Finding time with Little Ones

So often my husband and I are EXHAUSTED. He works a full time physically and mentally demanding job plus is in school full time, plus has two side businesses. I take care of little people all day, make sure the house is running, food is cooked plus I run my own business. We also have two special needs kids and one toddler which makes life more challenging. So how do we find time to communicate, find intimacy and personal time? The easy and not so easy answer is you have to make it. What makes this answer not so easy is that so often as parents we ignore ourselves it's so easy to get "caught up" in the day to day and just go through the motions of the day that change is difficult because we look at it as a new plan we have to implement. What makes it easy is that it's the answer that has been in the back of our minds for all along. So here are some ideas to help you make time with and without the little ones:

• Create a family "cool down" time where everyone either chills out in the family room and eats popcorn and watches a movie or a cool show. Or, our personal favorite Saturday morning everyone piles in our bed to snuggle and watch cartoons. This allows you to be close to your mate while spending quality time with your little ones.
• Have a couple's movie night. (we haven't done this one in a while hint to me). 
• Put kids to bed (they don't have to go to sleep just not be in your space)
•  Pick a movie make  and some grown up snacks, have your drink of choice 
• just sit back and enjoy each others company.
• Here's a crazy one do yard work together, wash the cars together. These you can do with or without the kids. You'd be surprised on how much fun you can have being playful in water or dirt and getting clean and dry and be oh so much fun.
• Cook together. It's a great time to be intimate and playful. Stop kicking your mate out of the kitchen. 
• When the kids are in school I take a day and meet my hubby for lunch at his job. He loves the surprise, he loves to show me off and he loves a free lunch. :-)

Remember a parent is just one of your titles not the only title. Although our children need much of our time, love, and attention remember that you and your mate need that also to thrive. 

Those are just a few, tell me some of yours.

Until Next Time,

Peace, Love & Charm

Charmaine

*BTW how are you doing on this weeks lesson? Would love to hear that many of you have stepped outside of your comfort zone and rekindled your sex life.*

"If you can't love yourself, how in the Hell you gone love somebody else" ~ RuPaul