24 Hours In a Day

Sometimes I feel like my life's sole purpose is to complete the mundane tasks of cleaning, washing clothes, cooking supper and driving back and forth to work. This morning I got up and washed dog toys that got left out the rain yesterday and then started making a grocery list containing a carefully thought out meal plan for the week. I figured out that the best way to buy groceries is to make a list of meals for the week and purchase items based on what I need to fix those meals. I feel like such a loser everytime I sit down to do one of those "meal plans". It's almost like I'm planning out the meals for a whole slew of us when in actuality it is just me and the hubby. I got all of the washing done yesterday and folded and put up the last load this morning. I still have to go to the grocery store and cook dinner. I'm sure I'll vacuum again before I go to bed tonight and probably start the dishwasher. Seriously...I sit around and think about what I can do next. There is a neverending list of things to be done when you are a homeowner, a wife, a dog-owner and a working girl. I'd like just one more summer to lay in bed until noon, get up only to have an afternoon filled with watching t.v. and a night filled with making "the loop" from McDonald's to the Chevron (which is now Eagle). It amazes me that there are a lot of my friends that have added children to the mix. When do they have the time to get anything done? My mom and I had a conversation one time about looking back and wondering how you got through a certain time in your life. You just do it. For instance, this time last year I was finishing up my next to last semester of school and had just started a new job. How did I hold it together? I feel overwhelmed most days as it is. She said that you just adjust to what you know you have to get done from day to day. I think the house is much cleaner since I've graduated. And the hubby probably gets a few more meals. I'm sure he appreciates that. Don't worry...if you free up some of the time you have you'll just find something to replace it. You'll pick up a new hobby or think of something that you now have time to do. It's neverending and the Good Book does say that idle hand are the devils handywork...or something to that effect. I don't try to stay so busy. I'm probably the most selfish person that I know when it comes to my time. If you are one of my close friends you can attest to that. It's not that I don't have time to be a good wife, daughter, granddaughter, sister, daughter-in-law, friend or employee its just that I have to spread the love and it takes a while.