The Evening Sheet — free printable

Four steps from the last meal of the day to lights out, counted backwards from bedtime — and a sheet to write down what actually happened over a week.

It is not a routine chart with fixed times. Times do not survive a day that slides. The order survives, and the order is what this sheet is about.

What you get

Two pages as a PDF, ready to print on US Letter. Page one is the poster for the fridge door. Page two is one week, where you note when the lights went down, when she got into bed, when she fell asleep, and whether she woke in the night.

Why the second page is the important one

After seven evenings you can see on paper what you cannot hold in your head: whether she falls asleep faster on the evenings the lights went down on time. If she does, the sheet is working, and you simply keep going.

If she still wakes in the middle of the night no matter how the evening went, it is rarely about the evening. Then it is about sleep pressure, and I have written a whole guide about that.

The sheet costs nothing. All I need is your email, so the file can be sent to you.