Your Best Summer WAH Tips!

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Permalink Reply by Grace Becker on July 1, 2010 at 10:49am

I adjust my working hours to start around 4:00am so that when the kids are awake, I can focus on them.
Planning simple meals that take less time to prepare give me more time to do other things
Write your schedule down
Time your activities to avoid wasting time.
Prioritize and simply decide that family is first when they are all around, the fall, winter and spring gives you more business time if the kids are in school. Use the summer to recharge.

Have a wonderfully blessed day.
Grace

Permalink Reply by Jennifer Raybaud on July 1, 2010 at 10:01pm

Well God bless you for getting up at that hour! I'm not a late sleeper by any means but you take the cake Grace with the 4 AM wake up! :-)

Thanks for all your contributions. You have some fabulous insights.

Permalink Reply by Amy Naughton on August 4, 2010 at 3:47pm

I recently hired a babysitter to help me two mornings a week. I work for 3 hours in my home office while she plays with my little ones. I find this greatly reduces my stress level and frees up time in the evening so we can have more family time and a more relaxed bathtime routine. Previously I had been rushing the kids to bed so I could work after bedtime. Now we can have a more relaxed evening, which is perfect for the summer.

Another time saving tip-at least one night a week we have a cold dinner-usually salad and bread. This cuts down on cooking and prep and gives me more time for everything else going on in the summer.