Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

This is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent, and this is your host, Sarah Hart Unger.

This is our monthly Q&A episode where I take the best of the questions that were

sent to me throughout the prior month and share my answers with you all. Sometimes I also

include some listener tips and we have a few of those today to share. And every once in a while,

I also do some crowdsourcing. So of course, if you hear one of these questions and you feel like

you have a great answer for one of them, I would love it if you shared. You can always put them in the show

notes, which can be found at the shoebox.com. Click on best laid plans and then look for the episode that

you're looking for. Also, if you're looking on the day that the episode does happen to be released, usually

it's going to be on the top of the front page anyway, so it's really easy to find.

All right, so here we go. I'm going to stop talking and move on to some questions. None of these

are audio questions. You guys just like to email and text, don't you? I understand. I get it.

But that means I'm going to be reading these questions

aloud, and some of them I did alter to make sure to maintain the privacy of the person

asking the question as well as to, of course, make the question a little bit shorter. So here

goes question number one, which I will entitle entering a new life phase with lots of changes.

Hi, Sarah. I've been wanting to reach out to you because our family is entering a couple of new life phases all at once,

and I'd love your thoughts. My partner is starting residency. Our family has just moved,

and I am starting an online master's and will be doing more work outside the home very soon

for the first time

in more than four years since I had my first child. I have three kids, ages four, two, and six

months, and they will be in part-time childcare. This person writes, I would also like to fit in

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