{"id":406,"date":"2006-08-28T11:35:54","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T17:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2006-08-28T11:35:54","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T17:35:54","slug":"reconciling-my-stressed-relationship-with-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/28\/reconciling-my-stressed-relationship-with-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconciling My Stressed Relationship With Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our weekend without the kids was a huge blast!\u00a0 We <em><strong>did<\/strong><\/em> get home, though, and spend the first few hours wandering around the house smelling their pillows and folding and refolding their clothes (ok ok, <strong>I<\/strong> did.\u00a0 John just looked at me like I was crazy). But once we looked around and realized that we were autonomous being again, we hit the road with an energy that we haven&#8217;t had in years.\u00a0 Several margaritas and movies later we found ourselves back home idly anticipating the kids&#8217; return.\u00a0 What I realized (and what is <em>impossible<\/em> to realize unless you have children) is that there is a LOT of time in the day that gets wasted if you spend it being all about you.\u00a0 I can honestly say that I never realized how much time I wasted when I was a single college student &#8211; I felt like I was hard working.\u00a0 And I guess I was for that time in my life.\u00a0 Having kids, though, sets a new standard for your relationship with time and space and energy.\u00a0 You cross a threshold that puts you into an almost superhuman league of being able to get things done with time to spare.\u00a0 Most days, yes, I feel exhausted and overwhelmed but, without that, I&#8217;ve realized that I don&#8217;t feel like I am accomplishing much these days.\u00a0 I can really say that life is better when you are living it for others as much as you are living it for yourself.\u00a0 Otherwise, it just seems like a lot of wasted time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our weekend without the kids was a huge blast!\u00a0 We did get home, though, and spend the first few hours wandering around the house smelling their pillows and folding and refolding their clothes (ok&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}