Need advice, please!

Hey everyone,

I sure do love the world of blogging, especially when I need advice. I am so glad we are all here to help each other out!
I know I have seen the odd post about this, but I need to hear from you!
Are all you mom’s super busy? Do you feel there are not enough hours in a day?
I am going to be completely honest here and share with you what our week looks like, then i would love any ideas and tips you can offer.

Monday –
Little G here from 8-4
9-11:45 Montessori work with Snow White & G
Supper with grandma 5-7
Hubby Judo 8-10
(I usually try to do my planning for the week on this evening)
Tuesday-
Snow White French Preschool 9-1 (20 minutes drive each way)
Little G here from 1:30 – 7:00
2-4 Montessori work
Wednesday –
Mini-Franco fun classes for me & Snow White & Belle from 9:30 – 11:30 (20 min drive each way)
6:45-8:30 awana clubs for Snow White
Thursday –
Snow White French Preschool 9-1 (20 minutes drive each way)
Little G here from 1:30 – 8:15
2-4 Montessori work
Friday –
Little G is here from 8 – 4
9-11:45 Montessori work
5pm We go out to visit friends or have company over

One Sunday a month we spend with my parents, one Sunday a month with Prince Charming’s parents

(The girls also have swimming lessons each winter and dance classes in spring)

One of my dear friends (Thanks so much C!) sent me this in an e-mail awhile back. I found it quite encouraging. Here is what she wrote:
“The most important thing is to get to enjoy your children…just remember, Dr. Maria Montessori did not get to enjoy her own son until he was an adult.

The children she worked with were orphan children and she made their world very peaceful and lovely for them, but because of the times, she did not get to kick back and have fun with her own son as a baby, toddler, or child. Nor to she get to marry the man of her dreams.
She did some fabulous things but never got to have the pleasure of being surrounded by her own little family.

But the reverse of that was true, too…what she did for the orphan children was her work.

It became her life calling, but she did not have to juggle trying to do things in a household while trying to have a beautiful prepared environment with her own little ones running around and wanting her attention.

She did not have to clear the table she used for a presentation to make room for dinner plates and glasses. She did not have to check on a roast, put in a load of laundry, pick up the dry cleaning, take a child to the dentist, feed the dog, bathe the kids, strip and wash the sheets, re-make beds, fold laundry, clean out the fridge., take her dog for a walk, answer the phone, check email, write a blog, try to repair a piece from a puzzle that the puppy has just chewed, send off packages, make flight plans, comfort her own children when they are scared in a new surrounding, organize a field trip, drop off things to Goodwill, go to her husband’s job to pick him up from work, talk to her husband about when t-ball practice is, pack for a family vacation, go shopping for clothes for her kids as they have shot up overnight, etc.
She had one main focus and purpose and we all can thank her for all that she did…but our lives are much more complicated and require sooooooooooo much more multi-tasking.”

Now my question is, how do you all do it?
When can i do Montessori lessons with little Belle?
helping others
housework
laundry
shopping
cooking
planning
preparing work/lessons
organizing
husband/wife time
family time
friend time
me time
one on one time with the girls
going to library
running errands
volunteer work
blogging time
everything else…

Maybe this does not seem like much to all you super Montessori mommy’s out there, but sometimes i feel like pulling all my hair out!!!!!!!!

Advice? Please?