I Don't Work

For me there are "times of year" that dictate what I do. Do you find this to be so with your life?
For example in the spring my main focus, in addition to regular housekeeping and family responsibilities, is working outside, getting the garden ready for planting, cleaning up the yard and flower beds, moving/dividing perennials, and planting annuals. These activities carry over to our church because I am in charge of the outdoor flower committee which sees to the maintenance of the church grounds, not mowing but the annual and perennial flowerbeds. During this time also our youngest son comes home from college the beginning of May. It is always a bit of a task to get the returning ones moved in a settled again.
Right of the heels of Spring are a number of summer events. For the past few summers I have found myself involved with a number of church activities, weddings and anniversaries. I decorate for these things. The weddings in particular take a lot of time. In addition, this summer I initiated a program for teenage girls. This ran for 6 weeks and garnered a fair amount of my time.
Fall is consumed with outdoor clean up and producing a DVD for our local high school football team. From August until the beginning of December this defines my life. My husband, eldest son and I go to and tape all the games. I take that into post production and put together a film that shows the heart and soul of the team, coaches and their efforts over the course of the season. With our son and his family coming to help with the taping throughout the fall I find myself cooking and having additional housekeeping to do, sheets to change and wash, picking up to do, etc.
Usually January and February are quiet times of the year but last year I filmed and produced a DVD for the annual stockholders luncheon for the bank where my husband works. That project took me from January through the middle of April. I will be doing another one for the bank in 2008. In fact filming begins Jan.6th!
Then there is Christmas. Christmas occupies much of the rest of the year. By the time the presents are all opened, the cookies eaten, the Christmas tree is taken down and ornaments and decorations put away it has been a full year!
Add to these things the production of a wedding video, and two small video projects one for family and one for our church, plus travel to San Antonio TX, Amelia Island, Fl, two trips to Watertown, WI, and Los Angeles, CA and various other short trips to visit family andyou have a fairly busy year for someone who doesn't work!