I see it all the time. There's work, house work, husband/boyfriend maintenance, family obligations, the list goes on and on. Why is it that a man can come home from work and sit down to watch TV but a woman, come home from work and start dinner or put a load of laundry in, or return that call from her sister etc. Granted not all men are like this and many will equally help around the house but they will sit down first and watch TV, then put that load of laundry in. Why is it that we woman feel like this stuff is so urgent it cant wait 1/2 hour while we relax. Because we feel like we are not being efficient. I wonder if it's generic.
Sometimes though is more a matter of too much effort. Take me for example, I love to scrapbook, but I seldom have the time to do it. I have 6 children and I am still working on the first two children pictures....I have gotten as far as their elementary school years...they are 21 and 19 now! I have maybe one page done of my third child (who is almost 10) and boxes of pictures in storage in my precious plastic container in the entertainment center cabinet. Of course I have tons of digital pictures too, of all my subsequent children, that I mean to keep making into videos etc..
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Well it takes a lot of time. I have to get all my scrapbook materials out (and I have accumulated quite a bit in the pretense that I will be working on it soon) get the pictures I want to use, spread everything on a table. Of course through this there will be children asking for my attention, people getting hungry, phone ringing...you get the picture. If I get up to attend to this things many different disasters can occur to my scrap booking setting...by the time I am done attending to other matters I have to clear the table and put everything away and not one page is done. So you see most times I feel like "why bother".
So you are probably wondering how do I have time to blog...Ahhhhhhh well this is an activity that stays cleanly contained inside the computer. All it takes is the keyboard and my brain. It can be interrupted a hundred thousands time without a mayor disaster, like being scattered all over the room, getting cut into "pretty" shapes by my artistic 5 and 4 yrs. old, or eaten up by the baby. Thanks to that great technology thing called, "save as draft". And of course children eventually go to sleep and so do husbands/boyfriends! lol
I wrote this piece in 2007, I am now a single mother with more children than when I originally wrote it, so I had to edit ages and add children. The point is, is still current in any other way except for what I just stated….so where is that me time? I still haven’t been able to figure that one out but I have seen glimpses of it, I know is out there somewhere. So parents, for your own sanity and the benefit of you children, do not give up in the search. Is in there somewhere, so make sure you always look for it and if you are lucky enough, you will have those small capsules in time to just do what you love or sit down and relax!
