Life as a New Mom: Making Time to Take Time [PHOTOS]

It's been a while since I had a moment to mommy-blog, but I haven't had the time. I haven't had the time for anything lately, and I'm stressing over it hard.

How do you handle the busy days? How do you deal when EVERY DAY is a busy day?

I'm kind of a workaholic. I love what I do, but working in radio keeps my schedule booked. I have something I need to do or an event I need to attend literally every day of the week. I've been feeling guilty lately because I've been so insanely busy that I haven't had a lot of free time--which means my family has been eating a lot of takeout and I've been SO, SO TIRED.

I feel like my daughter (who is FOUR now, btw) isn't getting the quality time with me that she deserves, so my husband and I decided to make this weekend all about her. I had to work Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and I really, really (like more than anything) wanted to spend my free time in yoga pants on the couch watching Netflix--but I didn't.

We took Dolly to the West Alabama State Fair Friday night. Saturday night we went to Disney on Ice in Birmingham, and Sunday, we hit up a local pumpkin patch. It was a ridiculously busy weekend--but we had so much FUN. Sure, I am feeling sleep-deprived today. I'm hoping to schedule a "me" day in the future (during which I do absolutely NOTHING and relish every precious moment of being lazy), but I'm so happy that I made the choice this weekend to spend time with my family.

I don't mean this post to come across as some dumb humblebrag-- I understand what it's like to not have time to even think, so TRUST ME when I say that I'm not judging the parents out there who are too exhausted to do anything out of the ordinary. I'm just sharing the lesson I learned this weekend: sometimes you have to make the time to take the time--and it's worth every minute.

Also: my husband carved our pumpkin and it's THE COOLEST. Dolly wanted NO PART of pulling out the "pumpkin guts," and it was hysterical.