Busy? Yeah, me too.

    This was my column published recently in The Catholic Weekly (under a different headline though!).   I’ve been a little obsessed lately with the idea of time management and just trying to work out how best to use my days. Clearly most of my time is spent on physically caring for young children,…

40 things to do before I turn 40

I celebrated my 39th birthday last week and now I’m really looking forward to my 40th and the start of a brand new decade. My 20s was about making two big life choices and having my first baby. My 30s was all about having four more babies and having a lot of the assumptions I’d held from my teens and 20s…

Just a note to say I haven’t gone away

We’ve had a busy three weeks around here and I hope to get back to a rhythm of writing and posting again soon. I also hope to write to you soon, if you’re a subscriber, to thank you so much for encouraging me to get to six months of blogging on this website. It’s been…

Good time management means sometimes ditching the to-do list

  This is a post I wrote in 2011. I have better time management skills now and it has a lot to do with having realistic expectations of what I can do at any given time. It was a great lesson and obviously one that I’ve since been able to learn. ****************** I thought I’d learnt this…