Learning to do your "Pray Do's"

Sometimes, I wake up so late that I can't really spend the time with the Lord, that I would like to. I think there was a Dutch "Godmother" somewhere who showed me that when you can't get really the time with the Lord that you would like that is when you have to do your "Pray Dos". That is not at all to replace real prayer and it is real prayer. But, it is prayer while doing the necessities that you must. I did use it much more when all of the children were little. I had little prayer lists for the laundry and for the dishes. I must've bumped my head a hundred times looking at my prayer list when I should've been looking what I was doing in the kitchen. Those are some of the pitfalls of "pray doing" but it sure beats "Not pray-doing"! eh?