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It’s a busy world, and it seems everyone is multi-tasking their way through it. I fall into that trap often, and I say trap because for me, multi-tasking is the surest way to get nothing done. I start something, start something else, get caught up in something else, think I’m getting lots done because I […]
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We are working really hard on getting everything back to it’s place when your done with it. Organization is the key to sanity as a mom.
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I can greatly relate! I’m needing to get more organized.
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I admit that I sometimes still struggle with prioritizing my time. I literally have 101 things that needs to be done, and half of the time I’m lucky if I complete 10, bad right? I’m really trying to work on it, but with my husband being gone 70% of the time, it’s so hard. I need help and I need it BAD. I write it down, that don’t help. I try to do the hardest things first, but it doesn’t help. So, I definitely need to work on this (as I have no more hairs to pull out lol).
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I love the tips to ask for help and prioritize your time!
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Great tips!! I am a person who is open to getting more tips and tricks on organizing, as I suffer from being an unorganized mess at times, hahaha!
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I am so guilty of not returning things to their places. I need to work on that!
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Thanks so much for the great tips. I definitely need to try these tips to get more organized.
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Prioritizing my time seems to be my biggest hurdle. There just never seems to be enough hours in the day!
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Great tips! I am sorely lacking in the time management department lately.
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I couldn’t imagine not being organized. I don’t use planners just my brain which can be a mess sometimes lol. I think the biggest would be schedule, stay with routine as much as possible. It will help so much when kids begin to understand everything.
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You have some great ones listed, I think those cover the important ones.
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I totally agree about keeping most used items nearby. There were some things I didn’t even bother to put in a permanent home because they were used so much.
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One of my biggest goals for this year was to get more organized. I need to get serious about it again. I’m going to start with some spring cleaning and get rid of a lot of stuff.
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These are great tips! It’s hard to get organized sometimes with kids.
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It’s not easy staying organized. I am learning to delegate to not get too overloaded.
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It’s so hard to stay organized. I’ve been making and keeping an editorial calendar to keep myself organized in that aspect
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I always felt uncomfortable asking for help when my daughter was little. Looking back now, I wish I had your advice then, it would have made me a better mom sometimes if I had not felt the need to always look like I had my act together. Most times I didn’t!
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I’m working on getting life organized as we speak. Prioritizing my time has been the biggest thing to tackle….especially with working from home.
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Yes, they are distracting little critters aren’t they. Lucky they are so cute 😉
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I’m terrible with time management. I know that I should be able to accomplish more in a week than I do, I just need to figure out how to do it!
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I rarely use to ask for help though I do now but I still don’t put things away.
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Yes, multi-tasking is the name of the game!!
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Do not be upset if you cannot get things done. You can always do it another day.
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I agree that you don’t need to have every single item marketed to parents. I do better with just a couple. More creates clutter in my life and I can’t stand clutter.
Road trips are something I grew up enjoying with my family, which is probably why my husband and I plan to take a lot with our own children. I have wonderful memories of long drives while we sing and talk, and fun places we’d visit during our vacations. One of my favorite places to visit […]
He doesn’t know I’m here. But he knows the forks are in there. He’s looking for the pens. To write on the walls. Again. He found the cheddar chips. They were inside a high cabinet. But he learned chairs aren’t just for sitting on at dinner. It doesn’t matter than he just fell down the […]
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I can see that there’s never a dull moment with that one 😛
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Boys…they’re something else! He’s a cutie while he’s getting in to mischief at least!
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OH, you’ve got a little mischief maker on your hands. He’s a cute one though!
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Hahha they are so cute!!! He sounds like my nephew, very curious about things!!!
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Awww, he’s a real cutie! It looks like you’ve got your hands full.
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What a little stinker! A cute one at that!
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Gotta love the (not so) terrible toddler stage!
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Little boys I tell, he’s too cute!
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My daughter is going through one of those torture mom phases. I miss that little angel who turned into s mischievous wee boundary testing imp a few months ago.
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Sounds like boys! 🙂 Your sons are so cute!
