First Night

I'm working through things in my head -- lots of things. How to balance work with kids? How to balance cleaning with playing? How to balance chaos of stuff with everyday living? And how to do the most for my kids while maintaining my work and my sanity?

I want my son to be able to take swimming. At 2 he was diving so I want to encourage it without taking the fun out of it. I want my daughter to be able to take something. Her choices are ballet, gymnastics, "artor" and football (who knows where this one came from.) We live in the middle of nowhere and the offerings are slim at best. So that means I'm going to have to commute at least 45-1 hour to get them into decent programs. How do I work that with work? On the other hand, when we are home, which is going to be most of the time *crossing fingers how do I balance giving them attention and working?

Now to all this which I've been debating for several weeks now, I'm going to add some dedicated time for me. Not just play time for scrapbooking, but time to really pray and read and study again. I think in the end this is the most important, but it still has to balance with everything else. So my task this weekend is to do some research on other moms who work from home raise their kids -- single moms would be great, but my thought is that they are scarce.

Tomorrow has been put aside for fun. My friend Tracy and her daughter Hannah will be coming over for a playdate. Not only with the kiddos be playing, but us girls will be too -- scrapbooking here we come. I'm so excited. I'm going to now try to get the house ready for visitors as we don't have many of those and I tend to let things pile up. I did get all the laundry done and put away today though -- go me!