Showing posts with label mommyhood. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

how do mothers accomplish ANYTHING?

OK, so I had a beautifully empty day on my calendar. I envisioned myself working out, doing meaningful special together-time projects with the kids, cooking something that doesn't involve following directions on a box, learning my Bach, and re-styling Eleanor's hair, which is getting fuzzy and dilapidated (don't want to be the bad white mama now!) And now it's 9:30, I'm exhausted, and I can't figure out what I did all day. So I'm trying to estimate:

Getting dressed and ready to go: 5 minutes
Cooking/cleanup/dishes/feeding children: about 2.5 hours total
feeding/changing/actively playing with baby: about 2 hours
Workout at gym: 1 hour
jogging to/from gym with kids: 1 hour
shower: 20 minutes
working on "school" type stuff with kids: 45 minutes
trying unsuccessfully to get violinist to focus: 30 minutes
gardening/seed planting project with kids: 20 minutes
Adoption paperwork: 30 minutes
working on CBS study: 30 minutes
braiding Eleanor's hair: 2 hours
writing down what I ate: 15 minutes
breaking up fights/arbitrating/sending kids to time out: 45 minutes
blogging: 10 minutes

reading: zero
watching TV: zero
playing video games: zero
working on thesis: zero
laundry: zero
cleaning bathrooms: zero
learning my music for rehearsal Friday: zero

That adds up to about 13 hours I think, and I've been awake since 7:30, so we're missing an hour in there somewhere. Maybe that's my problem: the missing hour. Actually, that probably involved answering emails, taking a few phone calls, and politely telling the two Mormon "elders" that I was too busy to chat. Is waking up earlier really my only option for clean clothes, clean bathrooms, finishing my degree, and not getting fired from my music gigs?