When Did I Become a Soccer Mom?

Today apparently.

So, I was telling Wendy today as we entered our first Girl Scout leaders' meeting, I was completely supermom today. I literally, attended her first religion class/parents meeting, went to mass, made lunches, did nap for an hour...THANKFULLY! and then took Autumn to travel soccer try-outs, followed immediately upon getting home by putting a chicken in the oven and then rushing out the door to go to my first girl scout leader meeting in Endwell. Then I came home, ate dinner, gave Abbie a bath, read to her and put her to bed, while also encouraging Autumn to finish her homework reading. Then I tucked Autumn into bed and helped her pick out an outfit for tomorrow....very important these days ya know. It seemed crazy and I thought, how did this happen? I wonder how I'm going to schedule Girl Scout meetings as I won't know if when Autumn's soccer practices are. She has dance on Mondays, Tuesdays are out as I already have a MAJOR conflict with Kevin's new ministry courses which are also on Tuesday nights and my requirement to attend NCC. Wednesdays won't probably work for Wendy as she has a crazy day at work followed by staff meeting. This leaves Thursday and I can only hope that soccer practice then is either on Wednesday or Friday nights. What madness!

Somewhere amidst all of this, I need to find time to work out. I really, really feel so much more sluggish these days and I'm positive my slacking off of workouts is to blame. Thank goodness tomorrow in my FYE class is just their presentations because I'm not sure I can pull myself together for it. Though I do enjoy teaching class only once a week for an hour; much, MUCH more manageable if you ask me.

Now Kevin might not be going on his business trip because of some health issues that are cropping up. I'm not going to lie; I'm a bit freaked out by it, but also trying to stay low-key for his sake. I can only hope its managable; whatever it may be. These are the times when I think; really? Is this all worth it? The madness of pushing it to the extreme at work and home. Its just so different these days than when I was a kid. Activities are so much more structured. In some ways, its so refreshing to watch Abbie just play at her age; the new thing is pretending almost anything is a car she is driving; at least she makes up buckle up :) She's so free in that way.

It makes me think somtimes of how manic life can be; literally, we just go from one activity to the next; which is why finding time to work out stresses me out. I wish I could be more of an early sleeper like Kevin, then maybe I could work out in the morning. I just think, I need these days to work straight through until 5pm to get work done. By the time I get home its 5:30pm and then there's dinner to make, homework to do, baths to take and the addition of some extra-curricular activity on, by November, 3 nights. Add to that Kevin taking these courses on Tuesdays, my having to go back into the office at least 3 times extra a month, plus weekend obligations at work, and gymnastics and soon soccer on Saturdays; its like, when is family time?

I think I agree with my friend Cindy when she says balance doesn't exisit; I really don't think it does. I think you just continuously juggle and switch up your priority for the moment and somehow make it work.

Well, I'm off to chill out for 30 minutes or so, and then try to go to bed for 11pm. Yes, that's my goal; which will give me 6 hours sleep if I get up at 5:30am to work out...which may be a long shot, but we'll see. G'nite!