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   Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 5:25 PM

Everyone's ready but you (back to school carousel)

Uniforms washed. Lunches labeled. Forms signed, shoes found, bags by the door. Everyone in this house is ready for Monday except the person who got them ready. Here's the part nobody warns you about the first week back. It isn't the tasks that flatten you. It's the deciding. Decision fatigue is a real, documented effect. Every choice you make draws on the same limited capacity, and the small ones cost you the same as the big ones. What's for dinner. Which shoes. Whose form is due Thursday. Small withdrawals all morning, and by evening there's nothing left to decide with. So the fix isn't doing less. It's deciding less. Four permissions for this week: 1. You don't have to cook tonight. Whatever's already in the fridge counts. Eggs, bread, cheese, fruit, last night's rice. Feeding your family doesn't require a recipe, and it still counts as feeding them. 2. Pack the same lunch all five days. This is the one that actually gives you something back. Decide it once on Sunday, write it on the fridge, then stop deciding. That's five mornings of thinking you don't have to do. 3. Go to bed before the kitchen is clean. The dishes will keep. Sleep is what you'll be making every other decision with tomorrow, so it's the last thing to sacrifice, not the first. 4. Start the new routine on Wednesday. You don't owe Monday a perfect system. A week that begins midweek is still a week. None of this is falling short. It's running a household through a transition, which is real work, and it's allowed to look unglamorous while you do it. "But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.'" 2 Corinthians 12:9 Sufficient. Not sufficient once you've earned it. Which decision are you taking off your plate this week? Tell me below. Want the free 5-day Glow Guide? Comment GLOW and I'll send it over.