Balancing Acts
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30 Days of Thanks: Work Completed
I’m one week into my great business experiment (the one where I offered a web design package and set out to build one site per week) and so far all is looking good. Recent Launches I finished the first website perfectly on time and am very pleased with it. (I also designed WestBay’s logo…
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Not June Cleaver
I love sitting in a clean house. I love knowing that every room is picked up, the floors are fur free (at least until someone pets the dog — NO ONE PET THE DOG!!), and there isn’t a single dish festering in the sink; knowing that I can sit guilt free at the computer and…
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Report Card
I need to manage my time better. I just spent 20 minutes deciding on/editing/uploading on a new cover photo for my Facebook timeline. The dishes are done, the bathroom is clean, and the floors were swept yesterday, but mopping just isn’t going to happen. Again. I need to finish a proposal for a web design…
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First Week
I came back from Texas with a cold (caught on the way there, presumably), and though I feel much better now, I feel like we are running a few days behind. I was good the first day back about pushing through, and managed to get the downstairs cleaned, suitcases unpacked, and laundry washed, but then…
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All I Want to Do
There are a million things going on this week, and all I want to do is find a comfy place to plop down… Sorry Saturday Surfing didn’t happen, or Sunday…or even today. Things might be a little quiet around here this week as I try to finish up some websites by the end of the…
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Report Card
When did I last write a report card? Weeks and weeks ago…so here’s a quick explaination incase you forgot (or are new here). “Report Cards” are supposed to be my weekly reporting on how I’m doing with my Housewife Challenges which are my goals for myself, whether parenting, personal, or household related, and my attempts…
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Hiring Help
In the world of parenting blogs, there has been much discussion lately of how we “do it all”: cooking healthy and homemade meals, maintaining an immaculate house, and raising perfect and adorable children, all while finding time to blog about it. Of course, the answer is, we don’t. No one “does it all”. The meals…
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I’ll Never Be a Professional Blogger
Last week in the New York Magazine, there was an article about the Queens of Mommy Bloggers. As I read through the article, couldn’t help but think that I will never be a professional blogger. These women make hundreds of thousands (maybe even millions) of dollars off their blogs (which would be nice) but they…
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Free Time
It’s been radio silence here on my blog, since lately I’ve been putting all my energy into this and other work during my essentially non-existent free time. When I finally managed to check my email today, there were 27 new messages…and don’t even get me started on my online reader: I’m getting close to that…
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Reflections on Christmas
We’re well into January now, the tree is down, and our Christmas decorations have been packed back into the attic for another year. Most people have moved on to resolutions and are maybe even starting to think about Valentine’s Day (or so one might surmise from looking at the grocery store shelves). But I’m still…
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Resolutions
It’s a little late, but I do have some New Year’s resolutions. I’ve been thinking about setting realistic goals for the new year (Simple Mom has a great post on this) and decided just to set three of them: Do better at the Housewife Challenges. Stop being a housewife. Don’t let 2 get in the…
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Back to Work (A Little)
We’re in the land of mega-chains and drive-throughs! (A.K.A. the rest of the United States outside of Nantucket.) Saturday morning, we were on the first ferry off the island at 6:30 am. After an adrenaline filled morning of, “oh my gosh it’s 10 to six, we have to go!”, we had a leisurely 2 hour…
