Getting Tons Done, Stressing Less – Time Management

the focus funnel

I have been getting so much done lately! I have been stressing a lot less!

A friend of mine posted this Blog post on facebook.

How to get more done when you have small kids.

That post lead me to

My New Blogs

Hello all my followers. I have divided my blog posts out to several different blogs based on posting topics. It did not seem right to have a blog post about Homeschooling one day and then the next day have a blog post about being a Survivor of Abuse all on the same blog.

Crock Pot Cooking

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Sometime in this last week. I was talking with my five year old. I had mentioned my crock pot in a conversation and he wanted to know what that was. I was surprised he did not know what a crock pot was. But as I thought about it, I really have not used my crock pot in a long time.

Thursday – Mom’s day off

So I have declared Thursday as Moms day off. Why? Because Thursday is the one day I am not running crazy busy ALL day, just PART of the day. So, no, I do not really get the whole day off. But I try to take some time in the day for me. Today in the middle of the day I sent my kids off to play, had the house to myself, and I could not think of what to do, just for me. I kept almost starting to-do tasks, or working on projects. I kept having to remind myself that I was taking a break. I relaxed, caught up on some blogs, wanted to blog some new posts… But my brain seemed blocked and could not blog. So now…. I have stayed up several hours after bed time blogging about all the things I wanted to do on my day off. Ah well… Best laid plans… I had fun blogging, and, I did spend some time not doing any important tasks, just taking a break, so that was good.

What did I do on Saturday

• Ballet Practice Son
• Ballet Practice for daughter
• Ballet Practice for daughter
• Started Etsy Shop
• Promoted Slice of Life coloring page.
• Promoted Free page on Facebook
• Set up a Facebook page
• Clean Frontroom
• Clean Hall

What did I do today?

That feeling when you get down to the end of the day. You are exhausted. And you cant remember what you did all day. Instead all you can see is the to-do’s you are surrounded by that you did not get to.

In the past I have blogged about my to-done’s so that I can feel a sense of accomplishment. Instead of feeling frustrated at all I did not do.

Dyslexia Breakthrough

My third daughter has struggled quite a bit with dyslexia.  We happily stumbled upon a wonderful reading tutor who has been helping her with reading quite a bit.  She has been making steady improvements because this reading tutor knows exactly what my daughter needs to work on.  We have been very happy with her and with the steady improvements in my daughters reading.

Intimacy

Dare I write a post about this topic?

My good blogger friend Grace to Survive just wrote about this topic Childhood Losses Due To Abuse. If you are not a survivor of sexual abuse you may need to read her post to understand this post in context. Those of us who have been abused struggle with intimacy.

No Knead 100% Whole Wheat & Molasses Bread…

I want to jump up and down and CHEER!!!!!

We have been cleaning out our Garage all week…. Because the 24th of July is a holiday in Utah, Pioneer day.

GUESS WHAT I FOUND????

Drum Roll Please…… (Oh I guess you already know from the title of this blog post 🙂

I found my FAVORITE bread recipe.

Alluminum Allergy and PTSD symptoms

I have been transferring over old blog posts from 2009. They were on a blog I had that was dedicated to Aluminum Allergy. It was a blog I wrote when I discovered that Alum powder is often in foods. The foods that are most likely to have alum are pickles (for crispness) tortillas (for crispness and anti caking) baking powder and many baked goods such as cakes, cookies etc (for anti caking), and sometimes even special sauces at restaurants (like cheese sauce, again for anti caking).

Best Pins for April 2012

Your Children Want You!
I just love those pins that change you. This great post speaks directly to the heart of us avid pinners. April helps us remember our priorities. Children want their mothers time more then anything, even fancy projects made with buttons, and all the other pinteresting things.

Best Pins for March 2012

Projects Like Ravening Wolves
Actually, I think I should vote this post best pin of the Quarter! It is this pin and the best pin of April that inspired me to start a Best Pin of the Month list. I am now encouraged to get ride of lots of false projects in my life. What a fresh and funny way to look at clutter and projects.

Best Pin of Feb 2012

Beneficial, Edible and Useful Flowers
Um… Yes, I did vote my own pin the best. This is because of all of the pins I have pinned this one got the most repins. And I like it :). But I am sure I am bias.

