It has been over two weeks since I wrote in my blog! I started this blog with such good intentions, I just have so many things on my never ending to do list that blogging keeps getting pushed to the bottom. Which actually brings me to the point of this post. We've all heard the saying: Two wrongs don't make a right. Well, I've come up with a new saying: Too many rights can make a wrong. Let me explain. I have a teaching credential and a license as a speech therapist. I could have a job but a long time ago, Eric and I decided that my skills, time and effort would be better spend at home, spending time with our boys and being actively involved in their school and extra curricular activities. So, I'm a stay-at-home mom. What I've found, though, is that over the years I continually take on more "jobs" and have less and less time to actually spend with my boys. Right now I am on the PTA board, I am the hospitality chair for the PTA, I am room mom for two classes, I volunteer each week in both classes, I am a den leader, cub scout treasurer, as well as cub scout membership and registration coordinator. I am doing all of the right things, but I am doing so many of them that It's actually turned into the wrong thing for my kids. I am doing so many things FOR my boys that I never actually have time to spend WITH my boys. My time is spent creating lessons and den activities for the cub scouts, going to the scout store to buy belt loops and arrow points, volunteering backstage at the rehearsals and performances of the school variety show, coordinating volunteers for the school carnival, writing and requesting donations for the raffle baskets, buying items for the baskets, creating the baskets, requesting food for teacher appreciation luncheon, buying drinks and paper goods for said luncheon, putting the luncheon together, coordinating gifts and treats for teacher appreciation week, coordinating volunteers for the fourth grade fiesta, buying sombreros and tablecloths for the fiesta, planning field trips, on and on and on...I think you get the idea. All of these things are good and need to be done...but they don't all need to be done by me. When my boys get home from school, I'm still working on other projects as well as trying to do the regular household stuff like laundry, dinner and cleaning. So, everything I've taken on and everything I'm doing in the name of being a "good stay-at-home mom" has sort of backfired on me. Because (1) I rarely stay at home and (2) I'm not being much of a mom.
So, I have vowed to not take on as much during the next school year and I've tasked those around me to hold me to my word. Yes, I will still be involved in my boy's school and after school activities but when they come home from school I want to be able to spend that time WITH them not just do things FOR them.
In my life, I want to make two things right and their names are John and Robert. I don't want to spend all of my time doing all of the good and right things only to find, one day, that I've lost my time with them.
Never ceases to amaze me how so many of our once kooky/krazy friends from younger days become such wonderful human beings as life progresses ... and you are most DEFINITELY one of those wonderful human beings, Temre. Wonderful thoughts and feelings in this entry (as usual) - TOM C.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tom! I love the compliment but my favorite part of your comment is that I used to be kooky and krazy! We were all a bit kooky but we sure had fun!
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