so today so far I have...

[steppemum]

Today was set aside to do the sewing that has been waiting for ages. half term, teen kids, and off work, so nothing in the diary, free day.

But so far I have:
7-7:30 meeting that I had agreed to, I thought it would get me up and going!
then:
-take dd's friend to station so she can get home to work
-walk the dog
-pick up dad from garage (his car in for service)
-coffee and chat with dad
-help dd2 with homework
-make lunch for dad
-take dad back to garage
-take dd1 to hospital to get wrist x-rayed as she fell skateboarding last night and it is sore
-make dd2 lunch (not normal it was incentive for getting the homework done)
-take dd2 for hair cut (should have been tuesday, she was sick)
-get whatsapp message if anyone can take friend to A&E, so I go and pick her up as I have to go to hospital anyway.
-drop friend at A&E and pick up dd1 (sprained not broken wrist)
-come home and cook dinner.
-dinner in oven now, and I have done zero sewing.

I know I could have said no to some of them.
And I cold have seen some of them coming when dd2 was ill on Tuesday so Tuesday's things bumped to today.
But does anyone else get this?

Too tired to sew now.

I mean, I don’t get it as crazy as that! But yes I do get it. Luckily I’ve got three small children including 13 month old twins, so no one is expecting me to do be able to run them to A&E, pick up meetings on my day off or to the garage etc. The bar for what I can achieve in a day is set VERY low. But my own life gets in the way of non-urgent tasks.

it is hard Dad is 81 and I am just starting to need to give my parents more time and input and help.
But my teens still need a lot of support (especially the youngest)

I am self employed so my choice to have the meeting, as I said I thought it would get me up and going.
But then instead of walking dog at 7:30 I had to wait until after I'd taken dd's friend to the station.
That was only needed because yesterday there were train strikes, she hadn't planned to stay over originally.

and so on....

I get it. I just deal with the disappointment of having time for my hobbies most of the time, but with things like my allotment, it really gets to me because the more time spent away the harder it is when I return.

DH is sympathetic but his one hobby is gaming, which he can do when the kids are in bed every evening. It's much harder to make time for mine, there's always something that needs doing that takes priority.

No advice, sadly, because I wouldn't recommend doing what I usually do which is downing a few espressos and sewing late into the night 😬

yes my other thing is the garden.
I spent the weekend in the garden so was looking forward to getting sewing done.

I'll get the pile out and see what I can do on my lap in front of telly, then I might even get the machine out.

I think I just get tired that all the interruptions are on me.
Not really fair, dh was working (from home). He would have done hospital runs if he hadn't been in meetings. But he was technically working, so he can't deal with household stuff and I wasn't.

<sigh>