Do you want your weeks to run smoother?
Take about 15 minutes every Sunday night and prepare for the week ahead.
I find that I start the week on the right note if I do a minimal amount of preparation to ready my family for the week.
Our friend, Leon, makes the best salads 🙂
These are some of the things I do on a Sunday night:
- make sure I have a written out menu plan and not just one in my head
- make a note of when I need to prepare extra meals (e.g. I’ll write on my menu plan – “soak kidney beans”)
- pack two slices of bread in at least 3 lunch boxes
- pack cereals for at least 3 days but I prefer to do all 5 days (I eat breakfast at work)
- pack my work bag (I often use a different, more casual bag on the weekends) and all my papers
- make notes for the nanny to focus her for the week – what to do with the kids, foods to prepare, etc.
- I prepare the kids’ clothes for the week sometime during the Sunday afternoon, mostly while they’re having a bath
Honestly, it takes about 15 minutes, maybe 30 if I’ve been interrupted a lot 🙂
What do you prepare on a Sunday?
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PS it’s my father’s birthday today 🙂
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