How Much is Too Much?

My daughter is a social butterfly! It isn't too surprising seeing that her father is the exact same way. She LOVES to get involved and do things. Currently she is on a sports team {hopefully to end in the next two weeks} and the Future Business Leaders of America club at her school AND she goes to youth group. Not only does she have extra-curricular things, she is in the advanced classes at school. {Advanced means more work.} For the last four weeks they have been doing a project where they had to create a business and sell the product. The product she chose was cookies.

{Can you guess what we are doing tonight?}

When she is not doing something sport, school, or church related she likes to have sleepovers.

She is bright, ambitious, loving, and full of energy…but Mom is not {full of energy, that is}! I am sooooo grateful that she has the ability to organize and succeed in all her activities, but I am finding it all very wearing on me. I try soooo hard to get organized so that she is able to do the things she needs, but I also have another child in sports and a toddler. My only day off during the week where we have NOTHING planned is on Mondays {sure makes for long weekends}.

Now you'd think with my little rant I'm a single parent, but I'm not. The rub is that my wonderful, darling hubby is just as involved in activities as she is. I find it comical when he gets frustrated with all her activities. I finally had to point to him one day that he was getting huffy because it was interfering with his social schedule.
Looking back during that stage-of-life I did do a sport, but that was all. I went to a small private school that didn't offer a lot of club activities. I didn't do sleepovers because my parents were HIGHLY overprotective and did not trust too many people. They also worked a LOT and I had to be home helping with the chores and with my brother.

Did I resent it?

Yes, many times. I remember my 7^th grade year being the most depressing period of my life. I do not want any of that for her, but I want her to be able to balance her choices.

We have been working on figuring out what she enjoys most and what she can leave behind. So I wonder how much is too much? Is it when it's too much for the parent or the child?