Feeling a bit bored?

[playfelt]

Well, it sounds like I am lacking balance. Hard to find Balance when the days are so long but it's not impossible!

I think this is for sure the problem we have. All day we care for other people's kids and at night we still care for our kids and well a lot of hubbys are just big kids with even bigger needs. We sort of cease to exist when we do daycare because our life doesn't change. When working outside the home someone else does the daytime care for us and we have our own time. Not that we enjoy the work either but it is our time.

If you can get hubby on board or hire someone to do part of the daycare for your kids in an evening or a weekend then you can find that I am really a separate person time - even just going to the mall and trying on a new outfit that you can't imagine yourself wearing just for fun. It doesn't have to cost anything it just has to be alone or with someone not connected to your day.

A lot of caregivers take evening or weekend workshops dealing with childcare not because they care about the information but because they just want to be around other women that understand what their day was like.