As my life slowly regains some normalcy, it has occurred to me that life with two small children, at least for me at this stage, feels much like a crazy quilt in terms of time management. I never know what the scraps of time will look like on a given day, though the general goal is to piece them together in a way that makes sure we get food on the table, have some order in the household, and that we are dressed and decently clean. Getting outdoors by myself with the two boys felt impossible in the first weeks, but today I was actually able to take Eli to a park (w/Dylan sleeping, thankfully), and we enjoyed some of the unexpected 75 degree November weather.
I would write more, but I still haven’t gotten used to the time change, so I’m going to try to get the dishes done tonight before I go to bed. Even though the rest of America gained an extra hour yesterday, what it meant for us is that Eli now wakes up at 6:20 am instead of 7:20. But I did want to take one of the last few scraps of time today to check in on my blog – I haven’t disappeared entirely, but as you can see, it’s been harder to get time to piece together some coherent thoughts :).
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November 4, 2009 at 11:45 am
bless you, you are doing a good job! I like the crazy quilt analogy. Now that my “baby” is 18 months, I realize I have gotten very good at efficiently using those scraps of time. I’m always ready to do something in 5 minutes time!