The hours sneak away
Each school day I have two precious hours between the time I drop Gleek off at Kindergarten and the time that I have to pick her up. Those two morning hours are my most productive time of the day. After I pick Gleek up there are more distractions and the afternoon ebb in my energy. Sometimes I still get things done, but more often I don’t. I anticipate next fall when Gleek will be in school full time and I will have a long stretch of day in which to get things done.
Today and yesterday my good working hours went into accounting work. I don’t think it should have consumed that much time, but it did.
Where do the hours go? I glance up and the time is gone and yet I still have piles of tasks to do.
One of my tasks for today was to take a nap. I’ve been shorting myself on sleep lately and I can feel it. Unfortunately I didn’t finish the accounting work until 3 pm. In a moment I’ll need to fetch Kiki from school. Then I have to head straight into Cub Scout activities. During cub scouts I have to be high energy and focused on helping the boys in my den.
Maybe the nap will come after that. But there is dinner to make and homework to supervise. Then later this evening I have an event to attend.
Hours of day left and none of it napable.
….It says something about the sneakiness of hours that I wrote this entry at 3:30, but then didn’t post it until almost 10.