✦ The Allsmiths
Blake and Chandler Allsmith Blake & Chandler · 7 kids · 1 spreadsheet

Organize your whole family life — the way you organize everything else you care about.

My wife and I use Google Sheets religiously to manage our family. We've got seven kids, a couple businesses, and fourteen acres on the Ohio River. It's how we stay on the same page instead of quietly running two separate households. Want a peek at our setup? We turned it into a free template you can copy in two minutes.

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Take a peek inside

It's not a cute PDF. It's our actual operating system.

Four areas. Sixteen tabs. The same setup we open every week. Click through and see what's inside before you ever hand over your email.

Start with the marriage.

Every system falls apart if the two of you aren't a team. So the first tabs aren't chores — they're the weekly date night, the 1:1s with each kid, and who owns what, on purpose.

🕯️Date Night Convo's — your standing "founders meeting"
🧒Kid 1:1 Convo's — questions that actually open them up
🗂️Org Chart — who owns what, so it's not all on one of you

Know where you're headed.

Most families drift. These tabs put your values, your mission, and this year's goals in writing — so decisions get easier and everyone's rowing the same direction.

🎯Mission — one sentence the kids can repeat
🧭Vision — spiritual, relational, physical, financial
💛Values — the handful you actually live by
✅Goals — a scoreboard the whole family can see

One rhythm that runs itself.

The heart of it: a weekly family meeting with a real agenda, plus quarterly and annual check-ins. Twenty minutes a week is what keeps the whole thing from sliding back into chaos.

⏱️Weekly Meetings — gratitude → goals → calendar → problems
🚫Issues List — a place to park what's not working
🚁Quarterly Offsite — reset the goals every 90 days
🏖️Annual Retreat — the one weekend that sets the year
🔭SWOT + Annual Calendar — the once-a-year zoom-out

Make the house run on autopilot.

The unglamorous tabs that quietly save your sanity: a simple budget, a weekly rhythm, repeatable routines, and the "capsules" that end the daily decisions.

💵Simple Budget — money in a few clear accounts
🗓️Weekly Rhythm — the default shape of your week
✍️SOP's — routines taught "I do, we do, you do" so they stick
🥙Meal Capsules — stop deciding what's for dinner at 5pm
👕Clothing Capsules — fewer clothes, fewer decisions, less laundry
🔧Chores List — who does what, without the nagging

Before you picture us having it figured out

We tried a lot of things that didn't work. Like, a lot.

The point was never a perfect system. It's the lightest one that survives a real, messy, seven-kid week.

The stuff that flopped

Our greatest hits

A one-page, size-12-font "SOP" for how the kids should do the dishes (lasted two days). Fifty pre-made vegan breakfast burritos so nobody had to pack lunch for a quarter (so disgusting). A budgeting method that told us to "reward" ourselves into more income (it wrecked our budget).

What actually stuck

One 20-minute meeting

A single family meeting each week. That's the engine — it gets the whole family out of your head and onto one shared page. Miss a week? You just pick it back up. Nothing to rebuild, no guilt.

The Family Framework by Blake and Chandler Allsmith — book cover

The full system, in one place

The Dashboard shows you what. The book shows you why — and how to make it yours.

Paperback · $18.99EbookAudiobook Publishes October 13, 2026
"What Blake does best: distilling complex ideas into bite-size, easy-to-activate truths that make you go, 'wow, I've never thought about that before.'"— Jefferson Bethke, New York Times bestselling author
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Who's behind this

Home here runs a little like a startup and a little like a summer camp.

It started the week we sold our company in 2019 and landed back home nearly broke, with baby number five on the way. We sat in a coffee shop, opened a blank Google Doc, and tried to build a plan. Seven kids and four businesses later, that plan is the system that runs our family.

We're not experts who cracked the perfect family — we're two people running a beautifully chaotic one. Blake ran a startup for eight years; Chandler homeschools the seven kids, runs our rentals, and hosts a podcast (for fun, apparently). Our family mission is four words: enter for refuge, go out and restore. This is us trying to live it.

— Blake & Chandler

Blake and Chandler Allsmith

From families like yours

What happens when the chaos finally gets a system.

★★★★★

"I've tried every planner and app. This is the first thing my husband and I actually use together — and keep using."

JP
★★★★★

"The mission and values tabs alone changed how we make decisions as a family. I didn't expect a spreadsheet to do that."

Judy
★★★★★

"Our weekly meeting went from a nice idea to a real rhythm. Twenty minutes and the whole week feels lighter."

Bianca

Want to run the meetings, not just read about them?

The Family Meetings Bundle is our video walk-throughs plus ready-to-use templates for the weekly, quarterly, and annual meetings — the exact cadence that keeps our home from sliding back into chaos.

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Before you ask

A few honest answers.

Is this a Christian thing?

We're a Christian family, and it shapes how we think about all of this. But the system itself is just practical — plenty of folks who don't share our faith run it happily. Nothing preachy here.

Will my spouse actually do this?

Honestly? Mine thought it was a little lame at first. Start with the free Dashboard and one 20-minute meeting. If it hasn't earned its place in a month, drop it — no harm done.

What do I actually get for free?

The whole Family Dashboard — one Google Sheet, sixteen tabs, agendas and templates included. Copy it in about two minutes. No credit card, nothing to buy first.

Is it really free, or is this a funnel?

It's really free — 15,000+ families use it. We do sell a book and a few courses if you ever want to go deeper, but the Dashboard costs you nothing but an email.

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