Selectively Juggling

My priority today (Sunday) is to ensure I balance life’s competing demands and essential priorities. These include making sure my daughter is given her morning medication (for epilepsy and benign brain tumour) and again evening epilepsy meds. I also need to do my son’s weekly plasma treatment. That can be time consuming and frustrating. There is also shopping to do, washing and cleaning, as well as heading out to a beautiful Spring Fair by the water. I’d like to get back out into the garden again today, that is after I go buy some more soil and large containers, or plant troughs. I work tomorrow so hope that I get enough of what I need done today finished. Thankfully I work remotely tomorrow so can save time on my commute. That’s 40 minutes I can either get to write, sleep, clean, parent, garden or simply not rush. So basically my priority for tomorrow will again be to selectively juggle life’s competing demands. It will be to compartmentalise life and work. I must admit I have had a little compassion fatigue these last two weeks, after taking on additional higher duties at work. Thankfully my manager will be back and I can gratefully hand back that moniker. I am exhausted after doing more hours, carrying my caseload and managing staff. It’s not for me! Perhaps if I wasn’t a parent of a child with disabilities and complex support needs, I’d have greater mental energy to dedicate to work. Either way the last 6 weeks has thrown my finely balanced act off kilter. Not fun! So my priority is to recalibrate, ground and rejuvenate. Somewhere in the mix, I will ensure I write and photograph.