Who is the modern mom? She is a busy women who is trying to do her very best in raising her children, being a good wife, a good mate, developing her career, staying healthy, beautiful, sexy, smart, and happy. She wakes up in the morning, prepares breakfast and the school lunch, she then takes children to school and rushes to work. She has to manage and plan every day to feet into a weekly schedule.

Who is taking children to school? Who is driving them to the after school activities. What is for dinner, etc?  Only a mother can understand another mother’s balancing act. Men are not very good in this.

One day I decided that I needed to make my life easier and plan my family activities the same way as I plan my business. I made a written schedule of all activities for every day of the week and I assigned a person for each task.  My husband was picking up kids from school, my mother was helping me to drive my daughters to piano lessons, and I was driving them to tennis. I also found a responsible nanny who could baby-sit for my children when I had business meetings. I created schedule of play dates every two weeks. This helped me to organize two weeks block in my life. I found an organic food company to deliver food to our house two days a week. In addition, I decided to cook three days a week and go to the restaurant two days a week out. It took awhile for me to make phone calls, arrange the schedule and couple more dollars to pay for the help. After of one month operating on this schedule I was happy with how well it was all working out. Our family life become calmer, the children and my husband where happier, I had time to schedule a manicure and not to feel guilty that I am doing it at the expense of my children’s activities. May be my approach wouldn’t work for every mom but I encourage do more planning in your family enterprise. Believe me you will notice the difference and feel less stressful. Thank you MomRelief for helping out!

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