Hello and welcome to Veslave Plans.

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

Today we are going to talk a lot about summer.

Instead of just talking traditional summer planning, which you've probably done already

anyway, I'm going to really take the angle where we're going to talk about some non-traditional

ideas on thinking through your summer.

Many of them, as you can imagine, are planning related and planning adjacent.

But yeah, I think that hopefully some of these will resonate with you

and give you some ideas as to how you'd like to dive into this season. So here we go.

The first one is to really get the whole family or everybody in your household involved in

deciding what they want out of the season. Now, this is a little bit countercultural in that in many households,

if there is a single female kind of leader of the home, a mom, then they may be tasked

with kind of figuring out what the summer is going to look like for everyone else. And to some

extent, that's true in our house as well. But at the same time,

it definitely doesn't have to fall on one person's shoulders to decide what everybody wants to do.

And in fact, that can be a bit of a burden. Because if you feel like this is all up to you

and you have to make all the magic, just like some families feel similarly about maybe the holiday

season, then that's a lot for one person to have to think about and for that pressure

to fall on them if things don't work out. So I think it's really important to have a nice

conversation with every single member of the household that can talk. I mean, if you've got a

two-year-old or one-year-old,

they may not have as much to add to the conversation,

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