One of the blogs I follow for quite a long time is Career and Kids. Although I barely never left a comments, I like to read all the information there is about management of time while having a career or a full time job and kids.

This week I read a interesting post over there called Time wasters that caught my attention.

Being a full time worker from 9 to 18.30, time is not something I have to give away. I arrive home around 19.00 or 19:10, and I still have to cook dinner, baths, and do all the other stuff there is to do.

Like Elisabeth, I also gave up on TV (being online is not the same OK!), no time to watch TV.

What I find I could cut on and would save me some time (and patience too) are conversations like this:

• Me: Go upstairs and have a bath
• Son: I wanna see what’s on TV
• Me: Leave the TV
• Son: But I wanna see this
• Me: The bath is more important
• and this conversation goes on, goes on

This happens every day and it’s time consuming.

I guess I must establish a rule and as soon as he arrives home he gets his bath and then watchs TV. He’s 8 so he knows I end up letting him watch TV because I can’t continue arguing because I have to start making dinner, but I guess, if I establish that rule and don’t break it, he will get used to it and in a few weeks he’ll be taking his bath without a complaining word.

Another Time Waster is not having prepared the Menu for dinner. I end up asking the kids what they want and they end up asking for different things and I waste a lot of time deciding what to cook.

Bed time is time consuming once they never want to go to bed and specially my daughter wants me around while falling asleep. In this situation, having two floors doesn’t help once I have to be on the second floor while they are falling asleep and I end up not coming down anymore to do other stuff.

Are you a working mother? How do you manage your time?

These are chocolate calendars of my kids. They started on the 1st of December to take the first chocolate and now it only ends on Christmas day.

One window a day, one chocolate a day, well, it should be, but my daughter started shaking the calendar box, the chocolates got all mixed up and she already ate one she shouldn’t have.

These calendars were bought by my MIL, Ruca theme for my son and Kitty for my daughter.

This is our family Christmas Tree. This picture was taken on November 24th right after my husband and the kids ended decorating the Tree.

Now there are a few more decorative items once it’s tradition to put true small chocolates hanging on the tree. Of course some of the chocolate, mysteriously, disappeared on the first days but now I guess everyone forgot there are chocolates among the decorative items.

Beneath the tree there are now two chocolate calendars. I’ll write about them on my next post.

We have also  other decorative items around the house like these two:

I’m behind on posting due to my camera problem, lack of time, a lot of work in the office, etc..

I’m going to catch up and update.

I saw this Quiz on Tina’s Blog and I couldn’t resist to check “How addicted to Blogging am I?”

Considering that I work full time and that not always I have time to blog as I wish, I can say that I’m already addicted to blogging and I, sometimes, leave important work aside to read a blog post or write a post.

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New York Dating

Today it was a special day for my daughter. She has Ballet Classes once a week in daycare center and she needed a complete ballet outfit, so we went to a nearby city, to a special store and we bought the outfit.

It was very, very expensive and I know that in one year it won’t fit because she’s growing and outfits don’t grow. Her happiness was worth a million word and the money spent.

We also bought a Ballet backpack where she’s going to transport the outfit. As soon as I’m able to get my photos in the computer I’ll post them.

The outfit includes a body, collants, a coat, a skirt, ballet shoes and some hair accessories.

I think an activity, a sport is very important in a child’s life, especially when it is something they enjoy doing and not something forced by parents or other people. My daughter is thrilled with ballet classes and she really is entering into the ballet rhythm, I hope she continues feeling this way.