Isabella... and a Little Something

I had planned a great big post in the days before Isabella was born but I just couldn't work out how to insert all of the photos throughout the post since Blogger automatically inserts them at the beginning, and in the opposite order to how you list them for uploading. Cutting and pasting simply didn't work at all and neither did dragging and dropping since I could only drag the photos as far as the height of the post area (about 7cm) which meant LOTS of dragging and dropping to get a photo in place.

Does anyone else have this issue? If so, how did you overcome it? Do you insert all your photos first, in the order you want, and then type your text between the photos as you compose your post?

Or do you compose it in a simple program like Notepad or Wordpad first and find some way to insert the photos without having to drag and drop each one multiple times before you get them into the places that you want them in your post.

So, that big post is sitting unfinished while I work out how to write a post without it taking an unreasonable amount of time and more problem solving brainpower than I have. What with lack of sleep, that isn’t much right now!


In the meantime, I thought I’d share with you my very simple To Do List that I got out again this week in an attempt to organise my thoughts and focus me to get some things done in the small spaces around looking after sweet Isabella. It’s a PDF - let me know if you have any problems accessing it since I’ve never linked to a PDF before (that is, I have absolutely no idea how to do this!).

To help me be organised, I have some extra columns that may need some explanation….

Priority - I put a number (1 to 5) to help me easily see the most important things in the list - that way I can focus on all the number 1 things first and so on down the list
Status - I do this in the form of a circle which I draw in once I’ve started on this line item and fill in the quadrants as I progress - this way I can keep track of how much of that item I’ve got done.. or finished!
Project - like ‘Marketing’ or ‘Personal’ so that I can see at a glance where this line item fits in
Action - the actual thing I have ‘to do’
Time - an estimate of how long I think this line item might take - that way if I only have 20 minutes I can look at all of the high priority tasks and choose one that will take about this long so that I can maximise my time - it can also be used to plan out your whole day so that you end up with a list of things to do that match up with your amount of available time - that way I don’t schedule more than is realistic in my day and end up feeling bummed if I haven’t achieved it all

That feels like a long description for a simple list that’s actually quick to fill out and saves me lots of time and energy. Anyway, there it is. I hope you find it useful.

The only thing left to do is leave you with more pictures of our wonderful, kissable Isabella Scarlett. She was born on August 31st, the day after my birthday. Is there some kind of cosmic timing there? I wonder...