What a day!  My back knows I was busy today…

What is on your to-do list every day?  How do you figure out what is the most important?

A long time ago I learned this little saying: Drop – Delay – Delegate – Do!

There is also a little quadrant that looks like this:

Have you ever looked at your to-do list through this lens?

So instead of blogging today, which is my joy to share with our readers, I got busy attacking the work that needs to be done to set up for a pleasant school year and efficient Bradley classes.  Here is how Drop – Delay – Delegate – Do looks with the quadrant:

Instead of trying to get everything done, do what you can do while you maintain a semblance of sanity.

We are coming up on some exciting times in our family and pretty soon people are going to start descending on the house.  If I want to clean once, I need to do it.  I know where I want to find things, and I also want to get on with the purging!!  It’s easy to throw things in boxes and hide them behind a closet door (been there, doing that when I choose sleep over cleaning!).  I find that those boxes become an albatross, taunting me and calling my name when I really just want to sit and enjoy our children or dig into a good book.

So I am sorry if we missed each other today…I hope you had a great day.  While we enjoyed camping out on our living room floor the first three days of our school year…it is *really* nice to have the school room organized, the kiddos back in a rhythm, and our living room is closer to being ready to receive guests…and now our physical space for school is ready which means I will be in a better mental space and I also have a place to write that doesn’t make me sit at crazy angles…yeah all around!

Each kiddo has a dedicated shelf, our table is clean, and lots of manipulatives, books, and art supplies!

I still have to straighten up the dining room table that becomes my desk when I run out of space in the school room.  I will get to that tonight after the kiddos are in bed!