An Unequal Balance

"There just isn't enough hours in the day."

How many times have we heard this saying?  How many times have we thought or said this ourselves?
I feel quite convicted when I say or think this.  God has given me 24 hours in a day and it's up to me to use them wisely.  That is where the problem lays, for myself anyways. 
If I'm feeling like my walk with the Lord is slipping, I spend hours studying God's Word, looking through every Christian- Bible based book I have, sometimes researching certain topics online.  If I want my children to get the 100% top-notch education that they deserve, then I am spending much of my time researching and preparing on top of the time I am spending teaching them.  If I want a clean home, I neglect schooling and spent every waking hour running up and down the stairs, sweeping, mopping, dusting, folding, and picking up.  If I want to have a social life, my husband feels neglected because I am asking him to stay with the girls on the few evenings that he is actually home when we could be together as a family.
On top of all that, I just want to read.  Actually, I'd prefer to be laying in a lounge chair or hammock in 87* weather somewhere tropical while reading, if I were to get technical. 
I love to read anything Christian fiction- except mystery.  I hadn't read much of anything the past 2 years while trying to stay on top of pleasing the Lord, my husband and my family.  This summer, my sister passed down a book that I devoured.  It really wasn't the best book, a little predictable to say the least, but it served it's purpose.  After that I went to the library and found a book myself.  Since then, I can't stop reading.  The crazy thing is, all I am reading is Amish fiction.  I really don't know what my fascination is with the Amish. 
I love their simplistic lifestyles, not that I would ever want to go without today's modern technology, I love how their life is centered around God (although not from a salvation through grace standpoint), family and working hard.  That is my personal goal!  The result in all this reading has left us with no time for tv.  Other than a few shows like Andy Griffith, I Love Lucy, or Leave it to Beaver, there really isn't anything on tv worth watching. 
I left Emily home with her daddy one evening earlier this week and came home to her watching a movie.  I exploded- literally.  I handled it completely wrong, but I got my point across to both her and Jay-- TV BAD.  Never mind the fact that they had spent a chunk of the time I was gone playing a board game, I was upset that it was almost 9 pm and she needed a shower and to clean her room. 
I think all this goes along with the book Emily is appropriately reading The Great TV Turnoff by Beverly Lewis. 
So why do I feel like there isn't enough time in the day to get everything accomplished?  Because I want to neglect it all and READ!  Just thinking of a week in November when we are on a cruise ship sailing to the Western Caribbean, reading a good book on my private balcony with the sound of waves and smell of salt water is making me giddy.
Ach, back to reality. I must get back to the things at hand which at this moment is 7th and 4th grade grammar.