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Busy? Moms are very busy. How do you balance your work, whether you are working at home or outside the home? Whether your children are babies, toddlers or teens, there is just so much to be done.
Meal planning, cooking and baking, housework, homework, paying bills, medical appointments, laundry…the list goes on. And then, as many of my readers are, we add in the business of blogging. Yes, I do consider it a business, even though it has brought me more happiness than ever, I do need and want to make money with my blog. And I have set some pretty steep goals for myself for this year.
So, how do I balance it all. Well, unfortunately, I don’t have the answer, and quite honestly, since I started preparing for the holidays, things starting getting left behind.
I figured today was a great opportunity to get caught up a little with some much needed blogging business. Several weeks ago, Emily over at Marvelous Recipes was so kind to give me a Honest Scrap Award. Thanks Emily! One of the things that I have been needing to get done is passing on the Award.
Note: After getting this post ready, I checked my email and what a nice surprise, another blogger gave me this award also. Thanks, Jill from Frugal Plus 
10 Things About Me
1. I am a perfectionist, and it gets me into trouble quite often.
2. I dream of having a large farm house in the country (wish I could take our home right now and move it) so I can have a few chickens, a little livestock and a very large garden.
3. I love playing cards and games, and I need to make more time to do this.
4. I have a terrible sweet tooth, that’s probably why I bake and post recipes so often.
5. I am a collector, Snowmen, Tea Pots, and Cookie Cutters and love to display them.
6. I hate Winter, yes we currently have about 14 inches of snow on the ground.
7. Spring and Summer are my favorite seasons, the hotter the better.
8. I coached gymnastics for 25 years, school age and High School.
9. My Mom was a florist for 40+ years, I often wish I would have carried on her business.
10. I am a Christian and try to live God’s plan.
I am passing on this Award to just a few fellow bloggers, not because I don’t love all of my great online friends, but because we are all so very busy and I’m trying to balance my life right now.
~Susie @ Susie’s Homemade
~Phoebe @ Cents To Get Debt-Free
~Jamie @ My Baking Addiction
~Monica @ Daily Dwelling
~Cheryl @ Tidy Mom
I also have a few more bits of business to catch up on…
With the help of Joy (Blog Designer Extraordinaire), you now have the ability, if you would like, to print my recipes. You can find the little printer button at the bottom of the post next to the categories.
I have a new button in my right sidebar from MomWebs. They are my host for my blog and I can’t say enough good things about them. I’m not a techy blogger, at all, anytime I have trouble I just send an email and Scott is super quick to respond to my question. If you are looking for a new host, I highly recommend MomWebs.
Now that I have a little business taken care of, it’s time to get back to balancing my life. I do have a few tools that I use that have helped, my Household Organizer, Scheduling my Blogging, Planning my meals for the month and the Power of 3 (more on this later).
Don’t miss my giveaway, a fun Cupcake Bath Bomb!
Today, over at We Are THAT Family, we are having a backwards day, answering questions, and because I’m trying to figure it all out…
How do you balance your life?
Do you use any great tools that have helped?
I am inspired–I need to be more organized!
.-= Allyson´s last blog ..New Years Resolutions =-.
I make a schedule and try to stick to it, but really it is just hard to manage everything that comes with being a wife, mother, and keeper of the home. In the end, we just need to seek to do those things that please the Lord and if everything else doesn’t get done…it’s okay.
.-= Sandra ´s last blog ..WFMW: Backwards Edition =-.
Where/How do you display and store your cookie cutters?? Mine seem to multiply like rabbits in my cabinet!
LOVE the option to print your recipes!!!
Going to check out your recommended fantastic sites!!
.-= Ann Marie @ Household6Diva´s last blog ..SURE! SURE! un-sure. un-sure. =-.
@Ann Marie @ Household6Diva, I have my regular cookie cutters in a large basket on a shelf in my kitchen and my antique ones in an antique pie plate on the counter. Thanks for visiting!
~Liz
Wow!! Thanks a lot for the recognition!! I am going to walk around with a smile all day:-)
Thanks for the Award!! you’re too sweet!
I’ve spent the last week or two catching up on blog business too!! purchased TidyMom.net, making my recipes printable too! (mine is set up a little different than yours – so I have to go back and do all of my past recipes)
I LOVE your Household organizer!! I need to do something like that! – I did buy a binder to organize my printed recipes with!- that’s a start!
I use my Google Calendar for blogging schedule/organizing – but I’ve slacked on that lately too! LOL
Fun post!! Thanks!!
~TidyMom
.-= TidyMom´s last blog ..Lisa Leonard Designs {jewelry} GIVEAWAY! =-.
Balance is a toughy and one that so many moms struggle with. It really all starts with prioritizing your life and then prioritizing your to do list accordingly.
It is also important to live by a schedule as much as possible and I limit my time on Twitter, FB, checking emails, etc until my “work” online is done.
.-= Melissa Multitasking Mama´s last blog ..The road trip from… =-.
@Melissa Multitasking Mama, That’s great advice. Thanks!
~Liz
It is hard to keep up with it all. I have a hard time balancing, too
.-= Sherry´s last blog ..Book series ideas? and a Giveaway! =-.
What is balance? I’ve been trying to find it myself lately… good luck to you!
Balance is always something that I have had difficulty at! I have found that my best way to keep balance in my life is to have a schedule and follow it (at least loosely). Otherwise, the computer seems to suck me into its black hole and I lose all of my time for all of the things that I need to accomplish – especially spending quality time with my precious little ones.
.-= Relishing Life´s last blog ..Simple Pleasures of Winter =-.
This is something that I’m working on. My current plan of attack involves a Daysteps planner (www.daysteps.com), the book Organize Now, and a lot of patience.
Our household is a little nuts, so scheduling and attention to routines are the two best things we can do to help our kids and ourselves stay reasonably calm/patient.
You are so organized! I’m so jealous of your organizational skills. You need to pass some of that organizational juice to me
.-= Nutmeg Nanny´s last blog ..Chocolate Chip Crunch Cookies =-.
@Nutmeg Nanny, LOL! I’d be happy to.