Hi Erika,
I had a smile at this blog. I too have been in your situation, three kids, endless after school activities, till one day I just told the boys that karate school was cancelleed (it wasn’t) and I bought a box of chocolates and watched TV. I was simply exhausted.

PHurley,

Thanks so much for writing in and commenting on my post. I don’t write a Christmas letter, don’t quilt, don’t scrapbook. I work out of my home several hours a week and have part-time job responsibilities in two places outside of the home that happen to be on a flexible schedule. I am sometimes called out in the middle of the night for one job and I regularly miss supper one night a week for the other. And right now, I take care of my kids full-time at home during the summer hours, shuffling them to whatever they need to do.

I have been a mom working full time hours several years ago, and I do appreciate your perspective. And in a couple of months when all my children will be in school, I will be stepping up my entrepreneurial work-from-home hours. I have several career goals I am working on, and I will have the chance to put much more time into them.

Everyone has stress, either put upon them or manufactured by themselves. That’s the point of this post, to address some of the self-made schedule problems that affect parents and kids today.

Again, thanks for writing in.