Do you need time?
No. I don’t have to try to squeeze too much into a day anymore, something to be grateful for. When my children were little, I got up at 5:00 am and cooked a hot breakfast while I dressed for work. I usually folded a load of clothes and put another in the washer. My daughter always wanted grits and eggs so that involved some cooking.
At 5:00, I handed off to Bud. He got the kids up, made sure they were dressed in clothes we’d put out the night before, and on the bus..
Upon arriving home, I put clothes in the dryer and another in the washer, then started dinner while Bud and I tag-teamed on homework, dinner, and baths. We usually shared family time till bedtime while I entertained myself loading the dishwasher or folding a load of clothes.
By 9:00, we were usually grateful to settle down to a cup of tea or coffee and a little evening relaxation. Of course, I put on a load of laundry on the way to bed.
No one knows what they are signing on for when starting a family. I am grateful for my family then and now. Time is relative.
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My husband always did shift work when the children were young, so when he was early shift or day off, the evenings were like a holiday as I didn’t have to do everything myself.
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Bud used to work in the oilfield. Six on, three off. The kids and I had two lives. Dad gone and Dad home. I don’t think they ever felt deprived when he was gone.
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The very thing I thought to do to skip school
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What i thought to skip school
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I loved school. That’s the only place I saw friends. We were very rural.
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Very good time management for family
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One little thing could upset the applecart!
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Yeah me thought the same
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Nice
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did you hand off to Bud at 5 or wake up at 5?
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Time is sadly a currency ???
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Life in a minivan ~ as a disabled person, too! ~ requires a complete shift in the way one relates to time. To set up ones little candle-kitchen, make a pancake, clean up afterward with no running water, and then break the kitchen down again to move the van safely takes ninety minutes. Battening down the rest of it requires at least a half hour. Every life function requires much more time than we are used to with all our conveniences. I’m both grateful to be able to go slowly, and frustrated to have to!
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What do you do during the day?
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I deal with a fair amount of physical pain, which takes energy. I read heavily in history, cultures and current world events. I meditate in several different modes. I offer poetry. These last years I’ve been running rear dogging action on an overwhelmingly active enemy ~ HUGE energy drain. I mend my old clothing, I fix my used belongings. I reach out to online friends and encourage other writers. I provide running pithy social commentary for all my hackers. When I’m feeling strong, I sing for them too. I manage food storage, study space, sleeping space, a kitchen, a wardrobe, blankets, survival gear, and mobility in a six by twelve space, and make it look like an art car (perpetually moving things out of one another’s way, perpetually putting things away). Sometimes there’s too much pain to sit up any more, and I have to lie down for a while.
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You manage remarkably well. I admire you.
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You are the person concerned enough to ask, and kind enough to offer acknowledgement. Thank you for being. 🙏
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I enjoy you company and worry when U don’t hear.
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Sistas!
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An excellent post….You are so right no one knows what they are signing up for when starting a family…..Time is our most precious commodity…:)
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It was constant hard work.
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I’m glad working days are over for me. Loved that cat video!
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Me, too! Just think. Some grandparents are raising kids.
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When our children are young we have to manage our time in order to get everything done that in our head we thought had to be done by a certain time, as we get older and our children are now parents we should find we don’t have to try and squeeze so much into a day. As older people we may look back and wonder why we thought so much needed to be done in a day but then again maybe not. Sometimes we have time on our hands and feel we have nothing to do and many do not like that they have to be doing something, I know I can be like that.
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I rarely had a free minute once I went to work. Oi am glad I was able to stay home for nine years when the children were young. We were always broke but it doesn’t matter now.
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Oh yeah we were broke most of the time back then but we had a roof over our head, food to eat and clothes on our back and most of all we were happy
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Us, too. I didn’t feel poor. We got by.
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Those were “the good old days.” Now, you have time to make new memories.
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I don’t know if they were so good. We were just putting one fit in front of the other. I felt like a joyless machine a lot.
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What a busy day-to-day. Appears to have been a well-oiled machine between you and your husband. How many children? There were five of us, and I remember the laundry going round the clock. :)
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We had two kids. Both of us were nurses. We worked opposite shifts so one would be home. It might sound well-oiled, but if one thing went wrong it fell apart!
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Two nurses! Awesome for the kids!
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It worked for our family.
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My poor mother never got it all done.
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You and Bud were the resposible type parent, not as many around as I’d like to see. If the parent is n the same room with their kids, both are on the computer or phone, that’s not family time. Love the GIF
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I loved it too. We really tried hard. Bud helped with math and science and I covered English, writing, spelling…..
Our son was the challenge. He was smart but unmotivated. He took a lot of supervision.
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Those types require watching like a dog!
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Yes, indeed.
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