super long video review.

    Hope that helps!

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  4. Hello, all! I'm coming out of lurkdom with a question.

    My mom is having surgery next week and I will be taking "charge" of her. It's neck surgery and she'll be in the hospital for 1-2 nights assuming all goes well. The hospital requested that I stay in the room with her so my question is... what do I bring for myself, for her, and in light of COVID? I've only stayed in a hospital postpartum and have never been there as the "helper" person.

    I normally use a cloth, reusable mask, but I'm gonna try to pick up some N95s to wear while at the hospital. So far I have a change of clothes or two, snacks, waterbottle?, basic toiletries, phone and charger, notebook and pen, book to read, pillow, blanket?, and hand sanitizer.

    Thanks for your help!

  5. I don't FEEL nervous anymore, not like I did in March. I think overtime I figured out a routine for shopping, brining things into the house, and all that became normal.

    And while I still don't FEEL nervous, my DH and coworkers are working from home again after having gone back to the office, and we're pulling our kids out of the activities that had started up again (here in GA).

  6. We did this 3 years ago and lived in an apartment in between houses. It was more physical work, but we could sell our house, then take our time finding a house we WANTED to buy instead of HAD to buy. We were in the apartment 3ish months and paid extra to get out of the contract, but we knew that might happen, moneywise.

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  7. I used FLL with my kids. DS10 finished level 4 last year and DD8 is almost done with level 3. They also just finished Latina Christiana together.

    I'm glad they had FLL first, then Latin. FLL is both thorough and gentle. I feel the MP "Latin to learn grammar" teaches on a need to know basis only. I have First Form with EGR 2 lined up for next year, and after flipping through it all, I feel like both will be easier and make more sense having done FLL.

    FWIW, I attempted Grammar for the Well Trained Mind with DS10 this year, but dropped it. Too much too fast. I look forward to trying FFL with EGR2.

  8. I've been using USPS Click n Ship for a long time now. Yes, I use my kitchen scale to measure. I've never had anything sent back.

    You do the shipping label first, then request pick up as a separate "transaction". You can tell the postal worker if the box is in the mail box or front porch (or other place). They just pick it up! Saves me a lot of time.

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