My first thought was what would I like to do if I had free time, but that sentence is dangerously close to making the forbidden joke about having none.

I suppose I generally work my leisure time into my other time.  I’ve been listening to audio books any chance I get.  Usually in the kitchen while cooking or cleaning or making lunches for the next day, but I sometimes take my audio books with me into the kids bedrooms while I tidy up or into my bedroom while I get dressed and make the bed.  I never just sit and listen.

All of my TV watching happens while folding laundry or feeding a baby.  Since putting Ila to bed earlier, I haven’t kept up with my shows as well since I’m trapped in my chair for less time while the kids are in bed.  I can never just sit and watch TV, I get ancy (sp?) that I should be doing something productive.  If I had time to do whatever I pleased, I wouldn’t be in front of the TV.

I used to have some time when I picked Isaac up for school each day.  All of the kids were trapped in their seats and I couldn’t do any housework.  I would often get the mail right before leaving so that I could sort mail while I waited, but by the end of the school year I started using that time as my phone call time.  Krista always knew that if the phone rang and it was close to 1:00, that it was probably me.

If I get a moment or two to sit down during the day, I usually check my email, Google reader, and Facebook.  I sometimes check them from my phone while feeding Ila in the living room.  I rarely do more than that during the time the kids are awake. 

Once the kids are in bed, I have a little more freedom over what I do, but I still have a list of chores in my head each night.  I like to write about things so blogging has become an important “free time”activity.  I love pictures so I sort and upload them in the evenings, but to be honest, it almost seems more like a chore these days.

I used to enjoy scrapbooking.  I don’t have enough kid free time to get to it anymore and it’s not something I want to leave out because of the danger that it would get destroyed.  I have told myself that right now I just need to collect things and take lots of pictures and one day I’ll have the time to compile it all.  I do my best to keep a record of memories through blog and through my funny-things-kids-say log.  I also use Facebook sometimes to type up something amusing the kids say and I’ll go through my old status updates and copy them into my log later.

I do like to organize, but I don’t know if that can be counted under the category of free time.

Some of my favorite things to do are spending time with family.  I love to sit and talk for hours with my mom or Krista.  I enjoy playing games, not console or computer games.  I like card games or the type you play in a group.  Playing games always makes me think if my Grandma O’Bryant because she loved to play games. 

If I was given a few hours to do anything that I wanted to, I think I’d want to spend it taking one of my kids out for ice cream or playing a game with one of them.  The thing I crave the most and don’t get enough time doing is spending time with my kids one-on-one.  I honestly can’t imagine ever getting enough of this.  

Zach thinks I’m boring sometimes because I don’t have grand dreams of things like sailing the seas on my own yacht or any real hobbies that interest me.  I think I’m a fairly boring straight forward person.  What I like the very most is spending time with family and being a mom.