nidukuri wo site bakari iru to, hoka no zyunbi ga susumanai node, tetyou de zyunban wo kakuninsimasita.

It uses the pattern V-てばかりいる.

This pattern means:

• to keep doing V
• to do nothing but V
• to spend all one’s time doing V

So 荷造りをしてばかりいる means something like:

• to keep packing all the time
• to do nothing but pack

The idea is not just that packing is happening, but that it is happening so much that other things are being neglected.

Because this grammar pattern is verb in て-form + ばかりいる.

So:

• する → して
• してばかりいる

If you say するばかり, that is a different pattern and can mean something like:

• all that remains is to do it
• or, in some contexts, be about to do

So here, してばかりいる is the correct form for keep doing nothing but doing.

No. That is a different use of ばかり.

Compare:

• V-たばかり = just did V
• V-てばかりいる = keep doing nothing but V

So in this sentence, ばかり does not mean just packed. It means packing over and over / packing all the time.

Usually, yes, at least a little.

V-てばかりいる often suggests:

• the action is excessive
• the person is too focused on one thing
• other things are not getting attention

So here, the speaker is implying that only packing is a problem, because other preparations are not progressing.

It is not extremely harsh, but it does have a mild complaint / concern / imbalance nuance.

Here と is a conditional, meaning if / when.

So:

• 荷造りをしてばかりいると、ほかの準備が進まない
• If I keep doing nothing but packing, the other preparations won’t make progress

This と is often used when the second part is a:

• natural result
• predictable consequence
• general truth

That fits this sentence well: focusing only on packing naturally leads to other preparations not moving forward.

Because と fits a natural consequence especially well.

Very roughly:

• と = when/if A happens, B naturally follows
• たら = if/when A happens, then B; often more flexible and event-based
• なら = if it is the case that A / if you mean A

In this sentence, the speaker is expressing a kind of predictable result:

• If I keep only packing, other preparations won’t progress

That makes と sound very natural.

Because 進む is an intransitive verb.

That means the thing that progresses is marked as the subject:

• 準備が進む = the preparations progress

So:

• ほかの準備が進まない = the other preparations do not progress

If you wanted to use を, you would normally need the transitive verb 進める:

• ほかの準備を進めない
• not move the other preparations forward

Both are possible in Japanese, but this sentence uses the intransitive version.

Literally, it means does not progress.

But in natural English, depending on context, you might translate it as:

• won’t make progress
• won’t move forward
• won’t get done
• can’t get anywhere

So the meaning is that the other preparations are being left behind.

ので means because / since.

Here it gives the reason for the speaker’s action:

• ほかの準備が進まないので、手帳で順番を確認しました
• Because the other preparations were not going to make progress, I checked the order in my planner

Compared with から, ので often sounds:

• softer
• more explanatory
• slightly more objective

So it fits well in a sentence where the speaker is calmly explaining why they did something.

Because で marks the means / tool / medium used for the action.

So:

• 手帳で順番を確認しました
• I checked the order using my planner/notebook
• I checked the order in my planner

If you said 手帳を確認しました, that would mean:

• I checked the planner itself

That shifts the focus. In this sentence, the planner is the thing used to confirm the order, so で is natural.

Here 順番 means the order or sequence of what should be done.

So the speaker checked:

• what to do first
• what to do next
• the proper order of the preparations

It is about sequence, not necessarily strict priority. If the sentence wanted to emphasize priority, Japanese might use 優先順位 instead.

Because 確認しました is the main action the speaker actually took, and it happened in the past.

• 手帳で順番を確認しました = I checked the order in my planner

But 進まない appears inside a conditional/reason structure:

• してばかりいると、ほかの準備が進まない
• if I keep doing nothing but packing, the other preparations won’t progress

That part expresses a general or expected consequence, so non-past is normal there.

So the timeline is basically:

1. The speaker realizes that if they keep only packing, other preparations will not move forward.
2. Because of that, they checked the order in their planner.

The subject is omitted, which is very common in Japanese.

From context, the understood subject is probably the speaker, so in English we would usually supply I:

• If I keep doing nothing but packing, the other preparations won’t progress, so I checked the order in my planner.

Japanese often leaves out words like I, you, or we when they are clear from context.

A helpful way to break it up is:

• 荷造りをしてばかりいると
  if I keep doing nothing but packing
• ほかの準備が進まないので
  because the other preparations won’t make progress
• 手帳で順番を確認しました
  I checked the order in my planner

So the logic is:

• Doing only packing leads to
• other tasks not progressing
• so
• the speaker checks the proper order of tasks