Checklists

Today, a neighbor mentioned doing one thing at a time, and that that was what I am doing at home as I sort through everything and prepare for living with a baby.

I thought about it and then replied something like, ‘More like fifty things at once,’ and I meant it. I truly have a boatload of things going on at once in the house. Many things are ‘in process’ at present. I don’t often have one thing being accomplished from start to finish in one go. It takes starting several things just to be able to finish the first. Sure, sometimes, I just get distracted and start doing something other than what I had intended. But I mostly operate well by doing one step at a time across several things, making progress across the board. I stagger them, of course, so I am still accomplishing the completion of one or another every few steps of the way. I tend to treat them as a lot. Once the lot is completed, I can put together and start a new lot. But everything in one lot is worked on at the same time, to different degrees.

So, yeah, fifty things at once, it often feels and seems. But then they all kind of get done in quick succession, once the first one is finished. Today’s bits were very much like that. Haha But I accomplished loads, and I feel good about it.

Tomorrow will be another set of tasks all tied together across several bigger tasks. I am excited for it(!).

God, guide us always, please. Make me and the baby well and safe, please, and keep my husband safe and well. In your name, I pray. Amen.

Post-a-day 2024