47: Sunday Reset (T solo epsiode)

Join Tajuana as she shares her Sunday reset routine as a working mom of two boys, detailing how she prepares for the week ahead with intentional organization and time management. Using the Structured app and various planning strategies, she creates systems that make her busy week run more smoothly while balancing work, podcast responsibilities, and family needs.

• Using the Structured app to manage daily tasks and time management
• Meal prepping for the week including boiling eggs and organizing meals for the children
• Coordinating with partner on grocery shopping and meal planning
• Setting aside time for podcast tasks like uploading episodes and preparing the monthly newsletter
• Organizing laundry and laying out clothes for the upcoming days
• Immediately washing and repacking swim gear after Sunday lessons
• Adjusting the routine as needed for different seasons and activities

We'd love to hear about your own reset routines! Send us a DM, email us at turnthepaige521@gmail.com, or leave a review sharing what your reset for the week looks like.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Turn the Page
• 1:35 My Sunday Reset System
• 5:00 The Structured App for Time Management
• 8:15 Meal Prep and Family Planning
• 11:20 Newsletter Creation Process
• 14:45 Laundry and Week Preparation
• 16:50 Closing Thoughts and Request

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:04

Welcome to Turn the Page Podcast. Sisters, best friends and brunch enthusiasts With relatable episodes that feel like you're chatting with two of your closest friends or sisters. Join us as we turn the page to different topics about losing yourself in motherhood, adulthood, anyhood, and finding yourself again through meaningful friendships, shameless piles of unread library books and endless Amazon package deliveries Real, honest and a little bit chaotic. We talk about it all. So grab your favorite drink, put the kids to bed, lace up your sneaks or whatever you need to do, and join us. We can't wait to connect with you. Welcome to Turn the Page Podcast. This is co-host Tawana Page. This is a solo episode. It's just me.

Speaker 1: 0:50

Today I'm actually recording on my phone because I had this idea last night and then I forgot to do it. So I'm doing it now before I forget. But I wanted to talk about my Sunday reset and like getting ready for the week, for the upcoming week, um, so, mom of two boys, six and three we are in summer now. There's only two weeks left. It makes me so sad because I love summer, but, um, my oldest started school on the 25th first grade, which also makes me sad because time's a thief, but anyway. So, boys, they are crazy. They're all over the place all the time, always doing stuff on the weekends, but on Sundays specifically, we have them and swim at 11.30, 11.30 to 12. So in the morning before that, that gives time for breakfast and just for me to like chill and to think about how I'm going to tackle the day. But I already pretty much know that because I use an app called Structured. I've talked about it on my personal Instagram, which is teatimetawana, and also the podcast Instagram, which is turn the page pod, so you've probably seen it. It's essentially for it's good for people who are bad with like time management or have ADHD or who have ADHD symptoms. But I use it literally every day. I've been using it, for I don't even know when I started using it. I've literally been using it for months.

Speaker 1: 2:37

I'm using the free version and that's literally all I need because it does everything for me. So, essentially, you put in, like each day, what you need to accomplish that day, and I'm a checklist girl. I like a checklist, I like to cross stuff off my list and I also sometimes don't tell people but I put things on my list that weren't on there so I can cross them off. I just love that satisfaction. But this is I use it on phone and each time you do a task you like, complete it, you hit this little circle next to it that completes it, and the sound that it gives when it's like crossing off the list is so satisfying to me. Essentially, type in every single thing that I have to do each day, but pretty much it's like regular stuff, like for the podcast or like for the business side of it, like turn the page, so I always have on there Pinterest and like stuff for like the blog and the website that's on there every day day. So I just duplicate those tasks and then each day is specific, like for what I need to do, but it also breaks it down like for time.

Speaker 1: 3:54

I can't like do things like that with time. Some people can do that like, okay, I have 20 minutes to do this, like at this specific time, like 9 to20. I can't do that. I just put it in wherever it lands on the list. I don't care what time it lands on, but it automatically is a notification to my phone at whatever time I put that on and I used to call myself like a paper girly, which I used to be. I kind of still am. I just wrote some things down, actually in my planner right before I hopped on here, because I just got a call the boys have an eye doctor appointment on Monday that I completely forgot about and she was calling to move the time and I was like I'm so happy you called because I completely forgot about it. It wasn't in any of my calendars paper or digital so I actually just had to put it on my calendar on my phone and then on a paper calendar. So because it was on no calendar of mine and I completely forgot. And I clearly made the appointment last time we were there because she wouldn't have been calling, because it's in their system. But anyway I say all that to say is that essentially, if something's not written down sometimes in the paper calendar, but definitely if it's not in my phone, it's not happening Like it doesn't exist to me because busy mom of two working full time. Dad works full time also, we both work out of the house. There's just so many things going on. Summer's a little bit easier just because the oldest is out of school for the summer, but in two weeks it's ramping up again and he started soccer and then we're putting him in music lessons. There's just a million and ten things going on. So I've always been about a calendar. I used to do post-its. I've always been about a calendar, I used to do post-its. But on Sundays I have specific things that I do on Sundays. So on Sundays I put on my to-do list on Sunday on Structured to meal prep for the week and specifically what it is.

