Balancing family and friends

Family time is awesome. Lazy Sundays are the best. Heath is usually off of work on Sundays, so that is always our family day. Although our life revolves around the kids' schedules and Heath's work schedule, we try to make time for dates and time with friends. We are so blessed to have such a great support system. It allows us to get away without feeling guilty.

Last Sunday night I got to go out to dinner with my old friends from high school. It was so good to see all of them and catch up on everyones' lives. This week Heath and I got to go out to dinner and a movie. We had been wanting to see the movie "Date Night" and it was playing in the balcony where Heath works. It was such a good movie and it related to our lives so closely! Last night one of our friends celebrated his 30th birthday, so we got to see some of our other friends that we hadn't seen in a long time. We hadn't really had time before this week to do much and starting next week, we'll be running the boys to baseball practices and game so much that we won't have time to do anything else.

Family time is by far the most important, but let's face it - if we never took time out for ourselves, we'd go crazy. It's so nice to get out and socialize with other adults. I talk to kids all day, so it's especially nice for me to feel normal :)

Taking time to breathe

I haven't blogged in so long because my life right now is CRAZY!!! I can't look at my calendar without getting a panic attack. Jake just finished up with swimming lessons, and Gavin's first baseball game out of his first tournament is tonight along with Aidan's T-ball practice. I've been taking things week by week. Aidan is on a separate team this year because he's in a different age division than Gavin now. Between both of their practices and games, it's going to be insane this summer! Not to mention we have 4 of our kids' birthdays between now and when school starts. A months after school starts we are adding a new baby into the mix!

It may sound like I'm complaining, but I'm really not. Even though it's crazy and I don't know how we'll do it when we add 2 or 3 more kids' sports into the mix, it keeps things interesting. It makes me challenge myself. I have learned that I'm going to forget about a free dress day or a show and tell every once in a while and I'm going to be okay. (More importantly, my kids are going to be okay) Even though I feel like a failure at the time, it makes me reevaluate how I'm organizing things and it makes me a better mom. I'm trying my best and that's all I can do.