Does Time Shrink When You Grow Older?

I'm a little bit baffled.  There appear to be fewer hours in a day than there used to be.

All those years ago when I began homeschooling, we had a third grader, first grader, three-year-old and one-year-old in our family.  I still kept up with laundry, had a hot meal ready at dinnertime (well, usually) and maintained our home so it stayed at a decent level of cleanliness.

As time passed, the kids got older so my work load shifted as they took on responsibilities at home.  That allowed me to work part time for about nine of the past eleven years.

Now I work two part-time jobs, mainly from home, but I cannot  keep up with anything anymore.  The concept of time management, which I thought I had nailed, is eluding me.

Laundry sits in baskets for days turning into a wrinkled mess.  The clock reads 5:30 p.m. and I am clueless about what to put on the table for dinner.  We run out of milk and fruit and laundry detergent.  The bathroom sinks are grimy and none of the windows have been washed for a very, very long time.

Where is all of that missing time going?

Have any of you noticed some strange time shift in the past decade?  What do you do to keep yourself on schedule and carpe diem?



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Crazy Days

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Transitional-Woman has been living through some crazy, busy days.  Not only hasn't there been time to blog (Because am I smart enough to have a large library of posts prepared ahead for busy times?  I think you know the answer.), there hasn't been time to cook or clean either.  Not to mention ironing, but, heck I try to avoid ironing and completely forget about doing it for weeks at a time anyway.  Laundry, on the other hand, I am good with laundry.  Getting it folded is a problem, though.  And did I mention I've been sick for two weeks?

So, anyway, I've got great material for posts bubbling in my head because there have been tons of transitions taking place in my world.  And one of those posts will be about Time Management because that's been a big mountain to climb lately.

I hoping to be back on track by the end of this week because not only have I been missing writing this blog, I've been missing reading my favorite blogs too.

One piece of business I neglected to mention was that there is a winner for the Tropical Traditions Gold Label Coconut Oil (I used some of mine to make three loaves of banana bread today.  Want to guess how I did that with a broken oven?  Oh, yeah, I also haven't had time to shop for a new stove either).

The winner was Danielle C.  She has been notified and Tropical Traditions will be sending her a free quart of Virgin Coconut Oil very soon.