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At 4:45 pm today, James asked if we could do something.  Together.

It’s funny how we can both be home and hardly see each other.  It was like tag teaming today with all the things we got done.  And it’s so hard to be proper parents while having your own agenda for how you picture your day going.  The problem is that James and I sometimes become overly ambitious.  Before we had kids, we used to be like workhorses. . . we fixed up an entire house while keeping things in pristine order–there was a weekly cleaning list.  And we picked up for fifteen minutes every night before bed.  Laundry was never an issue and we had a golf membership which was well loved.  We used to cram so many things into one day.  We’ve just always been busy bodies.

And now that kids are present, it’s hard once we get into the groove with projects–because you can’t really have an agenda of your own when you have two little people around that need love, attention and present parents.  I am the kind of person where once I get going with something and I am focused. . . well, time sort of becomes a black hole.  I turn into half machine–forgetting meals and losing track of hours at a time.  Not allowed when you are parents.  Totally not allowed.  So there was a whole lot of tag teaming going on today-and in the mix, a few hours of painting, James got to work out for an hour, we did five loads of laundry and all but one are already put away and I was able to work for an hour on catching up with business stuff.  It was a good day.  But it wasn’t a family day.  So, at 4:45 tonight, James was ready to be a family again.  The paint stuff is put away.  The rest of the laundry can wait.  We have fun plans tomorrow catching up with some friends we haven’t seen in far too long.  And I will be happy to be slightly agenda-less for the rest of the day.