https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:59:27 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/overwhelmed-with-the-schedule#post-962758 Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:31:56 +0000 T.H.O.U. 962758@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@highwire: To me, as a WOHM, my family time is more important then other mom time. So we have maybe lost touch with some friends. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/overwhelmed-with-the-schedule#post-962753 Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:30:18 +0000 DillonLion 962753@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@babynumber1: That's a good point. Maybe I need to cool it with the play groups (I'm really wanting to find some mom friends!) but that would open up the schedule a little more for family time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/overwhelmed-with-the-schedule#post-962751 Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:29:17 +0000 lindseykaye 962751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My only advice is to try as hard as you can to let go of the guilt surrounding plans with other people. Sometimes you just need some time to yourselves!<br /> I am in a similar boat but I am hoping I can work on streamlining a few things to give myself more breathing room. Making meals in advance to freeze, getting an actual household chore schedule set up so I don't always feel behind on that stuff. I'm not sure when it will happen but I am hoping soon... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/overwhelmed-with-the-schedule#post-962750 Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:29:13 +0000 DillonLion 962750@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sheskrafty: Haha right? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/overwhelmed-with-the-schedule#post-962748 Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:29:08 +0000 babynumber1 962748@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was like this when LO was 4-6 months old. She was still pretty needy and everyone still wanted to visit often. </p> <p>We cut down most visits to every other week. More than that was too much. </p> <p>It also helped when LO was able to have a conistant bedtime. She is down at 8 and that time is ours. She also takes a nap from 5-6, so thats cooking and chore time. </p> <p>Honestly, we aren't getting to church right now. LO naps from 11-1, and we go to the 11 service. I honestly refuse to get up and be out of the house for the 8am service and I can't take her to the nursery super cranky. </p> <p>And we don't do playgroups unless they are social hour for mom and dad with our good friends. LO gets plenty of interaction at daycare. Family time is too valuable!</p> <p>This has made it all managable, but it took awhile to find our balance as a family. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/overwhelmed-with-the-schedule#post-962730 Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:23:45 +0000 sheskrafty 962730@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What's this exercise you speak of?!? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/overwhelmed-with-the-schedule#post-962691 Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:12:58 +0000 KayKay 962691@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think we just got used to it? I wouldn't say it got easier, just that it seems less daunting because we figured out little ways to make things go smoother (i.e., prep the night before, run errands on my lunch break, etc). It's not necessarily less busy, but it is less chaotic.</p> <p>I'm still not able to exercise as much as I'd like to or did before LO, but I've figured out where to fit in enough, and I finally decided to stop feeling bad about it!</p> <p>We are also pretty protective of our downtime on the weekends. We try to do things that we want to do, not things that we feel we *should* do. There's just never enough time (or time at the right time, if that makes sense) for everything, though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/overwhelmed-with-the-schedule#post-962630 Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:56:08 +0000 DillonLion 962630@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How do you balance it all? The work week is just insane. It is sun up to sun down balls to the wall busy every single day. But by the time the weekend rolls around it is play groups and seeing family and housework and church and pretty much no down time at all (let alone time to, you know, exercise, or whatever), unless we deny people who want to see us. And then I feel guilty. I hate it. </p> <p>Any advice? </p>