As some of you may know I have not had much time for anything as of late. Between the kindergarten schedule, the coaching sessions I have been taking (will explain in a moment), the practice schedule I had adapted for my music, my jogging schedule, college, working on finishing the house, unpacking, and the overall duties that come with motherhood there is just not enough time for anything. When I am not on the go, the kids are. It is hectic at the moment, but I know that what I am doing will pay off in the long run… Eventually… Or so I hope.
So back to the coaching thing… In Germany they have a coaching thing that is free through the social service offices. It basically means that you will have someone come to your house twice a week that will help you clean the house and deal with the kids. They teach you methods of organization and how to keep the kids from messing up everything once you have it all cleaned. All of this goes toward the goal of making more time for moms that feel like they are constantly cleaning and never seeing an end to it. My husband thinks it is a great idea, I however, am not so sure.
Yesterday my coach came to the house and we basically just started cleaning and she left after about three hours. The kids were asleep for two of those hours so she did not have the joy that I do of seeing them in action. Almost immediately after she left the kids decided that they were awake. Consequently it was the same moment I decided to take a 5 minute shower. I get out of the shower only to find that I have to redo everything I had done that morning. I did so in record time without complaint. Yet overall I had to redo the same thing 5 more times until the kids were finally passed out from exhaustion and so was I. So I got up this morning and cleaned up yet again.
How does this training thing help and make more time for me you ask… I have no idea, but if you figure it out please let me know. With all I have to do schedule wise, I doubt I will ever see my good old friend called time until the kids are older. I’m ok with that so long as I don’t have people trying to fill me with false hope that time actually does exist. Time left on the day I gave birth for the first time. It packed its bags and took off running for the door. When it could not escape that way it jumped out of the window and I have not seen it since. Think I’m kidding.
Here is some of the things that are also being set up for me to do in the future. Taking Alex to appointments two or three times a week, school to make sure I have integrated into German life, a part-time job, because let’s face it, I have no more time to give to a job. Other activities include going back and forth to Munich to make sure I have a little sanity time, walking back and forth to the store for grocery shopping, planning a trip to the states so I can get a drivers license, and a whole slew of other things that have not occurred to me. And these things are suppose to make time for me? Right… I will buy these items as time vampires, but don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining. Like I said, I’ve no issue knowing how time-consuming these things are, so long as no one is trying to instill false hope. Kids and activities that come with kids take up time. Add that to the time it takes to maintain college and what you consider to be your life or what is left of it and that is even more time. Time plus time equals less time for you. That’s just math, which says a lot coming from a person that is practically math illiterate.
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