Wednesday, April 27, 2011

New Productivity Standards



Since I have reduced my time at a place of employment (where I get paid) by 20 hours I have assumed 20 hours of childcare and household work. One job replaced by another. When I worked full time Scott helped with grocery shopping, laundry, etc. But the point of me being at home was to reduce the hectic pace of our evenings and weekends so I have happily taken on some of the tasks that used to be shared. I am very grateful for the freetime we can now enjoy on the weekends. However, my productivity when at home with Evy is absolutely laughable. At any given point I have at least 5 partially completed projects going on (interrupted by the demands and needs of a two year old) and if I'm lucky a couple of them will get completed that day. And, it takes me 9 hours to finish 2 loads of laundry. But that's ok. That's 2 loads I don't have to do on Saturday.

2 comments:

Laurie said...

Thanks! I'm glad I'm not the only one!

Morgan said...

Enjoy this rate of productivity while you still can. Once #2 gets here, you will wish it only took 9 hours to get those two loads done! :)