Speaker 1: 5:58

So boil eggs for the week, that's this week for me, meal prepping for them, like dad made, made dinner last night. They'll have leftovers, but sometimes it's like Because my mom has been watching both of them in the summer, like God bless her. She usually watches my youngest because he's three, but the oldest we didn't put him in summer camp because summer camp is so expensive. That's a whole other episode. But anyway she is watching both of them in the summer, so obviously they need to eat when they're over there as well and she's helping us out. So each week she'll send me a list of things that she needs for them for the upcoming week. So that also involves me like putting that stuff to the side after we purchase it to make sure that I bring it on Monday when I drop them off so she has it for them for the week. So that's part of like my meal prep, also in my mind and on my list about things I need to set aside for Juju. And also like things for the house and like meal prepping for me and dad pretty much like eats stuff on his own but he'll, like he'll eat the dinner that he makes for us and for them. But so that's specific for me.

Speaker 1: 7:10

And then, like if I have podcast things I need to do, like if I have episodes to upload, like that follows throughout the week, the days until I complete it, like I just upload it and finally has two episodes last night and it was on, had been on my to-do list. It followed my to-do list probably for like a month. Guys, we're a two-woman show, um, both have kids work full-time, so me and sissy like it's, it's just us now we're just roughing it, that's, we love it, that's what we do. But anyway, I, if I don't complete a task, I it comes with me to the next day until it's completed. But I just uploaded those two episodes last night. They'll be dropping this week and next week, but anyway I say that to say is that that was on my to-do list on Sunday, and then also I needed to start working on the August newsletter, which I don't know if you guys know, on the August newsletter, which I don't know if you guys know, but we have we, as in Tawana, which I'm talking right now, and Cherie, my sister, the other co-host, who's usually on this with me, but, like I said, this is a solo episode.

Speaker 1: 8:24

She, she, sorry, we have a free, free newsletter that we send out once a month. It's only once a month. Um, we don't spam, we send it out. Sorry, my throat was dry. I need to take a sip of water. Wow, do you know? It's lunch talking. I can do when it's just me. Um, we send it out once a month and, or, sorry, august is this month, we send it out for July and I am. I have to prep it for August, but it's free and we always have in our show notes like how to sign up and everything. You just drop your name and your email and you're added to the list and you get a welcome email and then you get the next email in the sequence like wherever you end up signing up, like whatever part of the month you end up signing up. But anyway that I had to put that on my list for Sunday because I had like.

Speaker 1: 9:22

We use a system called flow desk and at the end of each month, or like when I, after we have sent out the that current month, I always start a draft for the next month, just so it's in there and it just keeps it going. Every time I open it it's in my face until it's done. So we actually sent out July's newsletter pretty early in July, so I was able to start an August draft already right after that. So I made the August draft just put as August, put as August 2025, and that's it. I haven't started anything yet as like a placeholder, and I was like, oh, we have plenty of time.

Speaker 1: 9:59

This was in July, guys, it's August 11th today. And I was like yesterday, august 10th. I was like, oh my god, I literally have not done anything with the newsletter, nothing with it. I've not done anything with the newsletter, nothing with it. It's already August 11th, the month is almost over. Um, what am I doing? So I like quickly changed that. I, um, sheree, and I added things to the like to the newsletter, still finalizing everything. I actually did it all yesterday. I just have a few more like things to add in. But I guess you're probably wondering what's the newsletter about? Well, so happy you asked me.

