Juggling It All
As moms, you do a lot of juggling. As a work at home mom, you juggle more. As a work at home mom, work outside the home mom, and volunteer mom, you juggle even more.
And sometimes it seems that there is just too much to juggle and something has got to give.
Something simple, like adding in the gym a few nights a week has really made a change in our schedule. I want to go to the gym, I do not spend more than 1 hour there, and it is within 10 minutes of my house. At the most, that is 1 1/2 hours (and don't tell me to go at the crack of dawn, because believe it or not, I could not get there and back and get myself and the kids ready in the remaining time- I am a teacher! I have very early mornings!).
So now I have to balance and subtract my activities. But what goes? Everything has a purpose and reason. I feel like I should do most of the things. And if given a choice, the gym would go! But it cannot go unless I am going to be 50 pounds overweight!
My husband is not used to having a work outside the home wife, and I am not used to being a work outside the home wife. We are constantly balancing and juggling, adding and subtracting.
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2 comments:
Rebekah, you're absolutely right about adding, subtracting, and the constant juggling. I've been a stay-at-home-mom, a work-at-home-mom, and a work-outside-of-the-home mom. Each situation is crazy is in its own way.
I've been a mom for 14 years and I've learned that everything is only for a time (although it sure doesn't feel like it at the time!). If I do have to let go of something - it's not forever, it's just for now.
Now that I have teenagers, I'm able to do things that would have been impossible a few years ago, and I've had to let other things go.
Thanks so much Denise for those words of encouragement. My sister has said that too- it is just a short time! I so need to remember that!
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