It’s been 17 months since Ava showed up, and I haven’t yet figured out how she’s manipulating time the way she does.<\/p>\n
It’s a difficult thing to try to balance having a job that will provide for your family with having enough time left outside of said job to spend any time with said family.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems like I walk through the door at the office on Monday morning and walk out on Friday afternoon and no time has passed.<\/p>\n
So I started crunching some numbers.\u00c2\u00a0 Ava usually wakes up on “school days” around 6, on average.\u00c2\u00a0 We have to get out the door by 7:45 to get her to daycare and us to work.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s 105 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 We pick her up from daycare at 5, take her home for dinner and a bath, and put her to bed at 7:30.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s 150 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 We try very hard to maximize our time with Ava on the weekends, but she usually gets up and goes to sleep at the same times (and has a one-hour nap each day).\u00c2\u00a0 So, let’s say we see her for 25 hours on the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s a whopping 1,500 minutes.<\/p>\n
In a week, we see Ava for 1,755 minutes, or 29 hours and 15 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 A full week has 168 hours in it, minus the 49 hours we spend sleeping (if we’re lucky), so 119 hours.\u00c2\u00a0 It all boils down to the fact that we spend just under one quarter of our waking hours with our daughter.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a wonder she remembers us at all at the end of the week.<\/p>\n
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