Know what you need? (Hint: it’s not another “best weekend ever!” highlight reel.)
Practical, life-changing mom tricks for getting through the ordinary days.
Like, week days and work days. Those ones.
So what about a look at my life – the top 8 things that help me survive-and-thrive on a daily basis as a homeschooling, working-from-home mom?
3 time saving hacks for your day
Here’s items one through three of what’s saving my life right now – peek away!
- Sending my husband to do two of the grocery runs (we typically hit four different stores every week)
- Delegating cookie-baking to one of my daughters (they’re in that “I can make tasty treats in the kitchen? Yay!” phase)
- Listening to podcasts or videos on 2x speed (what can I say, I’d rather take less time getting inspired!)
If you’re like me, you love peeking at other mom’s hacks for saving anything – time, hassle, brain space – in #momlife.
And my signature program, #Momlife Made Easy, is like a giant collection of these hacks for everything about your day, week, chore delegation, and quiet time (or lack thereof). So don’t hold yourself back from getting the advice you truly need to make it through your day successfully – don’t buy the lie that you have to do it all yourself. Figure it out all by yourself. Get support, get advice, and get unstuck. I’ll see you over there.
More ease is around the corner of letting something go.
5 things smart moms do to save time
Now, here are five more things I lean on to get me through a full day of homeschooling, working-from-home, and the 3-meals-a-day prepping.
- Teaming up older siblings who want extra computer time with the “learn my letters” preschooler (instead of suffering through the “dino dance” alphabet jingle one more time)
- Ready-in-10-minutes taco nights (thank to premade, then thawed, taco meat)
- Answer keys for algebra (can you believe it took me this long to start using them?!)
- Fast pasta each week (somehow the kids are never tired of spaghetti, and angelhair cooks sooo quickly!)
- 4pm Instapot recipes (no pre-prepping during the day required – I can get it all done after work!)
Making your life-saving list
Let’s turn it back to you. What’s on your life-saving list?
If you’re having trouble thinking of something, try it this way: Which steps could you cut from your food prepping, homework-grading, or laundry folding routine?
Think temporary, doesn’t-have-to-be-perfect, and good enough for now.
Because it only takes a few more minutes to give you that unrushed feeling.
So skip the “right” way, enlist the kids, and announce that you’re eating angelhair for the next 4 months. (They’ll survive.)
Let the kids jumble all their laundry into drawers without folding it. (It’s not your job to get the wrinkles out of the 4-year-old’s church pants.)
Use an answer key for that 3rd-grade math you “should” be able to do in your head. (But you don’t really have the time to calculate.)
Because more ease is just around the corner of letting something go.
Which steps in your “right way to do this” are YOU deleting today?
