Your Perfect Day

First, a sidebar:
I took one of those online personality tests and this was my result:

“Self revealing, neat, craves attention, prefers organized to unpredictable, needs things to be extremely clean, worrying, perfectionist, emotionally sensitive, respects authority, social, vain, does not like to be alone, likes large parties, controlling, social chameleon, not a thrill seeker, enjoys leadership, takes precautions, puts the needs of others ahead of their own, assertive, rule conscious, makes friends easily, always busy, heart over mind, phobic, aggressive, clingy, compassionate, dominant, outgoing, suspicious, hard working, strong.”

Wow. This is me, dead-on.
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I am struggling recently with finding a balance. As the saying goes, there are not enough hours in the day. I find myself going through my days distracted, trying to do WAY too many things at the same time and giving NONE of those things my best effort. I have trouble shutting the door on one thing when it’s time to do something else.

If I can’t find a way to fit it all in, I suppose I need to eliminate some things. But I don’t want to eliminate anything {stamping her foot and pouting}. So I keep trying to find a way to make it work.

I challenge you today to describe your perfect day. This is not a fantasy day, but rather how you’d like your days to flow on a regular basis. Also consider what you would need to happen in order to make it a reality. Unless it already is a reality. In that case, you may leave this blog now and return to your regularly scheduled perfect life.

My Perfect Day:

• Get up around 7 am after getting an uninterrupted 7-8 hours of sleep.
• Feed the kids, have breakfast
• Shower, enjoy my coffee in silence, read email & blogs, write
• About 11 am, play with the kids and have lunch
• Run errands or go to playdates with the kids in the early afternoon
• Do an educational activity with L while C naps
• Prepare dinner (without the stress of trying to cook and keep tired, hungry children happy), eat at 6 pm
• Clean up, put C to bed
• Go to the gym
• Free time to spend with PHAT Daddy, watch some TV, surf the web or scrapbook
• Go to sleep around 11 pm.

In order to make this happen, I would need to:

• Get my kids to sleep through the night.
• Hire Alice from The Brady Bunch.

Seriously, with a little planning, this doesn’t look all that impossible. Having free time until 11 am probably isn’t realistic, but maybe PHAT Daddy & I can work on a compromise. It would take some shifting of the kids’ schedules and the bit about preparing dinner will always be a challenge. I’d also need extra time somewhere during the weekend to do the books for The Master’s business and pay the bills. But, damn, maybe I CAN make this work.