strategy

what is strategy, even? I've been thinking about it so much i'm getting confused. Like, i have a document that says what our goals are. Are having goals, tactics & deadlines a strategy?

some of the goals need 'frameworks' and substrategies. curses!

i feel very vague about this but i guess i'm learning. the places i come from didn't really dwell on the topic much but I am thinking it would be helpful to keep us from getting spread too wide & thin. I sort of see strategy as boundaries.

on another note

Weekend & Mothers Day:

This weekend, i took the childrens to the Indoor Bounce House place (cheaper than indoor trampoline!) and paid bills & read. THEN it was pretty out but cold so I dragged them to a park to look for deer. We saw some! And a turkey! and cardinals! And Meg was psyched about nature and Ty was reading aloud to us the whole hike. And they also did playground. They have soooo much energyyyyyyyy

For Mother's Day my brother-in-law texted "I hope the kiddos are appreciating the heck out of you" I said "sorta." Husband does. The kiddos, if faced with me being sad or upset (and explaining it nicely to them) will bend over backwards to do nice things for me. On a regular basis, Meg is helpful and getting bossy about cleaning up (i don't mind) and Ty CAN be helpful but he's usually thinking about unused code in minecraft or something he read in the Far Side Gallery. All i really want is for them to listen to me and listen to each other (which means getting along).

Meg made a great card. My age is 67 (she got the 7 right), my favorite things are snuggles and hugs (true tbh), and we would go to Niagara Falls if we could go anywhere. PS spelled SNUGL.



However husband is a kickass appreciator, although he is NOT a gift-giver. more on this later. we had the sweetest talk last night. For MD he made coffee and per my request made one of those 'flapjack in a cup' microwave thingies and switched my laundry. Bonus - he rubbed my feet and let me go out to a store on my own for a while to get some space (and clothes and groceries).

The moms (his and mine) - well what we all thoguht sounded nice and low-key was going to Barnes & noble to putter around and get a cookie. The kids thought that sounded awesome so they joined us (more Far Side and Garfield, Legos and Phoebe & the Unicorn). followed by reading & snacks at the instore cafe. It was pretty nice.

Products & Technology & Notebooks will NOT Solve All My Problems

I made 3 interesting purchases (besides old navy clothes):
- a new Erin condren planner and accessories and folio - it is pretty and it has a lot of claims about productivity and organization but honestly we'll see. I kinda wanted a smart notebook or something for note-taking but planner with note space are tried & true.

- regarding me & strategy since I'm a little clueless (or else, overthinking it) i purchased a subscription to Cascade strategy software which is sort of like a goals wizard = the main point of having it is for dashboarding statuses (stati?) because 'we' don't really do that and I've been told it's pretty essential for keeping people on track and it helps with the knocking-over-the-head that strategy exists - reminders about howe we're all doing on it. Anyway, it's not gonna solve all my problems either but it has widgets for goals, updates, tasks, timelines, focus areas, etc. Some of it is too much detail but kinda once it's set up it's not too gross. I wish it wasn't $50/month per user though because i would add other users.


- I did finally get tickets to Jurassic World Live for me & megan for our birthdays, RAR