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Finding Myself

July 29, 2008

The other evening I got very frustrated with my husband because of his travel schedule for work. I said to him, “I feel like I have no life and the entire family’s schedule revolves around yours.” After I said this to him, I realized I was the only one that had the major issue with his absence. What was really bothering me was a lack of control.

I look at all of these well-toned, volunteering, career achieving mums and I think, are the pressures of raising a family today just too much at times? We worry about if our kids our taking their vitamins at camp, doing the right activities. I know mums also worry in their own heads at times, what about ME? If they are working, what is the next career step? If they have taken time off from their careers, when do they go back and how do they fit back into the working world? Some mums have decided they are done with the “corporate world”, but this poses a decision as well. When their child begin to go to school full-time, what do we do with the free hours and still feel productive?

I think raising a family is always in transition, I just wonder if we can have a bit more tranquility in our own minds while we are running to get the next birthday gift or trying to catch a cab for an 8:00 a.m. breakfast meeting; maybe if we can stay in the moment and applaud ourselves for doing a good job we would be a bit more at peace for our families. I know that lately I need to adhere to this advice as well.

Posted by NatalieGeary | Filed Under Deana's Dish 

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