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I’ve always wanted a boy, but then I hear the stories of how rambunctious they are and I have enough with my two precious girls.
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LOL too cute even when he is misbehaving.
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Oh my gosh that is so my 13 month old twins! If they even breath on the other tears begin and then it start in unison. Good Times. 🙂
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Are your boys opposites? My son never was one to get into mischief. He was an early reader and would spend hours reading instead of playing with toys… he was strange like that. I often wonder if I’d had another child if he/she would have been the opposite of him and been more mischievous. He is awfully cute!!!
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Haha. I’m going through the same thing with my daughter. She gets into everything! She’ll be turning 2 in July, but I believe she has been going through the Terrible Twos for the past few months now.
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No, both are very curious and stubborn 🙂 But my second is definitely easier going.
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Oh you’ve got your hands full, but he is adorable!
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Oh my goodness! I never had to go through that. My daughter was the kind of child that if you gave her some toys and told her to stay where she was…she would. I don’t know if I could handle all that curiosity and energy in a little one. Bless you mama!
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I LOVE this post! I definitely could have taken a similar photo series with my son. I don’t know if it’s a boy thing or what but they just love making trouble at that age!
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Oh the joys of toddlerhood. Mine gets into trouble all the time too, and the more you tell her no the more she seems to want to do it. She’s overly attached to me. I can’t do ANYTHING without her attached to me in some form or fashion. She’s literally curled up next to me laying on my arm while her brothers play. I keep reminding myself, this stage will end all to quickly and I’ll miss her little body attached to me!
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Looks like you’ve really got your hands full.
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Life with boys 🙂 They are so adventurous and curious.
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silly boys. My boys climb all over eachother too
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My son is the same way. They are such little stinkers aren’t they! 🙂
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What is it about second children? They’re such adventurous monkeys and so advanced thanks to their older siblings!
All parents want the best for their children, and we aren’t any different, so we moved to a wonderful neighborhood with top rated public schools. The elementary school my son is supposed to start in the fall when he enters kindergarten is literally 4 blocks from our home, a beautiful stone building located on a […]
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We thought about it but it is very expensive and decided to homeschool.
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Oh how I wish our schools in our local area were good quality schools. I love homeschooling our kids, but I feel like it holds me back from really making our life better because I can’t “work” like I want to in all areas of our lives. I feel like I’m being held back from doing what I should be doing, and in many ways, I feel like I’m failing them.
However, we’ve tried every school system around us (within a reasonable driving distance away for us that’s well over a 20 minute drive one way.) ALL of them were horrible.
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My son currently attends a top-rated elementary school. However, I’ll probably send him to a Christian school once he goes into junior high since I’m not a fan of the public middle schools or high schools (too much goes on). Junior high is around the time I started going to a Christian school. 🙂
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Yeah, that’s a big decision!! I can understand the fear!
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You’re doing what you think is best for him and it sounds like a great fit. Our church Pre-K is phenomenal and known around the county for how amazing it is, but for some reason that doesn’t continue very far into the elementary school. :/ We ended up putting the girls into a charter school.
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I actually homeschool my daughter and that continues to work well for us. I think every family needs to see what best suits them and I’m glad you found the system you’re most comfortable with!
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Good for you, making the decision that is best for your children. I hear you on the long drive. We are about 30 minutes away from anything. Before I started homeschooling the boys, I would drive my oldest to a school in a different zone. It was a total of 2 hours total every day taking him and picking him up from school.
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We live in a really, really nice neighborhood and the school my kids attend is considered top rated and have received many awards. They’re a little strict and do some stuff differently, but I like it because my kids know so much more. My oldest daughter speaks five languages, she knows how to play five instruments, and she draws beautifully. But, if I had the money to send my kids somewhere else, I’d jump at the chance, especially if it’ll make them more competitive in today’s world.
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It always feels so good after making a big decision like that! My son is currently in private school because they don’t offer public preschool but we’ll be trying out the public school when he starts kindergarten in the fall because the school he’s zoned for is supposed to be awesome. If it doesn’t work out, he’ll go back to where he’s attending preschool now.
