February 29

Today I: Prepared and took the kids to school, wrote the tenth page of my novel, worked, picked Christina up from school, later returned to pick Robin up from school, made dinner, did four loads of laundry, including folding and putting it away, and refilled my medicine trays. Today was an easy day because I didn’t also have to take Christina to dance class or drive anyone home from cheer. I don’t mind doing this stuff, but there is a definite lack of time for myself in all of this. I get so excited about and caught up in what my kids are doing that I sign them up for everything and forget that I then have to take them to said activities. I am going to have to be choosier next year and try to remember that my needs count too. Cheer ends in April (they got a bid to the world championships!) and dance in early June, and then we reset. I’m so buried in other people’s schedules that I don’t even know what I’d do for myself with the opportunity. It’d be nice to have that problem for a change.