This post was originally published on 5/27/22 and updated on 2/8/24 for my Greatest Hits blog series. Have you ever been convinced you would absolutely hate something and there’s no way you would ever do it, only to try it and be hooked and wonder where it’s been all your life? As I’m sure you…
As a working mom with a ton of inputs coming in all day long, I add a lot of random tasks to my to do list. For example, If I hear about a good book, I quickly add it to my to do list and then later when I’m processing my new tasks in my…
Do you have mom brain like I do? My brain is always moving and does not turn off until I fall asleep at night. My to do list is the brain dump that holds everything for me so that I don’t have to remember all the kid activities, housework items, broken this, calls for that,…
Theme Alert! November posts on the blog will be all about “to do list hacks”. I use the app “Toodledo” for my to do list, and you may use something else but I am sure you will be able to find similar features for what you use. If not, email me and I’ll help you…
Title: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals Author: Oliver Burkeman Biggest Takeaway: How I read it: Physical book from my library Backstory You Didn’t Ask For: My to do list has way too many tasks. I can’t keep up. This book made me think about productivity a little differently. Instead of trying to hack how…
Less than 10 days after school released for summer break, our summer was unexpectedly cut short and we had to completely change direction. Following that day, I just couldn’t bring myself to start posting again, so I took an unplanned break from the blog. I am making an attempt to come back to this space…
Seriously now. Do it. Three years ago I received a very nice The North Face coat as a gift in a beautiful pink color that instantly became my favorite coat. After wearing it for a little over a year, the metal piece at the end of the zipper that slides into the zipper pull came…
Summer will soon be here and I’m hoping I’m ready for it. Once Memorial Day gets here, I feel like August is basically right around the corner. Yikes! One of my favorite books for hacking mom life is The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi. The Lazy Genius framework is to be a genius about…
I have mentioned it several times in this blog before, but for the last few years, I have been feeling exhausted more than normal. This started before the pandemic but I ignored it. During the pandemic lock down, my exhaustion didn’t improve but I chalked it up to being at home so much. In…