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How I Planned During COVID


I LOVE planners, and use them for work, life and journaling
Like many of you, I have been cooped up in my house since March 13th (unlucky Friday the 13th) I have gone out for groceries, and I think we have picked up food once, at the beginning.  Otherwise, we have stayed in the house with little contact.  It was just this last weekend where we adventured to a “drive in movie” in the mall parking lot with my sister-in-law and her kids.  
This was the first time my son finally got to play with his cousins and see someone other than his parents for over 3 months. He was delighted.  It doesn’t hurt that the movie was Sonic the Hedgehog which he has wanted to see for the whole quarantine as well! 
I know that I have looked at Instagram and know that there are MANY of us that are just lost because there is nothing to plan! It hurts because we have these great planners all looking like they did “before the pen” still.  I admit it, I have many decorated pages with NOTHING written in it other than dinners and weather. 
During this break though, I have taken up digital planning too.  I am in love with what I can do on my iPad and how I can pack everything up in a little iPad and Apple Pencil and I am good to go (not that I am going from anywhere other than my home office to the living room) I have it all with me. I am also learning that I love to draw now too. I am trying to create my own stickers and see if I am any good at it. It is fun!
I am journaling more now too.  There are things that we will want to remember one day.  We are in history.  We are also learning about how resilient we are! I was a person who’s days were filled and loved to socialize, now I know I am just as good at home chilling with my family!
We will get through this, and we know that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Sometimes, the tunnel is just longer than we thought.

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