If only ....

There are not enough hours in the day or rather the day and the night.

If one makes allowance for a full 8 hours sleep, there are 16 awake hours in the day. If we are lucky we will spend only 3 of those 16 hours travelling to and from work, which leaves us with 13 hours.

If we work from 8 to 5 we are left with 4 hours! Me thinks there must be something wrong with my calculation - 4 hours left in each day to do what we need to do.  Well 5 hours if you actually get to take your lunch hour.

If we take away the good stuff, like watching our favourite tv programme we have 3 hours left to make and have breakfast and supper, and generally do the usual weekday household chores and spend time with our family.

As much as I love my sleep, I wish I was the type of person who could survive and thrive on way less sleep than the average person.  I would have so much more time to do the things that I put off again and again because there is just not enough time in one day.

The huge plus for me as a working mom would be that I would have a good couple of quiet hours just to myself.  Now that would be bliss!