Slow Parenting...yeah right!

My husband and I both have blackberries and we recently learned we can share calendar events with either, preventing what was becoming the normal "you didn't tell me about this-yes I did" argument. I send him appointments for the kids and when I am invited to showers or events I let him know about them.  Now he is commenting to me that he gets notifications from me all the time and he never realized we had this much going on.
                                         
I was reading an article about Slow Parenting and realized from sending him all our events that we are no where near that end of the spectrum with our children.  My son is 3 years old and is participating in 3 activities right now.  The first is cherub choir, which is every Wednesday night and they sing in church once a month.  The second is soccer which starts up this Saturday and will go every Saturday until Memorial Day weekend.  The third activity he starts next Tuesday and is swimming lessons.  I hesitate to add another activity but I really want him to know a little bit more since he will spend a lot of the summer over at his aunts in their in-ground pool.  They even have a class for my daughter if I want it for her.

His weekly appointments is in addition to the extra stuff we do, mostly on weekends.  This weekend is a bridal shower, next is a baby shower, and the following is the march for babies and possibly a birthday party for a cousin.  If I didn't have my blackberry right now I would be completely lost on where I am supposed to be when.  I got a headache just typing all that! 

Maybe it is just the time of year.  It was a long winter and we spent most of it worried about our daughter so now we are overcompensating by doing TOO much.   I always told myself that my children will only be allowed to participate in one activity at a time, maybe 2 if one is academic and the other is sports/physical. I am obviously not living up to that standard.  


When I was a child I was not in a lot but it was because we couldn't afford it. I WANTED to do stuff but couldn't.  I turned out okay I think.  


I know I am going to have to change a few things up in a couple of years when my daughter is old enough to participate in stuff because there is no way I can pay for or shuttle them both to multiple activities all the time!