Wednesdays are interesting for me because I am done teaching (and with the yearbook meeting) at 11:40. I have a super long prep period, then (almost always) a staff meeting, and then my work day is done. I commonly schedule appointments on Wednesday because it’s easier to miss (or leave early from) a staff meeting, and sometimes we’re not officially meeting so I don’t even have to put in the hours. This Wednesday I did not have an appointment (I do the next two this month!), but I did have to present during our staff meeting which means it was a little more of an energy suck that usual.
1:00 Prep work in my classroom.
1:30 Staff meeting – I presented on what I learned at the conference in Palm Sltings.
3:00 Drive home
4:00 Get home. Make myself food. Eat and watch Summer House (penultimate episode of season 8!)
4:30 Work remotely with the 15yo on her resume (she was at the husband’s office waiting to go to swim so we texted and commented on the doc to do some editing)
5:00 Read some Summer House recaps
5:10 Decide I am going to go to the dojo (I had been waffling), and rush to get ready.
5:20 Throw in a load laundry I forgot I wanted to start
5:26 Leave super late for the dojo
5:31 On the bus
5:45 Arrive at the dojo for a 5:45 class – Oops! – get to warm ups a little late
6:15 General class starts
7:00 General class ends / High Belt begins
7:45 High Belt class ends, change back into civies
8:02 Get on bus
8:30 Home, eat a snack (then another snack… prob should have been a small meal)
8:45 Remember laundry, move it to dryer
8:50 Do kitchen prep chores: wash dishes, prep coffee, etc (these are husband’s chores, but he is helping the 15yo finalize her resume, which they FINALLY do!)
9:30 Argument with 12yo about his access to podcasts after 10pm (we are cutting him off because we believe it keeps him up, and he is not happy)
9:45 Deal with emotional fallout of argument
10:05 Finally leave 12yo’s room (it was a big meltdown), add 10 mins to dryer, brush teeth/wash face
10:30 Fold laundry
10:45 Play Two Dots in bed (not great)
11:00 Add stuff to this post
11:10 Phone off / asleep
so you really had 40 minutes of choice time assuming we see the Dojo which I see as mental and physical health. That’s not much. And maybe the wind down minutes in bed as you got ready for sleep but really everyone needs some minutes att the day’s end and it seems to be at the cost of your sleep. No wonder you are feeling pushed and frazzled.
So far it looks super busy.
I also said I was going to try time tracking my evenings, but haven’t done it yet (I keep forgetting.) So you feel like this is helpful for you? Anything you can change? Honestly I feel like my time tracking would look a lot like this (minus the trip to the dojo). Just a lot of chores, cooking, arguing with/supervising kids… you’re motivating me. I’ll aim to do this starting Monday.
Your job is particularly non-flexible. Is this also true of your husband’s? Jobs vary in this regard. Does this make a difference in who is doing what with household and/or children?
Oof- the meltdown with the 12 yo sounds rough. We have avoided getting the 2 younger daughters phones and I hope to continue to avoid it. They are 13 and 15.