What I Can Do (And You Can, Too)
- Empty a dishwasher in the two minutes that it takes to heat a cup of water for tea in the microwave
- Stuff and address 40 envelopes during a board meeting and pay attention to what’s being said
- Hold a meeting on the phone on the way to another meeting (grabbing a cup of coffee in-between for lunch)
- Fax 25 pages of non-electronic content while helping my son fill out college applications
- Drive from a meeting to pick up the girl from school, deposit her at a Girl Scout event, sit in a parking lot and return phone calls and book a media appearance, retrieve the girl, pick up the boy from school, drop him off to get an allergy shot and scoot over to the library to work for 30 minutes while the girl chooses and reads a book that satisfies her homework requirement
- Chat with a colleague while making dinner, shoot off three e-mails while the dinner rolls bake, read a report while stirring the pot
- Read Newsweek cover to cover while making time on my new Schwinn exercise bike
- Fold three loads of laundry while watching a 30 minute TV show in 22 minutes (thank you, TiVo)
Multi-tasking moms — what can you do?
December 3rd, 2007 at 9:42 am
I’m not a Mom yet, but I can engage in a conversation and type thoughts on a completly different subject at the same time. So, while you are talking to me about rubber chickens, I may very well be writing a press release on cantaloupe .
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Yep, I do stuff like that regularly. Since I work at home, I’ll also do things like toss a load of laundry in while I’m waiting for a report to print, sweep the kitchen floor while I’m on a phone call, and so much more! Talent.
December 4th, 2007 at 8:17 am
I can read STLworkingmom’s blog while drinking my cup of coffee and eating bon bons.
December 4th, 2007 at 11:36 am
You’re making me tired. And I know I do pretty much the same.
D-
December 4th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Sometimes, of course, the multi tasking does catch up with you and you end up doing something stupid or forgetting some key ingredient/task.
HA — Michelle — I can eat bon bons, too — in my pajamas.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
I’m not a mom yet either, but I can watch an episode of days of our lives, work on a paper for grad school (thank you wireless internet and laptop), talk on the phone to my sister and eat dinner in 43 minutes (thank you tivo.)
I cannot cook anything, no matter what else is going on.