After I had kids, I had MUCH less time to myself. I had to eat fast before they woke up and I couldn’t even go to the bathroom whenever I wanted to because I had to tend to the kids’ needs. Sometimes I had only one hour a day to myself. And then I would get to do whatever it was that I wanted to do. It never seemed like enough time but the sliver lining of the situation (apart from the wonderful kids!) was that it made me much better at prioritizing.
But I discovered that an hour is actually kind of a long time. Recently, I was traveling with the kids and some days I had even less than an hour to myself. It was more like five minutes and I tried to quickly write a blog post. Which is like me saying to myself, “This is the very most important thing in the world that I could be doing right now, with my five minutes of free time.” I’m not sure that I believe that about this blog, but it’s an interesting perspective to put on an hour, or every five minutes.