Can someone please (pretty please, with a cherry on top) tell me how you do "it"? Hey...you with the dirty mind....get your head out of the gutter... by "it", I mean balance the work/life thingy, as a Mom.
I only have one kid. I only have one house. I only have one dog, one husband, one volunteer job, and one paying job. I also only have one mind, and right now I'm losin' it. Somehow, with all these "ones," I can't manage to keep up with it all. I used to be able to handle a high-powered, stressful job, working 60-70 hours a week...I always had my act together. But now? Most of the time I am good, but sometimes I am fail the Super Hero Mom act big time!
I see other Moms who always seem to have their act together, even with two/five/ten kids. People, like my friend Wendy. She has six boys under the age of 18 (who go to different schools, and each play sports), two jobs, and is finishing her college degree! Even better? She always has a smile on her face. I want to hate her for being so "together" all the time, but she's so sweet and kind, I just want her to adopt me for the day. Then there's my friend Christy. She has six kids, two under the age of six, a successful blog, plus does consulting for a PR firm. She always has a clean house, and is thoughtful about keeping up with other bloggers, and her friends. She is a lady who has her "stuff" together. She is someone to be respected and admired, and yet all I think about is how much cleaner her house is than mine.
What is wrong with me? I only get about 4-5 hours a sleep a night, so I honestly do try to get everything done, and keep my head above water, yet somehow I'm still drowning... Don't get me wrong...I love my life, my family, my sons school, his teachers, the other volunteers, my blog, you readers. I just need a little "me" time every now and then, and there is no time for that!
Am I getting old? (Don't answer that.) Am I just a whiner? (Don't answer that.) Am I a pushover? All of the above?
So this is my week...My kid is annoyed at me for making him get braces. I am a week behind in my work, and quickly moving toward two weeks behind. The stuff I was supposed to get done for the school fundraiser (I am chairing) did not get done (not that I didn't beg for it to get done). Even my dog won't sit next to me anymore, because I don't have time to play with him. I wanted to take a class this semester, to get that infernal degree done, but it looks like it is not going to happen. My house looks like a marching band trounced through it...three times...in cleats....while eating cookies... shedding large dust bunnies...and buckets of leaves. I am being pulled in a million different directions, yet can't seem to muster the strength to say NO to anyone or anything, so the work piles up even more.
I would drink heavily, but I think the vodka bottle is trapped behind all my paperwork. Time for me to suck it up. My birthday is next week, as is the Super Bowl, and our anniversary. I have taxes to do, chili to make, a jail to build (don't ask), blog posts to write, church to attend, laundry to wash, floors to vacuum, paperwork to fill out, a fundraiser to organize, a kid to take back and forth to school, back and forth home, back and forth to RE classes, back and forth to the orthodontist, a blog to redesign, volunteer work to do at the school office....on second thought, where is that bottle of vodka???
How do you do "it'?
