Thursday 29 December 2011

How She Does It?

A mother of two - you learn how to juggle/multi-task.
Here are a few of my tips

  • Use a calendar all the time and try not to double book yourself.  
  • Plan ahead if you can. 
  • Find short cuts (two birds with one stone) ie when purchasing take outs make sure there are some leftovers for snacks for later. 
  • Make use of the crock pot - mother's best friend.  
  • Have your hubby cook dinner a few times a week.
  • Not afraid to have someone to help you like your husband, grandparent, or aunts/uncles.  
  • Pick your battles.  
  • Don't sweat the small stuff.  
  • Take one day at a time and if laundry/dishes does not get done - it is OK, it can wait.  

Picture from savvymom.ca

7 comments:

  1. A calendar and making lists are essential

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  2. when I had my girls I went back to work early only because of money issues, and I had to be at work for 1:30am and I worked till 12 noon. thank goodness the babysitter had most of the housework was done! I went to bed everynight at 8 and my girls just fell smoothly right into that routine which was also nice, but now that I'm home on disability they are grown and moved out, wish I could've spent more time with them when they were younger

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  3. Keeping everything on a calendar sure makes sense and makes life that much easier.

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  4. Occasionally you hit the odd pothole on the road of life but if you follow these tips it wont be such a big hole that you can't climb out of

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  5. Small stuff sometimes eats our life, good point just take everything easy.

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