Finding The Balance

In attempt to try and balance everything in my life right now I have been searching for ways to try and make our life easier.  Our schedule is so packed everyday, and so opposite that we need to find a way to be completely organized as a team in order to basically survive.  We have the mornings pretty much down, but when I run down my day this is what I want to accomplish:

1. Spend quality, uninterrupted time with Jack
2.  Have time for just John and I to hold each other and talk
3. Kick butt at work
4. Work out- necessity for stress relief
5. Eat well to feel good

Seems like a short list, but it is amazing how difficult it is to achieve everything sometimes.  Well I should say difficult to achieve 4 & 5, 1-3 are required to happen no matter what.  But 4 & 5 help me be better at everything else.  So how do we tackle all 5?

This is what we are doing and I would welcome ideas on what other people do to achieve their daily goals as I know for fact there are many other people out there that also struggle.

AM: JMS works out 5:30-6:30
- Nicole wakes up with Jack, feeds, dresses, plays until dad gets home
7:00AM I work out
John takes Jack to school

PM: We are still working on and it all comes down to the stress of dinner.  I hate thinking about dinner and worrying about putting a good meal on the table for our family.  I feel like I am always scrambling at the last minute to pull something together and it is always disappointing  to me.  So this week I bought a membership to the Fresh 20.  Basically gives you 5 easy, healthy recipes, with a list of groceries to buy at the beginning of the week.  I am hoping this eliminates the stress of dinner which cuts into my quality time with both John and Jack.  I will keep you posted on how it is.

Dinner is really the only hard part of the PM routine, the rest is easy we play, read, bathe, and rock.  Then John and I try to stick to our role of 15-20 minutes of uninterrupted talking before bed.  That time before turning in are some of the best of the day. 

This is all a work in progress, but I find I need to have something in place to make sure I am finding the balance.  Things have been so exciting yet so crazy lately that the ability to communicate, and be organized seems to be imperative to keeping our sanity.  Anyone else with me?