Jan. 25th
47 days.
Today is a ROTARY DAY and We get the boys back! YAY! Speaking of Iceman, Destroyer and Bottomless pit, Cassie shares custody with her ex husband. The boys stay with us every other week. Mondays when its our week with the boys is amazing! The home Cassie and I have made is empty when the boys are not with us. Its a kind of quiet that we cannot explain. We love our time with the boys.
The balance between family, work and community time has to be equaled out. There are only 24 hours in a day and between 8am and 3pm the boys are in school. After school the boys are busy studying and doing homework for an hour. We allow them free time after that to do what ever they would like. Their #1 free time activity is a toss up between xbox or sports outside. The weather plays a contributing factor in that as well. For instance, if its cold, rainy or muddy the boys choose xbox. Dinner is prepared at 5:30pm and served at 6-6:15pm. The boys shower at 7pm and read until 8pm then bed time. Cassie and I have to balance everything around our routine for the boys. Such as, work, community service, grocery buying, appointments etc. Cassie and I both feel our success revolves around our routine, our strategy to use time efficiently.
My fiance told me this story that I am going to share with you. It's called "The Lesson of the Five Balls."
Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day, you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls — family, health, friends, integrity — are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. And once you truly understand the lesson of the five balls, you will have the beginnings of balance in your life~
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