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It was never a consideration for me be because we always chose a home based specifically on the school district so I knew the kids would be well taken care of in the public school system. My sister and my brother both chose to send their kids to parochial schools though.
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My kids go to public school because we can’t afford private. We would really love to send them to the Catholic school that’s less than 2 miles away, but it’s just way out of our budget. I’m going to a home school conference this summer to see if that’s a road I’d like to take.
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Sounds like a great school with lots of great opportunities!!! The commute would be rough after awhile but so worth it in the end! Maybe you can find someone in your area to carpool with!
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Ooh, good thinking!
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Wow, I can’t believe so many families homeschool! If I were more organized and had teaching skills, I would consider this, but I don’t, so it would only hurt my children for me to even consider homeschooling.
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Both of mine go to public schools however with budget cuts, changes in NYS curriculum etc…I’m very disappointed. I don’t understand why education has to be cut from budgets. It is so important.
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Good for you and our situations sound very similar! I could easily walk a short block to the school bus pickup and send my children to our zoned elementary school, but like you, I want what is best for them. Instead I drive them 15 miles each way where they attend a charter school. Here they learn violin, have dance and theater classes, also learn a second language, and have smaller class sizes. Sacrifice is the true definition of a good parent!
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Our son is in his last year at a public elementary school, but we opted for it over homeschooling and other schools. It is the top-rated school in our county. We have loved it. However…. he will not be going to a public middle school. We are still trying to decide between a local christian school or a Montessori school, but it will be one or the other.
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Yep, we always want the very best for our kids. I’ve never heard of a parochial school before.
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I did think about private schools for a while but we have been blessed by really good public schools.
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Mine is in a Catholic highschool. I went to catholic school my entire life and I thought it worked for me, it can work for him.
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My kiddos go to a public school that is 3 blocks away. The same school me and my siblings went too. A few of the same teachers are still there too!
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Wow, that is awesome! Do they remember you?
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You are such a wonderful mother, giving them the best that you can give. And amazing how teachers or anyone OTHER than a parent knows so much more than a parent does according to our children LOL.
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I would go with the well rated public school myself. That comes from knowing several families who were not pleased with the results after spending a near fortune sending their kids through expense parochial school & finding out the kids in public school were faring better getting into good colleges.
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We had considered a private Christian school for our daughter when she was younger, but she ended up attending a magnet school for gifted learners through the public school system. When middle school arrived we were unhappy with that school and again considered the private school but we just couldn’t afford the tuition, which is when we decided to homeschool. It’s been a tough journey some days, but I think it turned out pretty well for us in the long run.
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That’s great, Penelope! I’m sure it’s going to be a great experience.
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We’re sending my oldest to the Christian preschool attached to our church right now but they don’t offer anything beyond preschool, so in the fall she’ll be attending public school. At the same time, my younger daughter will start at the same preschool. I trust and adore the teachers at the school so much, I know they’re both in good hands!
I love the “No hurry, no worry” motto…. I think I should start taking some selfies.
I’m ready for a Florida vacation. I hope to later this year.
Great sweeps! I’d love to visit there and go kayaking!
I think I would most like to just sit on the beach and enjoy the wind and the waves 🙂
It seems like the last few times I was in Florida, it was just for an overnight or short layover before a Caribbean trip. I’ll take a cocktail by the beach at sunset for my GCFL visit please!
I could definitely use a real vacation, looks like fun!
Looks like such a fun place to visit.
I would love a vacation even a mini one! We haven’t had once since our honeymoon… 5 years ago!!
Awesome selfie love your activity! I am very much a beach person.
I adore Florida and would love to visit Gulf County! It looks like there’s so much to offer!
Looks like a wonderful place to visit!
I would LOVE to go there! Anywhere with a beach I’m happy.
That looks so beautiful. We definitely have some gorgeous places here in Florida.
Walking and playing on the beach sounds like my kind of vacation. I haven’t done much kayaking but would love to try again some day.
Gulf County sounds like an amazing vacation spot. We just took a “get away from it all” mini trip and I’m already ready for another one!