Plan on this!

I am so excited to share this. The first print run of my planner! I started loving planning when I was about 12 years old. I would pick out a new calendar and fill it in with all my activities. As I grew up, my needs greatly increased, and my planners needed more space. Now I have a homestead, homeschool, pastor a congregation of children and teens, and still run our family schedule.

I just kept buying planners that almost worked.

They had pretty covers.
They had inspiring quotes.
They had tiny little boxes.

But none of them had space for my real life.

I needed room for appointments and school schedules. For garden plans and animal care. For canning days and grocery lists. For business ideas and regular Tuesday chaos.

I didn’t need something aesthetic.
I needed something honest.

 So... I made one. Its not super fancy, its functional.

And its one I made all by myself.

I wanted it to not be bulky, to have a place where I can have notes, birthdays, lists, meal plans, and all the extras that I didnt have before.

I wanted a weekly layout with enough space to actually write.
A two-page monthly spread where I could see everything at once.

A section for homestead planning, the kind that doesn’t get its own planner in most stores. I wanted a place where all my callings could sit next to each other instead of competing.

Mother. Maker. Manager. Pastor. Dreamer.
All of it.

So I started designing one! 

What started as a few layout drafts turned into hours of tweaking margins, adjusting grids, printing samples, and testing paper weights.

(I am not a tech girlie. If you’ve ever tried to get printer settings just right, you know how this stage went for me.)

And then this week… I printed it.
I bound it.
I held it in my hands.

It’s simple.
It’s functional.
And it feels like real life.

 It doesn't have a flashy front, it is one I can bring into business meetings and not get weird looks because there is a cartoon character on the front, or rainbow letters with #boymom on the cover. But inside, it has all the chaos managed. 

This is the very first print run.

The original version.
The one that started it.

I am designing it for the life I am building and maybe yours too. 

I’ll be sharing more of the inside pages soon.

If you’ve ever wished your planner had space for the whole picture, not just appointments, I think you’ll want to see this.

For now, I’m just grateful it exists.

And a little excited about what it might become.

Maybe more homeschool extras, maybe more garden notes, customized frost dates, maybe with more food preservation pages? You tell me.
I will be doing a first run for purchase soon. Tell me what you would want in yours.