clock watching!!

Is it just me or does anyone else feel like they spend their lives checking the time?

I live my life governed by my watch and heaven help me if i forget to put it on in the morning.  I feel completely in a tizz if its not there, securely in place on my wrist!

My children have fairly active social lives - swimming, dancing, rugby, play dates - and then of course there is school and nursery.  So I find myself forever watching the time........ ' right, it takes so long to get there, then i will have to leave by 'x'  time to be back to pick up No1 son from school, then there should just be enough time to get to the library before getting back home for dinner at 'y' then out to swimming for 'z'.

I am slightly anal in the fact that I hate being late for anything. I feel that its a sign of rudeness and if you have committed to being somewhere at a certain time then you should be there.  But of course its a near on impossibility if you have children, animals or my luck!!!

And it only takes the smallest thing to start that domino track that will lead you down the road of 'Sorry I'm late, something came up!'
 Murphys law stipulates that if you are late out of the door, you are guarenteed to get stuck behind a ninety year old driving at 20 miles an hour, there will be no parking spaces, you wont have the right money for the machine, and one or other of the children will hurt themselves in some way that needs at least ten minutes to calm and soothe

I find myself checking the time when I am talking on the phone, when the kids are in the bath, when I am sitting on the loo for goodness sake. In fact its becoming a bit of an obsession.   Made worse by the fact I have a husband who is so laid back in time keeping that he is almost in a coma!!  He regularly starts a project like vaxing the carpet or changing light switches about ten minutes before we are ment to be leaving!!  His reply to my ever bubbling pot of OCDness is 'relax, it will be fine, I will be two minutes'

And now, do my children take after their organised, on time mummy?  Hell no, in answer to the 'are we ready yet' question to darling diva this morning I was greeted with the response ' not yet mummy, two minutes, you relax'.     cheeky mare!!!!!!!!