Literally Not Enough Hours in the Day

Weekends will be meant for DD2 to sleep in. She leaves the house at 6:40 and between activities and homework, she is not going to sleep until midnight. She made the decision last year to nix sports out of her schedule, but several of her friends are still playing volleyball, soccer, running team cross country or tennis and are in show choir, one of whom is also in a second jazz ensemble like DD2. That friend also is one of the Wednesday night volleyball refs. I cannot figure out when they are getting home work done. DD2 has violin as well, her 0 hour class plus a weekly private lesson, though not nearly as many hours as extracurricular sports. No game or meet days, thankfully, though there is an extra concert now and again. 

This is of her choice. We have mandated that she must take a science and a math even when elective all four years of high school, but the type and degree of difficulty was her decision. This morning she will be about 10 minutes late for her orchestra practice-she just couldn't get up and out any faster. As one teacher told us at the open house, junior year is the worst. They will be tired, cranky, over committed, and stressed about school and life. But, she added, no one has died because school is hard, and she remind them this as well. We'll cut her slack where it can be cut, and be firm where we have a duty of care. We've been through this twice before with one over achiever, and one who decided his junior year to pick up the pace. They are both just fine now, a decade + later.