Speaker 1: 10:38

We include updates of our lives. We include recipes. We include books that we're reading, like books that we've read, so it's book reviews. So it's book recommendations and our own book reviews, book reviews so it's book recommendations and our own book reviews. And then we share our podcast episodes. We also share products that we're loving and we also share like fun facts. If we come across like fun facts throughout the month, we want to share. We make note of that to ourselves. We have like Google google docs that we share. That we have for each month for the newsletter that we add in. So it's a bunch of like random, cool, fun stuff. But our turn the page community they love it. I've gotten so much great feedback, like in person if it's like my co-workers, they'll be like I tried that recipe that you guys recommend it. Or like I read the book. It was a turn the page recommendation and just like so many great things that are coming from these newsletters and they're free and people love them and we love sending them out and we just love connecting with our community that way.

Speaker 1: 11:42

But anyway, I hadn't done anything at all with it. Neither of us had. So I like had a minor freak out and I was like, just put it on the to-do list and just put it on there. Work on it today if you can. If not, continue to have it follow you until you're done. So that's what I did yesterday after swim and all the things.

Speaker 1: 12:05

So we dad mainly does the food shopping, um, but I did, did it yesterday, um, so we switch off with that. Sometimes he does it like 90% of the time and then I just did it yesterday and then I'll figure out like meals or like we'll talk about meals and we'll talk about what we're making that week. So that's part of the Sunday. And then, um, I my mom also like an added benefit and you know, for her watching us or for her watching us, for her watching our kids, she also does their laundry for me on like Thursday or Friday.

Speaker 1: 12:47

So I put you Sunday as a day to put their clothes away and also to put my clothes away that I've been doing laundry probably from the last week or throughout the week that I haven't put away yet. So Sunday is for that as well, and then getting all of our clothes ready for the upcoming Monday, and then also sometimes Tuesday for them, I'll lay them out on their dresser. Also sometimes Tuesday for them, I'll lay them out on their dresser. And then also every Sunday after swim, um immediately put their swim stuff and their towel in the washer, so I don't forget it. Um, like for next Sunday, and they have each have a swim bag, so I will unpack that, take everything out and then repack it for the following Sunday, just just so that's done, and that's like a change of clothes and just like you know, towels and just like everything. And they wear, of course, like their swimsuit to swim class. But, um, that's part of my Sunday as well and they will be doing swim like even when it's not summer, cause it's indoor, so swim all year round, which is pretty cool. They started in March, so obviously we weren't swimming outdoors in March, but they still. They still go to the pool or have been on the weekends.

Speaker 1: 13:59

But yeah, that's my Sunday, like reset and getting ready for the week and it. I need it because, like, for example, today, monday, I feel like I ran a full marathon getting them out of the house and getting them to my mom's finally, and I had to do all this stuff in the morning just because I'm always just doing a whole bunch of stuff in the morning, but a lot of things were already prepped for me to just grab and put in my bag. Like I had my mom's stuff to the side that I was bringing to her for them for the week. Um, like I will do morning stuff and then dad does pick up and dinner and I come home, decompress and then bathe them in bedtime. But I do that. I'm pretty sure a lot of the tasks on Sundays are going to change in two weeks when school starts because, like I said, soccer starting in September and then we're starting the oldest, also music lesson, so that's also going to change. But mainly Sunday is me for meal prep and just like making sure things are in check with the business and the podcast and just making sure everything is in line.

Speaker 1: 15:14

But I am interested to hear what you guys do on like a Sunday reset. That's just the start of my week. I mean we probably have listeners that you know the start of their week is maybe like a Tuesday or Wednesday. Maybe they're in the medical field and they work like three straight days or any field that you guys are in work from home, anything we um send us a dm. You can also email us. It's turn the page p-a-i-g-e 521 at gmailcom.

Speaker 1: 15:45

Um or put it in the review section about, like, what your son, what your reset for the week looks like. Um, it's just fun to hear other people's and then we will do an episode soon at the talk to Shuri about it like a morning routine one, because it's different for everybody, or like a night routine one. So I have some fun things with that as well. But I just wanted to quickly share that because it was definitely going to leave my mind and I didn't put it in my structured app so I knew I was going to forget it. So I was like, let me just whip out my phone and record this before it leaves my mind and never returns. But yeah, so that's my Sunday reset.

Speaker 1: 16:26

Um, I just wanted to come in here and share that with you guys, but I hope you guys have a good start to your week, although I'm recording this on a Monday and talking about the Sunday reset for the week, but whatever day of the week you guys listen to this. I hope you have a good week. And yeah, like, listen, subscribe and review, and I will talk to you soon. Bye, all right, everyone. This was another episode of Turn the Page Podcast. Thanks for hanging out. Don't forget to like, listen and subscribe. And also don't forget to leave a review, please, and let us know what you thought about today's episode and all the other episodes. Thanks, guys, talk to you soon. Bye.