Balancing Act

[LTLY]

I am clumsy and prone to accidents, even as an adult. I have fallen in perfeclty level parking lots, ran into solid walls, unexplainably ended up with severe ligament/tendon/bone damage, even broken ribs due to caughing. Recently, I tripped over thin air while holding my baby girl. Thankfully, her head never hit the floor, but I looked like I had been beat with a bat for a while. Obviously I have a problem with coordination and balance. Well, actually the balance part overflows into other parts of my life. Like balancing kids, household chores, me time, church, family, keeping in touch with friends, and the list just goes on and on. I need to figure this out especially now that my husband has been gone for 12 days in BC. Before he left we made sure our home and our relationship were in smooth working order. So I thought, how hard could it be to maintain? Yeah! Right! Now that I have alloted myself the minimum amount of time sobbing uncontrolably, not getting out of bed unless it was to take care of the kids, eating as much chocolate as possible, and not putting on an ounce of makeup, wait...did I even shower those days? As I was saying, now that all that is over, I have to figure out a way to balance our life. After all, this is just the first of many times I will be seperated from my husband.

Don't call me Grace just yet...but I am determined to catch my balance!

[SailorsSweetheart]

The first part made me laugh a bit, not the you getting hurt but it reminded me all to much of myself and family members. I am rather clumsy all the time. My sailor always jokingly asks me if I have any new bruises to report and if I say no he'll be like yay!. If I say yes he always says "aw baby what did you do to yourself?" Anyways, I hope that you get everything balanced out =) I'm sure you will, might just take some time.

[Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons]

I know it must be very hard with your spouse being at boot camp and thinking about all the future times he will be away. My suggestion would be to make a list of everything that needs to be done and limit how many things you put on the list for each day. If you make it too long you won't get it all done and you will feel guilty. Prioritize the list and do the most important things first and mark them off as you go. Make sure you put some time on that list for your kids such as reading a book, playing a game, having dinner at the table together, and make sure you put some time for you to have alone once the kids are in bed. Pick out a novel to read or spend some time on here with your new friends. And don't be too hard on yourself. You are one person and there is only so much you can do. He will be happy for all you do. And maybe you can use some of your time with your kids and your alone time to make him a scrap book of fun things you and the kids have been doing while he is away so he doesn't miss anything. It is okay to not be able to do somethings on your own. I am sure he will love knowing that you still need him and can't accomplish everything without him.