Planning for spontaneity

I realized today as I had to postpone a visit with a friend  that there is currently no time in my life for spontaneity.  At 10am I couldn't just drop stuff and go visit.  Animals next door had to be fed, men at the office needed to be fed, Miss Pink would need to be picked up at 3 and I've got laundry demanding attention.  These days my life has to be carefully planned so that I don't drop balls.  So I'm juggling today in order to visit tomorrow.  I can make breakfast ahead of time, get up early to feed animals, prepare lunch for the office tonight and maybe do some extra house chores this afternoon.
Life cannot end just because we're fostering and doing other crazy things.  Instead, I seek ways to prepare us for the activities that take our time.  It's not always easy, but there's a certain sense of accomplishment when my plans succeed.  Being a stay at home mom is far from an easy task.  I never really imagined that my life could be this full of important things.  I once heard a woman speak on ordering your life; cutting out all those silly activities that you don't really like or need to do anyway. I had a few things that I decided to let go.  It was good for me to learn how to say 'no' to things.  Sometimes even things that I wanted to do but had no time or money for.  Now, though, I have lots of important things that I need and want to do and even they must be ordered.  As we begin moving out of our 'new child' phase of fostering I really want to remember how to pick up relationships and activities that are still important to me and figure out how to order them into my busy life.  My husband and I have been able to have time together again.  I've talked with my sister a couple of times on the phone.  I'm going to visit a friend tomorrow.  We had homegroup at our house last night (yep, everyone in our homegroup was willing to fill out background check forms so they could come over!  Great people).  We live a highly relational life.  We love living life with our friends.  Looking back over the last two months, that's been difficult to do at times.  Maybe, just maybe, we're learning how to get it done again.