Making time (for real)
I didn’t have a ton of friends in high school, but I had some pretty awesome ones. My best friend from high school, in fact, is also pretty tight with my mom—and her mom loves me. (I love her, too, of course.) My friend’s mom regularly inquires after my wellbeing (awww).
Saturday night at a church activity after one such inquiry, my friend, her mom and my mom were talking about . . . well, me. My friend told my mother, “I don’t know how she does all that she does!”
My mother was like “… Really?” (Remember, these lovely women live 2000 miles away.)
When my mother related the story to me, I told my mom, “Oh, she sees how much I write. She doesn’t see what my house looks like!”
(A side note: according to a survey of 7000 moms by AOL’s Platform-A and OMD, the average mom fits the equivalent of 27 hours of activities into a 16-hour day. Only 1.4 of those hours are “personal time,” of course. The one thing I question about this study: who gets eight hours of sleep?!)
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I wonder who this mysterious friend is? Seriously though, I think you’re amazing and I have no idea how you do it all.
September 30th, 2008 at 1:12 pmOh, stop!
(No, don’t really.)
September 30th, 2008 at 1:47 pmI feel like I fit in 40 hrs. of activities every day. And no, that doesn’t include sleep.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:17 pmFunny you asked. I also wonder who gets 8 hours of sleep because my average right now is 4 to 5 (6 on good days). I did an informal survey, here’s what I found out:
http://www.lizas-eyeview.com/2008/09/aloha-friday-sleep.html
I had been looking around your blog and learning. Thank you for such a helpful blog. I will add you to my blogroll.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:54 amI definitely don’t get eight hours of sleep since I had my baby, but I am dreaming of getting a full night’s sleep one day.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:06 am