All parents go through something like this. I think I just need to write it down to stay on track and not get overwhelmed. I get up at 4:30am to go to work early. My wife gets the kids up and to school. I get out of work around 3pm (unless I get stuck in some issue). I go right to the pool from about 3:30pm to 4:30pm. My wife takes the little one to her practice at 6pm. I take the older one at 6:30pm for dryland and then swimming from 7-8pm.
This really is crazy.
Every weekday starts the same
Up at 5am -- coffee until 5:20
5:30 - 6:30 a swim at Y (weds I try to lift weights)
6:30 wife wakes up kids
6:45 I make breakfast for sleepy kids (and eat mine)
6:45-7:20 shave, clean kitchen, shower, get kids backpacks and lunch boxes on kids, dress, drag garbage or laundry where it is supposed to go
7:21 run kids to bus stop
Then its off to work! (i am almost always a little late)
The evenings vary between Karate drop/off pick up -- SHSAT review, rabbit care, dinner, clean up, laundry make a pile of lunches, someone has to go to the supermarket, bar mitzvah study and which child has a huge existential homework crisis. I have a plan to do a set of Core (planks and med ball and stuff) exercises with my kids in the evenings but it often doesn't happen
It always feels like I am careening downhill in a go kart without steering but it felt much worse before I added the morning swim. Anything else that goes on after that doesn't matter, I had my water time!
Every weekday starts the same
Up at 5am -- coffee until 5:20
5:30 - 6:30 a swim at Y (weds I try to lift weights)
6:30 wife wakes up kids
6:45 I make breakfast for sleepy kids (and eat mine)
6:45-7:20 shave, clean kitchen, shower, get kids backpacks and lunch boxes on kids, dress, drag garbage or laundry where it is supposed to go
7:21 run kids to bus stop
Then its off to work! (i am almost always a little late)
The evenings vary between Karate drop/off pick up -- SHSAT review, rabbit care, dinner, clean up, laundry make a pile of lunches, someone has to go to the supermarket, bar mitzvah study and which child has a huge existential homework crisis. I have a plan to do a set of Core (planks and med ball and stuff) exercises with my kids in the evenings but it often doesn't happen
It always feels like I am careening downhill in a go kart without steering but it felt much worse before I added the morning swim. Anything else that goes on after that doesn't matter, I had my water time!
