Just when things start to feel steady…
School’s canceled.
Someone wakes up sick.
The weather shifts.
Or you get that robocall at 5:42 a.m. that instantly blows up your day, AND ruins your sleep...

And suddenly you’re rearranging meetings, adjusting childcare, reheating coffee for the third time, and wondering how you still feel behind even though you never stopped moving.

This is February.

It’s the month where routines look solid on paper—but reality keeps ripping holes through them.

Here’s what makes this part especially exhausting:
It’s not the disruption itself.
It’s the feeling that you can never fully catch up because you’re constantly reacting.

You make a plan.
Life cancels it.
You adjust.
Life does it again.

And after a while, that starts to mess with your head.

So instead of trying to build a “perfect” schedule that only works on ideal days, here’s something I’ve found actually helps:

A simple Plan B Day (decided before chaos hits)

Not a backup plan you scramble to invent.
A pre-decided default for days that go sideways.

For example:

• Meals: One or two go-to options that require zero thinking
• Work: One realistic work block you protect, everything else is optional
• Kids: A short list of independent activities they already know how to do
• You: One small thing that helps you regulate, even when the day is loud

Nothing fancy.
Nothing aspirational.
Just something that keeps the day from completely unraveling.

February doesn’t need more rigid schedules.
It needs flexibility that’s already built in.

This is the difference between constantly feeling behind…
And feeling like you can absorb the disruption without losing yourself.

It’s also why I focus so much on helping families create systems that bend instead of break—because life doesn’t follow the calendar, especially this time of year.

If today went off the rails, you’re not failing.
You’re parenting through peak unpredictability.

And that’s not nothing.

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​Do you have a Plan B Day—or are you rebuilding from scratch every time? Hit reply.