Martins, Managed™

About Charlotte

Somewhere between what I built and what comes next.

I'm Charlotte — a mom of two who just left a fourteen-year career in corporate America. I'm in that strange, exciting middle where I'm proud of the career I built and increasingly clear that I want the next chapter to make more room for this life. This is where I post about my journey. Pull up a chair.

Charlotte on the floor at home with her two children

Every system here runs in our house first. My husband and I use our task tracker every day, and Kitchen Brain has planned our meals every week for the last six weeks. Wardrobe Managed, which plans trip outfits from my digitized closet, has been through two real trips and is still being refined, and Kids Packing is being tested by other families now before it comes with us on our cruise. If it hasn’t made our week easier, it doesn’t make it to the shop.

Charlotte holding her newborn during her second maternity leave

Featured · Life

How Maternity Leave Was Different the Second Time Around(It's Not What You Think)

The second time, I got to slow down and take a breath instead of rushing — to cuddle my newborn and imprint her smell in my mind.

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Two more to read

Walking hand in hand past the Sevilla Cathedral as a family

Travel

Europe with two kids

Florence → Provence → Sevilla

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Charlotte standing holding her daughter, her son at her side holding her hand

This journal was started for us.

A place to keep the trips, the meals, the ordinary days and the family moments I knew I'd want to remember later.

Stay present.
Help others.

The family's hands stacked together on a walk

A little more from our life

New recipes, places we’ve been, things I’m figuring out, and the occasional ordinary day worth remembering.