Great Tree Planting and Care Information

Treelink.org has some wonderful Tree Care Posters. I wanted to be able to find these posters easily and pin them so I am reposting them here on my blog.

Beneficial, Edible and Useful Flowers

List of Flowers sorted by usefulness

Unique Berries and Fruits

Wonder Berry
12-24″
Full or part sun
Potting soil, watered well
Sow seeds 1/4″ at 70-85 F
Keep Moist. Germinates in 2 weeks.
More online How to Grow a Wonderberry

Say I Love you more.

Soap Making Plans

Supplies you need to start making soap.

Read how to make soap
a Recipe, of course (you can make your own using a soap calculator, listed below)

Biscuits for Biscuits and Gravy

I love this biscuit recipe… We have made it several times.. but then I lost it. I posted it to recipezaar but their new webpage wont work. I am posting it to my blog so I can find the darn thing again.

Our Poultry Houses

Stage 1 Chicken Brooder

Simple Beauty

If you get simple beauty and nought else,
You get about the best thing God invents.
– ROBERT BROWNING, Fra Lippo Lippi
Simple Beauty is my current focus. There is so much around in the spring to enjoy and be happy about. I have a working camera now, the joy! It is my goal to create, enjoy and find simple beauty all around me. Here are some of the Simple Beauties I found around my home.

Signs of Brain Plaque

This post and other posts tagged “The Muffin Mama” are from a blog I had that was dedicated to Aluminum Allergy.

Symptoms of Aluminum from Unknown Sources

When we were in the middle of the remodel I seemed to have days when I felt aluminified, and I could not figure out the source.

After I ate Wendys I

After I ate Wendy’s I felt aluminumified. My guess is there was aluminum in a special sauce or cheese sauce.

I am up to my

I am up to my eyeballs in boxes, and having a hard time knowing where to start. Don’t think, just do, seems to be what I need.

I am texting from my

I am texting from my cell phone. I have slept all day. I am going to blame that on being prego. I just moved in last week.

Wendys

Wendy’s

Don’t eat

Pickles

Cheese sauce

nuggets

Crispy Chicken

fish

tater sauce

Good

French fries

Salads

Carls Jr.

I looked at Carl’s Jr today to see what I could eat there… The list had allot good on it.

What went wrong today

• It was cold 71, all I want to do is crawl in bed when it is cold.
• I had a dream about a miscarriage.

Aluminum Free Fast Food – McDonalds

Mcdonalds as of 10-31-09

Aluminum makes me have some strange emotional reactions….

First I remember many of the times when people have expressed in any way criticism of me.

Then I totally believe that the criticism is valid, and that they meant the worst of any number of ways their comment could be taken.

Then I feel low and messed up for all those ways I can be criticized.

Then I can only see my flaws, and nothing good about my self.

Then I get depressed.

Falling Asleep at the keyboard

I am trying to read through and post emails that fit to my blog. But I keep falling asleep. I just now almost banged my head on the keyboard because of the sleepy head nod. I guess I need a nap.

Cinnamon Roll Humor

Don’t you just want to take a bite?

A picture is worth a thousand words…

To bad I can not send their smell through the computer. Maybe in the future computers will not only let us see and hear, but also smell. Of course it would only give you a syntheticscent, and most synthetic scents are toxic.

Todays Report

• 6:34 am Klove is on, I love it!! Now off to get garbage bags and boxes.
• 6:38 am I have garbage bags, boxes and tape. Yuck it is cold outside!!! My poor birds. I hope my new tekfoil insulation comes soon so I can repair their home. Mental note turn on their heater today.
• 6:40 Klove song – In the hands of God we stand tall…. got to love it!

Feeling Good

Today the city is leaving a dumpster at our home. We had hoped to have the home cleaned out and all the extra unwanted stuff, that was not good enough for the DI, ready to go into the dumpster. But alas that is not where we are at. I took today off of work because I feel and inspiration coming on, and I am ready to attack my home. These To-Do lists on here have proven to be helpful so I am going to try that again today. Well.. Actually my to do list is simple to get me started.

Only Half of the Story

It seems I am much more likely to post on my blog on my bad days. Those are the days I am all a fuddle and need to sort my brain out. The good days I am away from my computer more getting things done.