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Free Time -- or lack of.
I was gone the last week and a half -- hence my lack of postings here. We left the Friday of Memorial Day weekend to go camping, came home Monday. I unpacked, cleaned, and then re-packed to leave Tues. for a conference. Came home Thursday night to unpack and re-pack to leave on Fri. for the coast. Came home yesterday with a full schedule, another today, another tomorrow, baby-sitting and errand-running on Thurs., and we're headed back to the coast on Friday. WHEW!
I quit working when my first son was born because I wanted to do the stay-at-home-mom thing. Promised myself I'd go back to work when they started school. But then I got involved in PTA and Little League and found I didn't have time to work. Luckily the monetary issue was not much of an issue. After the boys graduated high school, I wondered what I'd do with myself and envisioned many boring hours. Considered going back to work, and did go back part-time. Then 10 years ago, Master Gardeners came along. Five years ago I decided to try the writing thing. Last year I took on the presidential duties for Master Gardeners. Almost three months ago I became a grandma. In one week I become a care-giver for said grandson 3 days a week.
And now I find my time taken up with meetings, plannings, agendas, baby-sitting, errand-running, a little housekeeping, and very little else, especially writing. ARRRRGGGHHHH!
Sometimes I get over-whelmed and think I should just throw in the writing-towel. Ok, this is going to turn into a whine when I didn't mean for it to be. I meant for it to be a chat about the important job of child-rearing and how time-consuming it is. A full-time caregiver is always on call and rarely gets time off because it's not *really* a job, you know. (You'll never hear a full-time caregiver spouting that nonsense!)
Well I must have had a point but it wandered away from me. I'm feeling over-whelmed, although I have gotten a few things finished that have been hanging over my head for way too long. But still so far to go.
I was gone the last week and a half -- hence my lack of postings here. We left the Friday of Memorial Day weekend to go camping, came home Monday. I unpacked, cleaned, and then re-packed to leave Tues. for a conference. Came home Thursday night to unpack and re-pack to leave on Fri. for the coast. Came home yesterday with a full schedule, another today, another tomorrow, baby-sitting and errand-running on Thurs., and we're headed back to the coast on Friday. WHEW!
I quit working when my first son was born because I wanted to do the stay-at-home-mom thing. Promised myself I'd go back to work when they started school. But then I got involved in PTA and Little League and found I didn't have time to work. Luckily the monetary issue was not much of an issue. After the boys graduated high school, I wondered what I'd do with myself and envisioned many boring hours. Considered going back to work, and did go back part-time. Then 10 years ago, Master Gardeners came along. Five years ago I decided to try the writing thing. Last year I took on the presidential duties for Master Gardeners. Almost three months ago I became a grandma. In one week I become a care-giver for said grandson 3 days a week.
And now I find my time taken up with meetings, plannings, agendas, baby-sitting, errand-running, a little housekeeping, and very little else, especially writing. ARRRRGGGHHHH!
Sometimes I get over-whelmed and think I should just throw in the writing-towel. Ok, this is going to turn into a whine when I didn't mean for it to be. I meant for it to be a chat about the important job of child-rearing and how time-consuming it is. A full-time caregiver is always on call and rarely gets time off because it's not *really* a job, you know. (You'll never hear a full-time caregiver spouting that nonsense!)
Well I must have had a point but it wandered away from me. I'm feeling over-whelmed, although I have gotten a few things finished that have been hanging over my head for way too long. But still so far to go.
