It really does just sound impossible, pretty much.

Yeah, I can't think of a good way to work things out. I like Fred Pete's idea to get a little self-time, but I don't know how I do all this and increase sleep time too.

You exercise every weekday morning, Gud? Lose it. Drop to two or three times, and get some in on the weekend.

This might be a dumb question, but are you sleepy? Because maybe if you can figure out a way to get 7 hours every night, instead of 5-7 hours that you are getting, it might be doable. But not if you are also starting a business. Then it seems the only available time would be sleep time.

Actually the question I deleted asked whether your problem was more lack of sleep or lack of self-time.

And I agree with the others -- if you're stretched already, adding the responsibilities of a home business isn't an option.

>lack of self-time.

This is why I KNOW I am an introvert, despite all my cow-orkers protests-- I need like 5 hours of self time a day! And, like, a whole weekend day. I think if I had an SO around and we were both doing things quietly or talking a bit, that would be OK. Maybe.

Yay for The Scream!

OSLO, Norway - Norwegian police said on Thursday they had found two masterpieces by Edvard Munch on Thursday, two years after they were seized from a museum by gunmen.

One of the paintings is “The Scream”. The other, “Madonna”, shows a bare-breasted woman with long black hair.

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Sophia is so me.

Yay for The Scream!

This makes me unreasonably happy. Good to know it's back where it belongs.

I've yet to figure a way around the hours in the day issue. Now that the kids stay up later it just makes it harder. I have to get up at 5:45 to get Brendon to his bus by 6:40. I'd love to go to bed at 10 when the kids go to bed, but I need some unwind time. Catching up on the weekends really doesn't work.

5:45am get Brendon going. 6:45am my time for exercise or whatever 7:45am get Bobby going 8:45am drop Bobby and go to work. 3:15pm Brendon's bus drops him off, but he doesn't need me anymore (yippee!) 4:30pm Bobby's bus drops him at the city pool and he either goes swimming for a while, or calls me to pick him up. 6:00pm or so try and leave the office and get home and cook dinner. I do homework stuff with Brendon while DH does homework stuff with Bobby. (new plan this year) 9:00pm kick the boys off electronic stuff and send them to their rooms (yeah, like that works) 10:00 tell the boys lights out. Do laundry, dishes, 50 million other things. Go to bed, read 3 paragraphs, fall asleep.

The boys do chores, like their own laundry, but any parent will tell you it is actually more work to get kids to do chores than to do them yourself. Still, I make them do stuff.

I would give anything for more time. Working at home helped in the saving of travel time, but I was less focused.

In other words, no answers from the chickee. Working dad has the same schedule and issues as me really except he stays up a bit later and gets up a bit later.