Never Enough Time

Kristin has more toys than most kids she knows, yet they will still fight over a doll the size of her thumb. They've destroyed the garden, trash the house daily, fight, play, fight, play. Every other day, I try to take them somewhere, just to get them out of the house, it's all a full job, but I think the hardest thing of all, in regards to running a family, is losing time.

The battles have gotten easier to deal with, now that I'm getting experience at it. It's just that it takes so much time to run a family, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to go find more work/clients, when I can't even get all the work I have to do already, done in any given day.

I try to get the house cleaned up by 8:00 a.m. so that I won't have to spend any daytime doing housework (never succeeded yet). I am trying to spend the daytime drumming up more work. Once school is out, I'm not sure how I'm going to continue doing that.

Meals can still be haphazard based on what inventory I have, and I'm trying to come up with a system that includes good meals, yet something I know picky eaters will eat. It's time consuming. The cost of food rising is forcing us to try and grow more vegetables and I need to try to go back to making my own breads, and things from scratch since it is cheaper than buying stuff already made. It's so time consuming.

Rising gas prices require me to drive less, so when we go to the park, I will pull them in the wagon. It took 3 minutes to drive to the park, it takes about 15 to walk. That's 30 minutes extra lost every time we go to the park. That 30 minutes has to come from somewhere.

My daily to-do list runs anywhere from 20-28 things per day. I am lucky if I accomplish 5-8.

There has to be a better way to organize my day. Sometimes I think I over organize/schedule, but I get absolutely nothing done if I just wing it.