Comments on: How I do it all http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/ the continuing adventures of us Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:34:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Justyna http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/comment-page-1/#comment-11092 Justyna Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:59:19 +0000 http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/#comment-11092 I keep trying to come up with a schedule, but the truth is that life with kids at home and two self-employed adults doesn't fall into the neat and predictable patterns that our neighbors seem to follow. The ever-scrolling to-do list has become my tool of choice too. Even though I had different ideas about homeschooling when we first started (only 2 years ago), we've evolved into very much the lifestyle you are describing. It makes us happy, and sometimes we wonder why more people haven't discovered it! I keep trying to come up with a schedule, but the truth is that life with kids at home and two self-employed adults doesn’t fall into the neat and predictable patterns that our neighbors seem to follow. The ever-scrolling to-do list has become my tool of choice too.
Even though I had different ideas about homeschooling when we first started (only 2 years ago), we’ve evolved into very much the lifestyle you are describing. It makes us happy, and sometimes we wonder why more people haven’t discovered it!

]]> By: christine http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/comment-page-1/#comment-11080 christine Wed, 28 May 2008 21:27:17 +0000 http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/#comment-11080 That's my favorite answer to people, too: "I don't!" To get it all done would involve paying a bunch of people to do a big part of the "all." I would have to have money to do that. So ... yeah ... that's gonna' happen. That’s my favorite answer to people, too: “I don’t!”

To get it all done would involve paying a bunch of people to do a big part of the “all.” I would have to have money to do that.

So … yeah … that’s gonna’ happen.

]]> By: Kris B http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/comment-page-1/#comment-11078 Kris B Wed, 28 May 2008 14:53:49 +0000 http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/#comment-11078 Andrea, I would like to invite you over for coffee. Or tea. I think we'd get along famously. Your household sounds quite like mine, except for the teen girls part. Oh, and I don't expect you're spending good chunks of your day teaching your kids the fine art of tracking gophers... Andrea, I would like to invite you over for coffee. Or tea. I think we’d get along famously. Your household sounds quite like mine, except for the teen girls part. Oh, and I don’t expect you’re spending good chunks of your day teaching your kids the fine art of tracking gophers…

]]> By: Dominique http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/comment-page-1/#comment-11077 Dominique Wed, 28 May 2008 14:45:58 +0000 http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/#comment-11077 I feel that it is great that you are able to balance work/family/homeschooling and still remain sane. I'm also running on a to-do- schedule with a wish to do more/canalways intergrate chart on the side. I feel that it is great that you are able to balance work/family/homeschooling and still remain sane. I’m also running on a to-do- schedule with a wish to do more/canalways intergrate chart on the side.

]]> By: Barbara Ling http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/comment-page-1/#comment-11076 Barbara Ling Wed, 28 May 2008 14:37:57 +0000 http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/#comment-11076 I LOVE this comment: >> I’m a mom, but as I have repeated more often than I care to remember, I am nobody’s slave. I am not here to coddle the children to the day they decide to move on. I’m here to whip them into shape so they can be productive adults. So many parents around my neck of the woods panic if they DARE try to institute boundaries on their little darlins'..... Barbara I LOVE this comment:

>> I’m a mom, but as I have repeated more often than I care to remember, I am nobody’s slave. I am not here to coddle the children to the day they decide to move on. I’m here to whip them into shape so they can be productive adults. So many parents around my neck of the woods panic if they DARE try to institute boundaries on their little darlins’….. Barbara

]]> By: kim http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/comment-page-1/#comment-11075 kim Wed, 28 May 2008 12:38:10 +0000 http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/#comment-11075 Terrific post! I could maybe print it and tape it to my fridge for all of my friends and family who can't seem to stop exclaiming "How do you do it? I'd go insane with kids around me all day. You need a break" To be fair, I'm usually in one of my :"I need a break' frames of mind if they say that. But a break is good and being around my kids all day seems as natural as your post which explains it. Thanks Terrific post! I could maybe print it and tape it to my fridge for all of my friends and family who can’t seem to stop exclaiming “How do you do it? I’d go insane with kids around me all day. You need a break” To be fair, I’m usually in one of my :”I need a break’ frames of mind if they say that. But a break is good and being around my kids all day seems as natural as your post which explains it. Thanks

]]> By: Renae http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/comment-page-1/#comment-11074 Renae Wed, 28 May 2008 04:23:51 +0000 http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/#comment-11074 You are so right. Life doesn't wait, so who cares if the bed is made? It does help me feel I have some control over the chaos that usually reigns, but it isn't important. Once a hair dresser informed me that if she died her mother was instructed to sneak into her house to clean before anyone entered. I tried to keep my jaw from dropping. What? Who will care what your house looks like when you're dead? You are so right. Life doesn’t wait, so who cares if the bed is made? It does help me feel I have some control over the chaos that usually reigns, but it isn’t important.

Once a hair dresser informed me that if she died her mother was instructed to sneak into her house to clean before anyone entered. I tried to keep my jaw from dropping. What? Who will care what your house looks like when you’re dead?

]]> By: Jacqueline http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/comment-page-1/#comment-11073 Jacqueline Tue, 27 May 2008 21:41:19 +0000 http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/#comment-11073 I love your philosophy of to-do list but not a master schedule and that work is always waiting but live doesn't. Great wise words. Thanks for joining the Canadian Home Educators Blog Carnival. I hope you manage to fit us into your to-do list again from time to time. I love your philosophy of to-do list but not a master schedule and that work is always waiting but live doesn’t. Great wise words. Thanks for joining the Canadian Home Educators Blog Carnival. I hope you manage to fit us into your to-do list again from time to time.

]]> By: supermom_in_ny http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/comment-page-1/#comment-11072 supermom_in_ny Tue, 27 May 2008 15:45:41 +0000 http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/#comment-11072 Wow. Sounds a lot like my life except I'm a single mom of 7 kids (blended family-2 non bios). This post makes a lot of sense to me. Altough I am a Type A personality, I'm also very creative and so are my children. I'd rather spend time with them, then making them scrub the house down. There will always be things to do in the home and at work, but they will grow older and leave the nest one day... Thanks for this wonderful post. :) Wow. Sounds a lot like my life except I’m a single mom of 7 kids (blended family-2 non bios). This post makes a lot of sense to me. Altough I am a Type A personality, I’m also very creative and so are my children. I’d rather spend time with them, then making them scrub the house down. There will always be things to do in the home and at work, but they will grow older and leave the nest one day…

Thanks for this wonderful post.
:)

]]> By: Carl http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/comment-page-1/#comment-11071 Carl Tue, 27 May 2008 00:05:10 +0000 http://atypicalife.net/blog/2008/05/26/how-i-do-it-all/#comment-11071 Thanks Andrea -------- a good reminder of what's important --- now if those income tax folks would just read this maybe they would understand why I am late this year (again) Thanks Andrea ——– a good reminder of what’s important — now if those income tax folks would just read this maybe they would understand why I am late this year (again)

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