My expectations for getting things done must be too high 'cause I can never seem to get half my list done. This week, however, I need to cut myself some slack, seeing how I'm still getting over this infection. I'm doing much better, but I still have a way to go. I've been on this medicine long enough now that I should be almost 100% better and I don't feel like I'm quite there yet. Oh well, we'll see how I feel in the next 3 days or so.
I've decided the nicknames for my family members are too long. They need to have shorter nicknames so I can hurry and say what I need to say. So, Beautiful Angel (my daughter) will now be called Beauty. It's shorter and it has a nice ring to it, I think. Little Man (my son) will now be called - don't laugh - Macho. I know, I know....it's a funny name, but if you knew him, you'd know that it is PERFECT for him. He's always slapping things and grunting all the time and he is rough! He's always grabbing my face or pulling my neck. It's so funny how I used to think boys picked up those habits from other boys. Turns out, boys are BORN knowing how to grunt and make weird sounds.
My husband will be known as Husband (so original, right?), but if he's been particularly patient or sweet or whatever, I'll call him Patient Husband, or Kind Husband, or Sensitive Husband...the point is, he's always Husband either way.
Anyway, getting back to what I was originally saying, I always have so much to do and not enough time to do it in. My biggest challenge during the last month is how to get things done around my daughter's preschool schedule. To take her to school, I need to have the car, seeing how we're a one car family. My typical schedule is now as follows: Wake up @ 7 and have everyone in the car by 8 am to take Husband to work. Come back, put Macho to sleep, feed Beauty, eat breakfast. Get kids in the car and leave by 12:30 to take Beauty to school. Come back and put Macho down for another nap. Leave to pick Beauty up from school @ 3:30. Come back home for 1 hour, leave again and pick up Husband from work. We're all home again by 6 pm, at which time we all eat dinner, my son goes to sleep between 6:30 and 7, my daughter goes to bed an hour to 1 1/2 hrs later, then by that time I'm exhausted and I need a nap!
The biggest block of time I have to do anything is in the morning, but since Macho still naps until 10:30, that eats away a lot of time. I can't do anything while he's napping 'cause he's an extremely light sleeper. I normally stay downstairs with Beauty until he wakes up. So really, I only have 2 hours to get everything done. My next biggest obstacle is getting the energy to do what needs doing. Some days I'm so tired and achy that it's hard enough just to play with the kids. It's a challenge, but I know everyone has challenges and these are mine and I just have to figure out a way around them.
So, how do you "find the time" to do your chores?
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