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The secret to getting everything done

After years of struggling with how to “do it all”, I’ve finally figured out a simple idea (though still not easy in practice) for how to get everything done.
After years of struggling with how to "do it all", I've finally figured out a simple idea (though still not easy in practice) for how to get everything done.Being a mom is busy. It may not seem like a big deal to keep the house relatively clean, make sure everyone has clean clothes, and get some form of nourishment on the table three times a day, but try doing all of that with multiple small children in tow…and it turns into an Olympic event.

That’s not counting all the teaching that comes with mothering…teaching manners, reading, arithmetic, appropriate social behavior, personal care, and a slew of other little and big lessons that need to be addressed regularly….

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It’s okay to be a tortoise

It doesn’t matter how many items we cross off our to-do lists in a day if we exhaust ourselves and burn out before the finish line.

What an old fable taught me about slowing down and enjoying my life as a stay-at-home mom

I’m a list-maker.  To me, there is something triumphant about sliding a pencil across an item on my to-do list, marking my accomplishment.

“I am productive!” I yell (internally, of course, because it’s nap time and I am NOT risking waking up my children and ruining my productivity).

I’ve always been a task-oriented person. It’s important to me to feel like I’m making progress each day…contributing to the world in some way. And one of the biggest adjustments to motherhood for me has been the lack of tangible progress toward meaningful goals. When I taught middle school, I could check off how many lessons I’d planned, how many essays I’d graded, and how many parents I’d contacted. I could evaluate my students’ work and gauge my own effectiveness by their progress.

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