As Adam and I were headed home from his parent's place last night after being there to celebrate Brad's birthday with the family he commented that he didn't know where the weekend had gone. I had to agree. It seems like we didn't do much but yet the weekend was gone already. And I keep finding myself saying or thinking about how quickly time is going. I mean it is still hard for me to believe that Gideon is over four months old. In some ways it seems like just yesterday.
I've been trying hard to work on taking time to enjoy my family and friends and making that more important than other things. I think I'm getting better at it but it still seems like I'm just going through the motions some days. The weekdays especially seem that way to me and maybe it has something to do with being gone from the house for 11 hours everyday. And then I find myself sitting at lunch either working through it (yet still not leaving any earlier or arriving any later) or wishing I had a way to get something I need to do at home done. I guess I'm struggling to find a productive use of my lunch hour. I've tried exercising a few times but when I have meetings on both sides of lunch that is really tough to do. Although I think I need to not give up quite so easily. I just can't seem to find the motivation. The other thing I've thought of is finding a way to do things like making a menu and grocery list but that too hasn't happened. I'm working on trying to create an "office in a bag" like FlyLady talks about so that maybe I can use some time at lunch to do some of the "paperwork" type things that I would need to do at home so I can instead spend the time at home doing other small household things and freeing up time to spend with my family and friends or participating in a relaxing activity for me.
Well I need to go lunch is almost over and I need to head to a meeting. If anyone who reads this out there has any suggestions on how to balance the different pieces of life or wants to share how they do it I'd be interested to hear. Until next time.
Heather