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Well, I'm twelve hours into my time management experiment.  I'm only going to actively log between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and midnight.  Between midnight and 5:00 a.m., it's safe to say that I am either sleeping, pumping, feeding Burke, or soothing Burke.  i.e. not wasting time.  So...in my seven hours of active time logging, I have:

*spent 2.5 hours sleeping
*spent 1 hours pumping
*spent 1.5 hours preparing bottles and feeding Burke
*spent .5 hour getting the kids wiped down, cleaned up, and changed from the p.j.'s to day-clothes
*spent .5 hour doing dishes
*spent 1.5 hours doing "kid care" (soothing Burke, reading with Ruby, playing with Ruby, etc...)
*spent 45 minutes on the computer and/or watching t.v.

You'll notice that this adds up to 8 hours and 15 minutes of activity in a seven hour period.  That's because I have multi-tasked during many of these activities.  (i.e. While I'm pumping, I can do a lot of things, including computer time and reading time with Ruby.  While I'm soothing Burke, I can read to Ruby.  Etc...)

My observations so far?

1.  It takes longer to do some of the things than I thought.  For instance, if you had asked me how long it takes to do the dishes yesterday, I would have told you ten minutes.  And that might be true if it's a small load of just lunch dishes.  However, when I'm washing breakfast dishes, nighttime bottles, pump parts, and lunch dishes, it takes a half an hour.  Or, if you had asked me how long it takes for Burke to eat a bottle, I would have told you ten minutes.  But it takes him at least fifteen, and sometimes as much as a half hour, if he's distracted or really hungry.

Okay, my pumping session is over.  Back to time logging I go!  :)  I hope you're all having a good day!