If you had asked me a month ago what I needed to learn, I would have confidently answered,
"Python."
I was convinced the only thing standing between me and my ideas was learning how to code. So I set out on the arduous journey of learning Python.
While I was learning this wonderfully obscure language that somehow uses English words to mean completely different things, I decided to start a side project.
"I'm going to build a KDP planner."
There are thousands of them, by the way.
But I told myself,
"Mine is going to be different."
And I still think it is.
As I was designing it, though, I kept thinking,
"This is helping...but what if this lived on my phone instead?"
What if, instead of flipping through pages trying to squeeze tiny notes into already crowded boxes, I could open an app each morning and instantly see exactly what each of my kids needed to do—even after a crazy day where half our plans changed because someone got sick, hockey practice ran late, or life simply happened?
I didn't want another planner that I would constantly erase and rewrite.
I wanted something that could adapt with us.
As I kept pulling on that thread, I realized something much bigger.
The mental overload wasn't just in homeschooling.
It was everywhere.
Planning homeschool around sick kids.
Long hockey drives.
Building a startup.
Managing finances.
Trying to remember what I was supposed to do next before another interruption pulled me away.
What I really wanted wasn't another app.
I wanted a way to stop carrying every decision around in my head.
I wanted a suite of tools that could hold onto the plan for me so I could spend more of my mental energy where it actually belongs—with my family.
At the end of the day, I'm just a mom.
Like every parent, some days the hardest part isn't doing the work.
It's figuring out what work should happen next.
That realization changed everything.