Is your to-do list a bloated scary monster? Mine is. Before I had children, I used to pride myself on how very efficient I was. Now, with two small children I feel like I am constantly crazy busy, yet never get anything done! How is this possible?! Small children require a lot of hands-on, interactive parenting, and while it’s a short-lived job, it leaves little time to accomplish all your tasks. The cherry on top is that you are utterly exhausted come bedtime and yet there is still a mountain of things undone on that annoying to-do list. Parents are multitasking fiends and are indeed a special species all of their own. Homo Parenteous Insaneous Multitaskus.

Enter OneThingToday. It’s an awesome to-do app for the iPhone and the Mac. It helps you to focus on one single goal each day, avoiding the distraction of all your other pending tasks or ongoing projects. You simply assign a single task or project to each day and Git ‘er Done! OneThingToday is designed for people who only have time to tackle one major task each day, and who find themselves overwhelmed by all their pending tasks in their limited time. It helps you prioritize the one thing that is most important for you to complete each day. It is genius in it’s simplicity. As one user puts it, “…you will be amazed at how good you feel as you start to whittle away at what was previously an overwhelming to-do list.”

It is just what I needed! Today, for instance, while wading neck-deep in all of my regular daily tasks, I was finally able to get rid of the bags of clothing I’ve been meaning to take to Goodwill (for the past 2 months) because it was my OneThingToday task. Hooray!

OneThingToday is not only good for Insaneous Multitaskeous, it’s also good for iPhoneus Irritateus, the executive mom or dad. The iPhone app is available at the iPhone app store and the Mac version is available from Line Thirteen.

Full disclosure: OneThingToday is brought to you from your friendly neighborhood biophysicist. My brilliant husband, Dr. McCutiePants, actually developed this software. He’s got a passion for programming. I’d like to think he did it all for me because he loves me so much, but I’m guessing he did it to finally get me to remove all those bags of Goodwill donations from our garage!

WIN IT!

To Enter: Simply leave a comment here telling me what your OneThingToday task would be for the day. Also please specify which app you would like to win – the iPhone app or the Mac version. Winner will be selected at random.

For extra entries:

• If you ‘Like’ Absolutely Delightful on Facebook, you get another extra entry.
• Blog about this giveaway with a link back to me.
• Follow me @AbsDelightful on Twitter and tweet about this giveaway.

Closes July 21, 2010 at 5pm PST

I’m baaaaaaaaack! I’ve been off the grid for a few days with a cold and just busy days, in general. It’s been a chorus of sneezing around our house but we’re on the mend.

Mercedes at Common Sense With Money is giving away a Bumbleride Indie. Now, it’s no secret that I am a big fan addict of the Bumbleride Indie and here are some of the many reasons why.

Wear your child’s name close to your heart with an Isabelle Grace Jewelry charm necklace. Each piece is made by hand, and crafted from sterling silver, 24 carat gold and semi-precious stones. Personalization options include names, birth dates, wedding dates and inspirational messages. This beautiful, personalized jewelry is designed by artist Claudia Montez who is a mom of two young daughters and makes each piece by hand in her studio in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Prices run from $90 – $253.

This jewelry is creating quite the buzz around Hollywood. Celebrity fans of Isabelle Grace Jewelry include Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Jennifer Garner, Tori Spelling, Camila Alves, Brooke Mueller Sheen, Penelope Ann Miller, Alison Sweeney, Britney Spears, and Katherine Heigl.

If you’d like to sport one of these charm necklaces too, visit Celebrity Baby Blog and enter. Giveaway closes on 03/28/10.

I adore the smokey eye look. I’ve long coveted the eye make-up of a certain celebutant who’s name may or may not rhyme with Tim Fardashian. I may have even possibly spent time on her website…but I only read it for the pictures, I swear! Anyways, I have found that this look is really hard to recreate. At least it’s hard if you’re not aiming to look like you’ve just gone a round with Mike Tyson. Also, it’s time consuming. And unlike Tim Fardashian, I have two kids, a husband, and a laundry pile to deal with every day.

Well, enter Cover Girl. Now, thanks to their Smokey Eye Kit, this look is easy(er) and quick(er) to recreate. Tammi, over at My Organized Chaos, is giving away 4 kits. Visit My Organized Chaos and enter here.

So, the question is…

Is it really okay for me wear the smokey eye look with my daily mom uniform (yoga pants and nearest clean nursing top)? Probably not. The playground can’t handle the foxiness that is the nursingyogapantwearing smokey eye.

Sleepless nights with my son Muffin had me looking like I could join the local zoo’s raccoon exhibit. Those pesky dark circles are sure hard to cover! Although now that I’ve found make-up guru, Kandee Johnson’s Erase Dark Circles video tutorial, I may be able to fake my way to looking like a Supermom (because if a mom doesn’t look tired she must be a Supermom, right?!).

Kandee Johnson has some other really great video tutorials. A few of my favorites are: Katy Perry/Megan Fox Eyeliner and Megan Fox Flawless Skin.

Kandee Johnson is a professional make-up artist and has worked with hollywood elite and on tv and movie sets. She’s also a single mom, so support her and subscribe to her facebook profile and website.

Check out her blog here.

Tammi over at My Organized Chaos is holding a giveaway for a Germ Guardian Pluggable Air Sanitizer. So visit her site and enter to win it! My OCD, hypochondriac paranoid self wants one of those puppies!

Enter here at $5 Dinners.com. Good luck!

My Organized Chaos is a great site and the Bumbleride is a great stroller!