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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
bride2bee2008
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How do you find time for hobbies?
bride2bee2008
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I know every family and parent is "busy" in some way or another but I swear, I feel like I have NO time to take up any hobbies.
I work part time and stay at home with DS the other duration of the work week. We also have a family business which I help with part time on the weekends and evenings.
I feel like sometimes my only break is waking up at 6am to exercise, but that just makes me so tired in the evening and ready for bed at 10!
I'd love to hear some hobbies you ladies participate in and when/how you find time to schedule them in!
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Re: How do you find time for hobbies?
I gave up sleep.
I work FT and do at least one, sometimes up to 4, photoshoots a week. And then there's housework, cooking, laundry, etc. We have someone who cleans the house, so that helps, and my H hangs out with the kids while I am off taking pics (which I count as my hobby). But yeah. I'm up till at least 11 every night and that's too late for me.
DS: 10/11/14
I'm a figure skater and skate with a team. So that gets me out of the house for a few hours at least once a week. We also travel to 2-3 competitions per season, so I get a few days away.
At home, I have time for nothing, not even exercise most days. I have a full gym at home, but sadly I can't seem to get away from the kids to work out during the day (DS doesn't nap). I'd have to get up at 4:30 to do so before getting the kids up for school and that just doesn't happen. So honestly, leaving for the rink is the only way I can do something for myself.
My problem is that I don't have a freaking hobby! I need to find something that interests me and then force myself to find the time to do it.
There was a 6 month period where the only time I had to myself was 1 afternoon when I got a subway sandwich and sat in my car by myself and ate it before I picked DS up at day care.
Yea I NEED to find a hobby...
I love gardening. It's my only hobby really. I plop DS into his radio flyer along with some bulbs/shrubs and a shovel and I dig away while he watches or roams near me. It gives us some time in the fresh air and my yard looks tidy.
I don't know what I'm going to do in the winter. I hate it.
What time do you want to go to bed?
DH and I both work full time, so I know what you mean! I scrapbook, and I make it a point to go once a month (the consultant I buy products from has sessions at her house once a month). They start at 7pm and last until 11pm. I am definitely tired by the end, but it feels so good to go do something I enjoy and I don't feel too badly leaving since DD goes to bed shortly after I leave anyway. In addition, I go to about 4 all day events per year, and DH takes care of DD on those days. This coming spring, I am going to a weekend long scrapbooking event, and it will be my first time leaving DD overnight (albeit with DH). I am nervous about that, but I know it will be good for me!
As far as errands, we do a lot of them on the weekends with DD and I try to do some on my lunch break too.
Theoretically, I could do a little bit of sewing while DS1 is in preschool (he does half days) and DS2 is napping during that time, but I usually just eat lunch, prep dinner and relax. So I try to sew on weekends or at night (though DS2's sleep has been such crap that I'm too tired to do anything after they go to bed on weeknights...). I took a drawing class once a week this spring, which was great, and I think I'm going to do a sewing one at the end of the month for a few weeks.
My mom always said she just didn't sleep when she wanted to do stuff, and would stay up late after we went to bed. So true now that I have two! It was a lot easier to do stuff after DS1 went to bed when he was my only kid...
DS2 - Oct 2010 (my VBAC baby!)
I kind of gave up sleep, but I have a feeling I am one of the lazier moms on TB and probably get more rest than many. When C is up, I get no relaxing or hobby time, everything is while he is asleep, and only because DH and I have chores worked out so we do upkeep during the week and more thorough cleaning Friday through Sunday.
I cook dinner while C is still up; DH doesn't get home til just a little after C's bedtime. I then take the next 3 hours to either play Warcraft online or to read or watch a DVRed show, sometimes two activities together. I get the kitchen sweeping and mopping done during that time too, and handwash dishes (no dishwasher in oldass home). I also have a few hundred books on my ipad, so I read during my lunch hour at work.
ETA: I haven't seen my friends in forever. By the time C gets to bed and DH is home so I can actually go do anything, its too late for my friends, since the majority of them have older kids with either activities during the week or in bed by 830 or 9. I had to go grocery shopping with my bff to be able to spend time with her, and was in tears that day because I was so stressed I had to get out of the house so she invited me along.
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I'm up at 5:15 for yoga on the best of days. I read after C has gone to bed, even if it's only 15-20min; that's somehow easier to do since I got a Kindle, I can't explain how. I haven't been able to get myself committed to an out-of-the house option yet--yoga, Zumba, some kind of class. But hope once DH is employed again and our routine feels more settled that I can make it more of a priority.