Just that really. Advice from other mumsnetters needed - how do you cope with your busy lives?
DH and I are both full time teachers, kids in Yr 3 and reception. Just finding the weeks are flying by and we’re not doing anything that makes us happy. Week is out the house at 7.20 am, back in at 6pm and then it’s quick snack for the kids, story and bed at 7. We then do a couple of hours marking or planning and bed for us at 10 so we can cope with the next day.
Saturdays are swimming lessons and making sure the kids get their homework done. Swimming is the only ‘club’ they do which also makes me feel guilty as my daughter’s friends do gymnastics, dance, Brownies but we just haven’t got the time to fit those in. I also feel guilty as we can’t do tea play dates like her friends and she often feels left out. Luckily DS isn’t interested in extra stuff! Today is visiting my mum (who is in a home) and then DH’s mum who is elderly but lives alone and then it’s back to Monday and it starts all over again!
Just feel we’re living for the holidays which is the bonus of teaching but I just wish we could get that balance during term time.
I know I’m having a pity party and hope it doesn’t come across as all ‘woe is me’. I am looking for some helpful tips to organise our lives, I can’t imagine anything changing at the moment and am hoping a stranger’s perspective can give us some clarity!