Takin Care Of Business

I have been asked by friends, "How do you get so much done in so little time?"  I even had one friend who coined a term she called "Crystalizing" when referring to my fast pace cleaning, and project skills.  She and others, actually took to using this term as a verb, when describing how quickly they had accomplished some particular chore or project.   I know, it's funny, but embarrassingly true.

Those were the days when I had only two and three kids.  I could slack much more than I do now, and make up for it with my speed cleaning (which is what I used to call it.)  I liked things to be comfortable, and dare I say, easy.  I would enjoy my mornings with reading and coffee, my afternoons with walking and coffee, nap time with projects and coffee, and save my chores for the hour before my husband came home.  And of course, this also included coffee.  : )

But as we had more children, and my responsibilities multiplied, and the children started school, both my husband and I noticed some big chore jams in our home.  (Think traffic jam, but with chores.  Not Pretty!)

One day, my wise and kind husband, spoke with me about this habit I had, of putting off my duties until the end of the day.  I had recently started my company, Arrayed et Adorned, and I was in the baby years of this business.  I had 2 kids in school, one toddler, and one baby.  So yes, I was a busy mom.
It was my usual pattern to drop the kids off at school in the morning, put the little ones down for morning nap, and go straight to sewing.  As a result, my other duties would pile up.  By the time lunch was done and the kids where picked up from school, I would end up with a pile of duties to choke on after school.  A time when my kids really needed my attention.  And as you can imagine, this would get me frazzled.  And as the evidence showed, I could not balance it all, thus, the talk came.