This is a great time of year. Busy, busy, busy! Not sure if I'm being sarcastic or not yet. Seems like there should be at least 10 to 20 extra hours a day once you have children. I spent an hour to myself yesterday...seemed like a lifetime! Now, I'm behind again. I keep trying to be supermom but my cape always seems to be on back order. Seriously, there really should be a way of cloning yourself once you get married and have children. Maybe that's why people have Assistants!!! Should we have Assistants for our children and husbands? Really, is that wise? I guess people may think that's what school & daycare is about. I don't think so. What I'm saying is how do you do it all, do it well, and actually be the one doing it? I love my kids, my husband and my career....just wish everyone could have 100% all the time. Sure, they get 100% when it's one on one, but the second one thing goes on the back burner, GUILT the other isn't getting your undivided attention. Today for instance I wanted to respond to a quick email while I was sitting outside watching my youngest daughter (9yrs old) shoot some basketballs. I think I must have been typing for 20 minutes and accomplished 3 or 4 lines! That child talked non-stop at me the entire time. (Not sure who she gets that from!!!!) Anyway, at some point I realized that there was no way the fact I was typing was going to stop this little jabberjaw, so off went the laptop, it would just have to wait I guess. :)