No Typical Weeks - Routines and Logistics Meetings

Laura Vanderkam writes "There Are No Typical Weeks" and it's kind of fun to know two things are true: I'm planning a week, and weeks never go to plan.  This week was such a perfect rendition of a not-to-plan week, but I still made it to the office, we still ate food every night, and I still slept 7+ hours.  

Our general weekly routine is as follows:

Monday: Andy cycles with a cycling club
Tuesday: I do sport with my sport friend (Yoga/running/climbing... something else)
Wednesday: Logistics Meeting
Thursday: Andy runs with his running club
Friday: Grocery delivery and hang out at home

This was all fine from a hobbies and equity standpoint as I also had gym morning on Friday, but I've recently started running with a running club on Wednesday (on the few days we did logistics on a Tuesday) and I felt I was giving up 2 of 5 weeknights for family logistics/food which seemed a lot. 

The benefit of a Wednesday logistics meeting: 

• Friday evening grocery delivery worked well - we could get groceries just after the kids went to bed and put them all away so quickly (vs trying to put away groceries when kids are awake on saturday morning. Groceries need to be ordered by 9pm the previous evening). 
• Thursday was a great day to send some low key texts about weekend plans.
• Andy goes to the pub after run club on Thursdays and sometimes stays awake too late and is tired on Friday
• I sometimes get "that Friday feeling" on a Thursday and stay awake too late and am tired.  Friday is like a mini weekend because I have childcare (even though I'm in work, but that's easier than watching kids)
• Friday is tiring and we used to struggle to keep momentum to plan another week right at the tail end of an existing week

 Benefits of a Friday meeting include

• We already spend Friday evenings together so may as well do logistics
• I want to do run club on Wednesday (and another friend would probably do it with me, which would be great because I really like this person but haven't had space to actually make a viable "bid" for friendship, ie a thing we both like doing and works for both our schedules)
• One Tranquillity by Tuesday rule is Plan on Friday.  I can see how it's good - we could make a firmer plan for the upcoming weekend and a lighter plan for the following weekend.

I mean, on balance the Wednesday meetings work pretty well, but the balance is me not going to run club, so we are going to to switch to a Friday plan.  And grocery delivery on... Saturday night? Sunday night?  We haven't quite worked this out.

On a different note: here is a minor house improvement I made last weekend.

The upstairs landing was driving me crazy:

I know it's sort of cheating to just take down the drying rack, but we also were storing way too much in that space.  I've been trying to find areas of the house that we aren't using as much as we should, or where we are using it to store things that shouldn't be stored in valuable house floor space.  See the pile of boxes on the left? That's the Vinted packing shop.  It doesn't need to be out all the time.  I donated a pile of clothes to charity, put the boxes in the attic, but the gift wrapping things in our bedroom, put the Vinted "shop" in my office, and cleared out the entire back corner

When we first had kids we used Kallax furniture in every room.  The Black shelf on the right is our third to last Kallax and I think it's time for it to go to the charity shop as well.  It's just, bigger than needed.  Sometimes lots of storage just accumulates lots of stuff.

Does your week have a repeating flow of events and activities?  Do you have a structured time for personal or family logistics?