What's the Secret to Getting It All Done?

I wonder how the moms who write, have online stores (or some other form of work from home or work outside the home) get any work done at all. Do they not sleep? Are they actually super humans? Do they simply never tire? Are their SOs so involved with the family it's like the moms have 24/7 hired help? Do they have actual hired help? Do they take their coffee intravenously? What. Is. The. Secret?

I'm not the same age I was when the lovelies were little but I'm not ancient, yet. So, why does it seem close to impossible to take care of Baby M five days/week, run an Etsy shop, and do everything around the house no one else will do? What is the dang secret?

It doesn't help that grandchildren are so cute. 

I interact with Baby M the whole time she's with me unless she scoots off to the side and entertains herself- which she enjoys doing but it doesn't last long enough for me to get anything done because she's so cute I have to watch her play by herself. It's not that I mind her having time to herself it's just she's still little and can get into things in a matter of a fraction of a fraction of a second. And the cuteness factor. And I'm not as fast these days. But still...

I prefer advice that is truly helpful.

Someone suggested putting your work on the dining table so your kids feel a part of it or something like that. Perfect for me since my dining table is my work table and Baby M certainly feels a part of it as she reaches for the keys on the computer or wants to hold the paint brushes and pens. And that woman is a published author? Wow. Great advice. Anyway...

I don't remember how I did it when the lovelies were little but I did. I always had the energy to spend my day with them and the night with cleaning the house AND I got to sleep! These days, I can give up the house cleaning or the sleep. It's crazy.

This year, I'm shouting out to the working moms.

So, Mother's Day weekend is here and I'm shouting out to the moms who have full-time jobs inside or outside the home and still manage to do EVERYTHING else because no one else is going to do it. I have nothing but total respect and admiration, ladies!

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms who can do it all!

And live to tell it. 

This post is linked to Five Minute Friday where we write for five minutes about the prompt without stopping. Well, mine went on after the timer stopped and I didn't want to lose my train of thought but I don't remember where I was when the timer beeped. So this is probably about 10 minutes.

The prompt this week is MOM.

Please visit my Etsy shop, CoasterDoodles
and feel free to FAVORITE the shop
or buy something! :)

Are People Really That Stupid?

Apparently, they are.

I'm talking about ROWE- Results Only Work Environments. The problem I have with is not with the concept but with the fact that people are JUST NOW figuring it out. How slow and stupid can we be?

Isn't the fact that being allowed, encouraged, to put your family first by employers results in more and better productivity common sense? It is to me.

Getting the work done without worrying about when and how is a MAJOR stress reducer as well as MAJOR productivity producer. Duh.

Think about it---if your employer encourages you to put your family first and, as long as deadlines are met and work is exemplary, tells you it doesn't matter whether you do the work at home or at the office or whether you do it from 9-5 or after midnight, wouldn't you WANT to work for that person? Wouldn't you WANT to produce exemplary work? Without question- YES!

Not to mention the fact that businesses can save on their overhead by lessening the numbers of desks AND office space. If an employee needs to come into the office, they can reserve a desk and come in. Even their utility bills would go down. Thus saving energy.

Sounds like a win-win-win to me. But then, I've always held to this belief. What annoys me is that the idea seems new and revolutionary to the work force. I suppose I should just be glad that they FINALLY adopted some common sense. But I can't help but wonder how much further along they'd be had they awakened decades ago. Seriously, I was thinking this back in the 70s and I'm sure I wasn't the first or only. It's not new. It's not revolutionary.

I think it's gaining notoriety because it now has a label. ROWE. Who knew that's all it would take for common sense to kick in?

If that's the case, I'm going to come up with a label for husbands. One that will have mine doing what he says he's going to do in a timely fashion. And for messy daughters who move back in and disrupt my neat and clean empty nest.

Or maybe I'll just change the locks. Ha!