multi-tasking or multi-messing!!!
The things we do in the name of multitasking amaze me sometimes. I mean as, if I had a penny for every time I have had breakfast, charged my phone, done my hair, fixed my face all in the 20 minutes before I reach the school gate in time for carpool duty, I should have a pretty neat sum piling up somewhere. I mean, we are all mothers, and we have all done some variation of that every opportunity we get.
I mean, if you were to only see my coffee table, with DIY- kits, sheet masks, pending paperwork, snacks, green tea bag, and what not after I put the kids to bed like I am going to conquer the night. We are all guilty of feeling guilty and secretly wanting to live up a little as mothers. Every evening I make my callbacks, think, procrastinate, plan the coming day, dinner, all in the 40 minutes I walk in the evening all the while supervising the boys as they cycle.
These days while trying to keep the kids away from gadgets, I am now known to be watching some show, some documentary, some home improvement show, anything, while cooking as I can't be doing it with the kids around. We are all mothers, we are all doing variations of it as we have to or things would all come tumbling down. Do you ever imagine yourself as the juggler you see in funfairs, with all these balls in the air, he does not start with so many. He has one then keeps adding, but as life moves on I feel every day is not a fresh start, we start each day with the balls we did not drop the previous day, and everyday we drop some and add some.
Even things meant for relaxation are fitted into tight schedules and multitasked, where more often than not there is no satisfaction in it other than just that it's done and dusted. The amount I want to pack in a day sometimes scares me, am I burning the candle both ways, but there is so much to do and you would not have it any other way and have to do it all, you let all the joy slide out of life.
Getting relaxing, me-time is first a fight to get there and then to be done with it. I thought of all this and more while planning the coming week schedules, menus, exam prep, meetings, and in between a voice just saying your walk time is for your to relax and unwind. Then back to did I turn in the younger ones' book week project, have to pack for the upcoming girls trip, schedule salon trip before that, friends birthday gifts, invitations to make, and invitations to decline.
In between all of that this realization was the tiny moment I thought that this multitasking is just multi-messing of everything I am doing. Not that there was anything I did or could do to stop or even slow down these racing thoughts running through my head.
Ah! carry a small diary and pen next time I go for a walk and write everything that comes to mind while walking, that should clear my head... what say, girls!!!
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