Sometimes it takes a moment of reflection to see the path you've been heading down recently. And while breastfeeding, I'm forced to sit and reflect on things a lot!
This week I realised that while we succeed at maintaining a healthy work / life balance (most of the time!), it's trying to establish a more sustainable renovation / life balance that we need to work on.
And last weekend is the perfect example. For a while we had wanted to replace the guttering at the front of the house to match the new roofing on the porch. During the week I had a spare moment to ring around for quotes, and when we discovered how affordable it was, we decided to do it. Mark measured up, I ordered it and Mark picked it up before work on Friday morning. We had our neighbour booked in to help and we were all ready to go.
Then our TV antenna stopped working. Another trip to Bunnings, and Mark's time spent researching. I spent most child-free moments on Saturday painting the front door jam, and filling any gaps between the jam and the architrave.
Mark then spent Sunday morning up the ladder taking down the old antenna and replacing it with a shiny new one. I love shiny new things!
Then we all went to Ava's swimming lesson together as a family, before Mark spent the rest of the afternoon replacing the front guttering.
That was the weekend gone. And while the kids spent patches of time with their Daddy on Saturday and Sunday, had a nice time with me, saw their grandparents and had an afternoon in the park with friends, they didn't get big chunks of quality time with their Daddy and we didn't get much family time.
We all felt the effects of not spending time relaxing together, and have promised ourselves to try not to let the house take over again.
It's so easy to focus on the end result we want to achieve with the house, and loose focus of the time we need to spend together as a family along the way!
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