Catching up

As I write this, it is currently 6:30 on Sunday morning and I have already been up for over an hour.  My sweet son is miraculously sleeping through the night now, but still likes to get up at the break of dawn.  This has presented me with the marvelous gift of some time to myself, which I thought I would never get again.  Incredibly, I am starting to get caught up!

As a self employed person, there is no end to the amount of work that there is to do.  Add in being a new mom and a wife to a guy with a demanding job and that amount of work doubles.  I am balancing/juggling so much at once, that I often feel like there will never be an end to my "To Do" list.  This week I managed to break through and I'm actually seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. 

I kept the babysitter for an extra 4 hours on Friday and sorted and filed all of my teaching materials (from 5 different gigs), in addition to cleaning out my studio.  Wow!  Yesterday morning after the 5am feeding, I cleaned out two of our closets and discovered that there is a lot more room in there than we thought.  (Living in NYC = not that much closet space, but that's for another post...)

This morning, I tackled three tasks:  Starting a Twitter account (@brendaestokes), starting a Facebook Band Fan site  http://www.facebook.com/BrendaEarleStokes and signing up for a new e-newsletter provider.  (I have used Constant Contact for years, but it's really expensive!) 

This morning time has become sheer bliss and I enjoy tackling these tasks while drinking my coffee while it's still hot.  At the rate I'm going, I will be through my "To Do" list by the end of June!

Once these tasks are done, I will start the new big project: Editing and publishing my entire catalog of Sacred Voices music.  Check out one of our performances here.  This is something I've been wanting to do for years, but have not had the time and focus to do it.  I suspect that this work will also be taking place in the wee small hours of the morning...