A "typical" day.....

I read this over at a blog I frequent, GirlTalk, and thought it worth passing on and figured a few of you could relate.  

I know I sure did! And I know I could even add quite a few more paragraphs to that list or what a "typical" day is!  

OUT OF TIME  

"The woman who wrote to the Washington Post advice columnist, Carolyn Hax, wanted to know why her friend, a new mom, no longer had time for her. Ms. Hax's response--though not too gracious--was dead-on-accurate in its portrayal of the life of a mom with young kids:  

“When you have young kids, your typical day is: constant attention, from getting them out of bed, fed, clean, dressed; to keeping them out of harm's way; to answering their coos, cries, questions; to having two arms and carrying one kid, one set of car keys, and supplies for even the quickest trips, including the latest-to-be-declared-essential piece of molded plastic gear; to keeping them from unshelving books at the library; to enforcing rest times; to staying one step ahead of them lest they get too hungry, tired or bored, any one of which produces the kind of checkout-line screaming that gets the checkout line shaking its head. It's constant vigilance, constant touch, constant use of your voice, constant relegation of your needs to the second tier.  

It's doing all this while concurrently teaching virtually everything -- language, manners, safety, resourcefulness, discipline, curiosity, creativity. Empathy. Everything.  

Or, as Ms. Hax puts it, “It's needing 45 minutes to do what takes others 15.”