Some weeks don’t look like anything from the outside.
No milestones.
No progress worth reporting.
Just the ongoing work of keeping things moving without friction.
This week was like that.
It asked me to remember things. Not the big things but the small, easy-to-forget ones that somehow matter more.
You know the ones?
~ The tooth fairy money, late at night, when everyone was already asleep and the house was finally quiet.
~The gym kit, found and folded before morning so there wouldn’t be that familiar rush at the door.
~ The class gift wrapped the night before and placed straight into a backpack, because mornings don’t need extra decisions.
~ The library book I did not have time to look for, but found it anyway.
~ The doctor’s appointment I’d been putting off, booked in between everything else.
~ The hair appointment I kept delaying, not because I didn’t care, but because it's easier to put myself last and before I know it, weeks have passed. Now booked.
None of this is impressive.
It doesn’t look like leadership.
It doesn’t look like productivity.
It doesn’t look like anything you’d post about.
But I’ve started to notice something.
When these things are done, the house runs differently.
The kids~ and myself, move through the days with less edge.
Mornings feel calmer.
Evenings land more smoothly.
There’s less explaining.
Less scrambling.
Less fixing things after the fact.
For me these feel like small wins… but they are much more than that.
They’re the structure underneath everything else.
I think we underestimate how much trust and stability are built this way.
Not through conversations or declarations or even intention ~ but through repetition. Through doing the same unremarkable things, over and over, so life feels predictable in the best possible way.
This is motherhood, obviously.
But it’s also leadership.
The kind where no one is clapping.
The kind that doesn’t announce itself.
The kind that only becomes visible when it’s missing.
This week didn’t feel productive.
It felt fuller than full.
And maybe that’s the point.
Sometimes the work isn’t about moving forward.
It’s about making sure what you’re holding doesn’t fall apart.
~ Janet
14.12.2025
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