As I sit down to write the menu for the week, I’m writing out my 4 weekly “to do” lists (personal tasks, blogging tasks, cleaning chores, less common maintenance cleaning tasks).   It’s helping me to accomplish things that easily get pushed aside otherwise, even if I don’t get them all checked off!      Last week I ended up sleeping a lot during the day.  Little One has been sick, and then moved unexpectedly to the toddler bed, so that’s {Read More}

As I sit down to write the menu for the week, I’m writing out my 4 weekly “to do” lists (personal tasks, blogging tasks, cleaning chores, less common maintenance cleaning tasks).   It’s helping me to accomplish things that easily get pushed aside otherwise, even if I don’t get them all checked off!    As I went through the laundry room / mud room cabinets last week I found lots of loose batteries.  I didn’t feel like messing with them {Read More}

As I sit down to write the menu for the week, I’m writing out my 4 weekly “to do” lists (personal tasks, blogging tasks, cleaning chores, less common maintenance cleaning tasks). It’s helping me to accomplish things that easily get pushed aside otherwise, even if I don’t get them all checked off!    Wow- week 20 already!  There are only 2 weeks of childcare left for Little One.  Little Turkey’s last day of preschool is Tuesday.  Oh my, that’s a {Read More}

As I sit down to write the menu for the week, I’m writing out my 4 weekly “to do” lists (personal tasks, blogging tasks, cleaning chores, less common maintenance cleaning tasks). It’s helping me to accomplish things that easily get pushed aside otherwise, even if I don’t get them all checked off!    Last week I started off being very productive.  I’d marked 2 tasks off my list by Monday (or was it Tuesday?).  Then I quickly lost my momentum {Read More}

As I sit down to write the menu for the week, I’m writing out my 4 weekly “to do” lists (personal tasks, blogging tasks, cleaning chores, less common maintenance cleaning tasks). It’s helping me to accomplish things that easily get pushed aside otherwise, even if I don’t get them all checked off!    Last week I had completed my tasks by Tuesday.  Here’s hoping for another productive week.  (so far so good!) I’m learning hope doesn’t have much to do {Read More}

As I sit down to write the menu for the week, I’m writing out my 4 weekly “to do” lists (personal tasks, blogging tasks, cleaning chores, less common maintenance cleaning tasks). It’s helping me to accomplish things that easily get pushed aside otherwise, even if I don’t get them all checked off!  This week I spent about an hour working on painting the trim in the kids/guest bathroom this week.  I even managed to get everything on my homemaking lists {Read More}

As I sit down to write the menu for the week, I’m writing out my 4 weekly “to do” lists (personal tasks, blogging tasks, cleaning chores, less common maintenance cleaning tasks). It’s helping me to accomplish things that easily get pushed aside otherwise, even if I don’t get them all checked off!  Last week I was not very motivated to finish painting the edges of the trim in the guest/kids’ bathroom. Instead I decided that I would organize our son’s {Read More}

As I sit down to write the menu for the week, I’m writing out my 4 weekly “to do” lists (personal tasks, blogging tasks, cleaning chores, less common maintenance cleaning tasks).  It’s helping me to accomplish things that easily get pushed aside otherwise, even if I don’t get them all checked off! This week’s maintenance chores in addition to daily functioning cleaning chores: Mail state taxes (I don’t know why I can’t seem to remember this) Finish edge painting in {Read More}

As I sit down to write the menu for the week, I’m writing out my 4 weekly “to do” lists (personal tasks, blogging tasks, cleaning chores, less common maintenance cleaning tasks).  It’s helping me to accomplish things that easily get pushed aside otherwise, even if I don’t get them all checked off! This week’s maintenance chores in addition to daily functioning cleaning chores: List 4 baby items on craigslist Dust air vents (I probably should have done this before the {Read More}