Every 6 weeks, I schedule a 4-day weekend for myself to help decompress, detach, and destress from work. This long weekend will be busier than I’d prefer, but I’m still planning to get some me-time in. On the might-do list:

• get a haircut
• treat myself to lunch
• go to the park and read a book
• take me and my kids to get our flu vax and covid boosters
• yoga
• gardening (including weeding, pulling out last of summer crops, and mulching)
• catch up on podcasts
• design the family holiday card
• watch Dune
• listen to Sufjan Stevens’s latest album
• make snickerdoodle cookies