Learning to Multi Task Again

Hello All,

Just wanted to keep you posted on how this stay at home Mom for almost 20 years, (yep .... spread those kids out and you get an excuse for much longer ) is doing at learning to Multi Task again after so very,very long.  I had figured out how to run boys to soccer and get the laundry done and stock the fridge.  But now with this new and very exciting adventure of launching my first book, I have to retrain myself to sound professional and together.  To return many phone calls and emails and to update many sites and yet continue to get all that other stuff done too.

I have to hand it to working Mom's, I really really do respect you.  When you feel spread thin, you feel like someone is getting the short end of the stick.  Now that my son will be 15 soon, he is pretty independent, but yet I don't want to look away too long, ya know? Gotta stay on top of every portion of his life that he will share.  Even some he won't ;D

Trying to continue to stay in contact with family and friends when they are use to you always being free and now you feel like you are bailing on them all the time is just no fun.

Hoping your husband continues to be proud of you and understanding as mine has been for the past 3 years when I first began this venture.

I might even have to buy some decent clothes that don't have paint or holes in them.  ;D

Something will just have to give, and I hope that it is just the dust on the stairs that suffers.  I want to give this challenge my all and I want my children to know that their Mom was more than just a maid and a taxi driver.  NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT !  (Seinfeld reference) Because I have been here for them and they have always known they came first.

So as I try to Multi-Task after so many years of having plenty of time to get MY JOB done and felt that no one was left behind, I fear that something will fall through the cracks and my super woman cape will begin to never get ironed.

Hats off to the Dust, the bugs and the weeds that may just not get pulled by working Mom's.  I'm BACK!  It feels good, and I would love some advice on how to stay in control and not feel overwhelmed and or guilty.  GUILT... oh Lordy, that is my biggest fault it seems.  So GUILT BE GONE!

I have a book to sell !!!!!!!!!!

Won't you help me please?

Thank you Mom's and any other interested parties, I value each and every comment.  So let them fly!