Help! Just went from SAHM to WAHM!

[judejude]

I am freaking out! There is not enough time to do everything and I just go from one thing to another and I feel like I'm not getting anything done.

The dishes need to be done, we have about 6 or 7 loads of laundry to do and I still am not getting any work done. I feel like the walls are closing in. I opened the windows (high of 49 today) and have talk radio on which has seemed to help.

How do you-all organize your time?

I have 3 e-mail accounts now, including my personal e-mail, I have 2 twitter accounts (including a personal one), a facebook page, but want to start a group on FB to go with my new blog. My goal is to get my blog up and running and make sure it is very professional and eventually sell some ad space on it. I'm reading about building blogs, marketing yourself, etc., etc.

How can I get everything done? but more importantly, how can I organize my time so I get more than tid-bits done?

Oh ya and dd now says - "are you on twitter or your blog again? it's not like it's important!". She is 13 and is developmentally delayed and she sees computer time as fun time and just thinks I have an addiction to the internet. OK, that could be true but that's beside the point

Oh ya, and the lazy blog listed in my signature isn't the one I'm working on

[judejude]

[mamadaan]

Mothers' writing group

Have you tried posting on the Mothers' writing group sub-forum? There are a lot of women there doing similar things. I do something a bit similar, but I write for other people. I find that it helps to have one computer priority at a time. So I read my private e-mail or my business e-mail and then shut it down. DS1 has got a bit unhappy about me being on the computer so much recently. Now I try to turn the computer off when he comes home from school.

[Kinguk]

Yes, I have had to limit my computer time as well. It eats your time. Althoug we go on there too work, it's easy to do other things on there as well.

My internet was down for a couple of weeks so I had to go to the library. Having only 1 hour per day on the computer there I made a to-do list. I flew through everything I needed to get done in record time. Once I got my computer back I have kept up with the to-do lists. I accomplished so much more when I didn't have a computer in my house!

I give myself 1.5 hours on the internet after she goes to bed. During her nap I do office work for half her nap, and me time for the rest. I try to avoid being on the computer when she's awake. It's just not something I want her to think is normal My mommy never had internet, cell phone, blue tooth, pager, Ipod's and so on and so forth.

[judejude]

thanks so much for your advice...and I did cross post on the writing group now