A Life Without Sleep

If only, I had more time in the day.

Do you know how many times I have said that. Each day there are many things that I need to do and so much more that I wish I had the time to do. With three daughters that I solo parent full time, it can be hard to get to spend quality time with them all.

If I didn't need to sleep, then I would spend the day light hours
doing super creative stuff with my girls, one on one. That's if they would let me. My eldest is growing up so fast and she is a proper teenager now.

It's interesting seeing how quickly they go from being a child to a teenager, it's almost like it happens over night and bam, there goes your little girl. Now she wants to be with her friends and tells me, that there are some things that she can only discuss with her friends.

I tell her I am always here for her, but I also get it. I'm the mum and I'm just not that cool at her age. But still I would like to find a new project, that we could do together and spend time each day on it. Of course that also depends if she wants to, spend that time with me.

My other two, spend most of their time here with me on the land. They are both super creative and super imaginative as well. I would love more time to get involved in their games. They ask me, but between house work and garden work, I sometimes can't.

Then there are the animals as well. My Freya, is getting old now she is 8 and a half now, which is still quite young, but she is almost a pure breed and Rottweilers don't live as long as mixed breeds. I don't even want to think about life without her. I would like more time, to take her on leisurely walks each day and just enjoy being in her presence.

The same with all the other animals in my life. I would also delegate some time for the garden, to water and feed the soil and to harvest and prune.

Then as the night falls, I would focus more on the daily chores I need to do. Especially now as it is summer and the days are really quite hot. The late evening and night, brings with it the perfect temperature to be more proactive.

That's when I would do more household chores, to really get up top of things and improve my living space as well, instead of just dreaming about it.

Once that is done, I would have time for me, just me. Time to write, to sing, to play, to create. To get down on paper all the things I wish to achieve. I have been talking about doing another vision board, but I still haven't made the time for it.

If I didn't need to sleep, well then I would all the time in the world. I am certain that i could use it all and I welcome the opportunity to be bored sometimes, as that is something I rarely get to experience as a single mama.

At the moment I feel like I am chasing my tail sometimes, never quite getting done what I really would like done. I do love that sense of achievement you get, when you see a project through from the beginning to the end in a relatively short amount of time, instead of it being stretched over weeks or even months.

This is my repsonse, to the following question from the latest Weekend Engagement Concept........

Imagine you never had to sleep, what would you do with the extra time you gained? List some the things and explain why you’d do them and how the extra time would impact your life.

There are other questions to choose from, but this one resonated with me the most, cos I really would like, just a little bit more time, in my life. A life without sleep, oh the things I could do.