Lunch Date

Eve and I had a lunch date today and it was really fun. This last year has been really hectic for me. I have been going to school full time plus working full time. I feel really bad because although I try to spend time with her it isn’t always easy because there is always work to be done.

This is a typical day that everything runs smoothly on. It doesn’t count Tuesday nights when I would go directly from work to school until 10:00 at night or the nights I work until 7:30 with club sponsorships

6:30~Wake up
7:30~Drive to work
8:00-4:30~Work
4:30-5:00~Drive Home
5:00-5:30~Relax
5:30-6:30~Make and eat dinner
6:30-7:00~Let Eve watch TV.
7:00-8:00~Read Eve 1000 books
8:00~Put Eve to Bed
8:30-12:30~Work on homework and Nest(I need to do something for my sanity.)
12:30-1:00~get ready for bed.
1:00-???~Lay in bed with a list a mile long of things that need to get done.

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I know you are probably thinking what a wuss. Adam is wonderful and does everything I ask on top of going to work all day, but my problem lies in I think my crazy schedule is really unfair to Eve. I love her to pieces and want to spend so much time with her but I just can’t. Even now that it is summer and I don’t have to work I find it difficult to spend time with her. I am taking two summer classes and one of them has an outrageous amount of work involved. I know I am getting my masters so that I can provide more for my family and also so that I can set a good example for Eve in regards to school, but I feel like I am missing out on so much of her life. I guess I just have to remind myself that I start my capstone project in the fall and that will be the beginning of the end (plus my course load will be much lighter.) In the meantime I am trying to create room in my day to do special things just with Eve. Today I took her to tumbling and afterwards we went to Streets of New York and split french fries and a Coke (really healthy I know). I love streets because they are never busy when we go there. It was so nice to sit and giggle with my little girl and talk about letters, numbers, colors, and all of the silly animals noises she knows. I think she must have told me 100 times in the hour we were there that she loved me. I am so happy that we just got some us time because even though she is always supportive of my schooling (she understands “shhh mommy is on a web-conference right now.” means play quietly next to me) I think she miss our goofy time and I know I certainly do too.