Trying to Prioritize My Life

I'm a 30 year old wife and mother of one. I spend the majority of my waking hours chasing my beautimous daughter around the house and trying to remember what day of the week/month it is. Being a housewife with a one year old and a husband who's job is quite different from the normal 9-5, the days of the week/month have little effect on me with the exception of a few important dates that are brilliantly noted in my cell phone with an appropriate reminder so that if I do forget, I am easily reminded. Some would say that I live the life of Riley but I say to do that you need a full time nanny to be at your beckon call. I don't really want a nanny to take over parenting full-time as I love spending time with my daugther but it's the four sad, long, equid faces that I see staring at me over the fence that I long to spend some time with. Maybe an hour or two per day? I long to be able to watch the horses learn in the ways that I use to. I long to feel the reins in my hands and the power beneath me. I long to not feel like a horrid horse owner. My horses are far from starving and neglected but their fitness has not been a priority for some time. My beautiful stallion sits and waits to be saddle broke and shown as does my young gelding. My old guy is tired of being the one ridden because he's simply the safest for me to let my darling daughter ride (with me, of course).

The list of prioroties is endless. I want to be a good wife, mother, horse owner, dog owner, person, etc. I want to be successful in life and maybe one day I'll do a blog on my version of successful. I want the joy of riding with my daughter and husband and our other future child. I want to work out every day and feel the sweat and the aches associated with the workout. I need to work on my prioritization because lately, it seems that sleep wins out over the exercise and the baby and the desire to stay roasty-toasty overcome the need to work the horses. Now, I'm not saying that I'd leave my daughter by herself for any length of time but hubby can be home for quite a stretch and I could certainly take advantage of it! Also, we have a great friend who lives with us who would happily watch her for an hour or two. I have no excuses. I guess I'm just a pansy.