Settling

I am so frustrated. My group met on Monday, and I was able to meet just fine while I was at the library in Spartanburg. We also met yesterday afternoon. I was quite distracted during our last meeting because I had to meet while supervising my children. With 5 small kids, some of them very dependent on me, it was hard for me to participate in the group discussion. Our group members seem pretty willing to work, are capable, and are interested in completing the project, but one member met only once--that was yesterday. We had divided up tasks and decided to do an edublog, at the suggestion of one of our tech people. She said it was a very easy format, similar to a web page but would be easy for people to upload content from their respective points. I agreed, because I thought some of the other things we were considering were a little limited. I wanted to be able to include visual elements and graphics as well as video. I briefly looked at voice thread and glogster, but my concern was that I didn't think you could do video on them. Apparently, no one in our group knew much about them either, so we all just went with this simple format that I find completely boring. Everyone has wanted to work quickly to decide how to divide things, work on it on our own and put it together like a puzzle. The problem I see is that our puzzle isn't interesting to look at, much less read all the text we've included. At the beginning of our group-work, I'll admit that I didn't devote a great deal of time researching the possible options for format because I had a lot of work to complete for another class and I was suffocating from the workload at home, at church, at school. I think our final product will be ok but not the wow factor that I was hoping for. What would I do differently? --communicate these concerns with my group early in the process, research more in the beginning, and communicate expectations up front. I am not a person that likes to "make do" with what I feel to be minimal effort. So now, I am struggling to reconcile my time spent on the various areas of my life. It seems like everything isn't working out like I want. Everything I value is suffering. So do I learn to settle for less? Where do I spend my priorities? That is the question I must ask myself. I already know what is important to me but I don't think it is humanly possible for me to get it all done well.