Schedule, Re-Schedule and Try again.

 I have to say that 25 years of marriage, 24 years of raising children I have learned how to make a schedule that runs like clock work. I did very well keeping my four kids on time to school, scout meetings, events and even birthday parties over the weekend. I worked outside the home for some of my children's school years. So it took a bit of juggling, oh, did I forget to mention my husband was in the Air National Guard and was gone A LOT? Now you see why it was important to have a strong schedule that worked well.
  I am a mom that likes to have fresh baked snacks after school, and cooks three meals a day by scratch. I work hard at keeping my house clean and organized, I even iron my sheets, This is why a schedule is so important to me.
   Yet I have to say that this is becoming something that I am having a hard time with lately. One child is out of the home, one is getting ready to get married and join the Marines, and the last two are in high school. My husband is retired and works a regular job where he is home now. So I thought this would be a good time for me to think about my own business. Yet this is not really the case. I just can't seem to get a grip on making a schedule that works well and is easy to keep on.
    I have my one year old grandson all day, which after raising for kids you think I would find this easy. I guess the difference is I wasn't trying to build a business from the ground up. I make and create everyone of my products. I create the recipes, make the products, design the labels, build the web sights and run my own spa parties. I am an Army of One. So I am finding it hard to still do my house work, cook by scratch, run after a one year old and run a business. I make a new schedule every week and I find each one harder then the last. Sometimes I feel like making schedules are more work then just doing each day as they come. I often wonder how I ran a house hold of six, with me having to act as a single mother for so many years, and kept it all on track and organized. Now...it just feels like chaos more then half the time.
   I guess it is trial and error. At some point this has to all fall into place. I am determined to make running a house, chasing a toddler and building a business work smoothing, on time and with very few hiccups. So I will sit down again and design a schedule that will more then likely frustrate me, and I will
 re-write it until it just works!

  Until then...I will enjoy being a Grandma to this little guy and always make sure is first on every schedule