De-Busy-Fy Me, Please
I have spent the last several months moaning about how over-scheduled we are. I weep and groan about having to drag poor Lili out to swimming and gymnastics and whatever else happens to be the obsessed-about activity of the month. My children don't want to give anything up, but they long for down time. They put off bedtime so that they can have time to chat and argue with each other and just "be" children, unscheduled children. Then they are tired in the morning. Sometimes, as hard as this is to believe, they are grumpy and mouthy to their sweet mama because they are so tired. I think there has to be a better balance. I don't want to live like this anymore, and I am the grown up, remember? I am the grown-up who happened to completely forget about the fact that I had registered and paid for my two older girls to participate in a gymnastics meet on Saturday. I am sure the meet happened without us, but we didn't even give it a thought...