Sunday, October 02, 2011

All that free time they said I would have...

All last year and this summer people asked me what I would do with my days when school started and all the kids were at school all day long...

I told them I was just going to wait and see what time I had extra throughout the day.

What I've realized is that my day is more free for scheduling things.  I don't have to schedule around the mid-day pick up that I had done for the last four years between two kids going through pre-k and kindergarten.

What I've also realized is that even though my day is more free for scheduling things- I am just as busy or more busy than I was last year at this time.  I find myself at the school more volunteering...  taking my time at the store instead of rushing through shopping... and trying to increase my exercise time and intensity.

The laundry pile is still always big,  the bathrooms are still always there needing to be cleaned,  and the kitchen floor is still almost always in need of mopping...

I haven't blogged more often like I thought I would.
I haven't baked homemade bread on a regular basis.
I haven't dived into digi scrapping with all of my "free-time"
I haven't cleaned out closets and drawers and organized the whole house...

Those things will come in time, but right now I'm finding myself plenty busy. :)

This month will continue the busy trend.  Yesterday and Today is General Conference.  Today is Rich and I's Anniversary, the rest of this month holds campouts, birthday parties, end of the term tests, new clarinet and tuba lessons, a buisness trip, a family vacation, dentist and dr routine appointments (not to mention the inevitable non routine apt's that I'm sure will get scheduled) Fall festival parties at school and at church, and Halloween to end the month.

I'm going to try and blog more often.  I miss it when I don't get on here and blog and record what we are doing as a family...

1 comment:

Jill Freestone said...

Amen - definitely busier, but in a different way. I definitely like this busy though - compared to the baby busy times :)