It's my busyness

Regardless of how I may aspire to ease my busyness as seen in the post below or other grand aspirations, I never quite seem able to put it into practice in my own life... Take the last week as an example...
Wednesday - Worked till 5:00, ran home and grabbed a bite to eat then off to AWANA, finally home and quiet by 9:00
Thursday - Worked till 5:00 then to Circuit City to see about fixing Carol's laptop screen which one of the boys accidentally kicked and it blew out, then 25 minutes north to friends Joy and Joe for supper then home and quiet by 10:00
Friday - Worked till 5:00 then had a board meeting and that ran till after 10 p.m. Helped clean up so I didn't get home till about 10:30 but Alex was at a sleep over and needed me to bring his clothes and a movie so I didn't really get home and settled till nearly midnight...
Saturday - Up early for Christmas program practice and then spent the early part of the day cleaning the house. If I remember Saturday evening was a more quiet evening... but it's a bit fuzzy.
Sunday - After church we ran out for lunch and errands and didn't get home till nearly five. Sunday evening is also a bit fuzzy but i think I vegged...
Monday - Came home and cleaned the house a bit, began cleaning up the yard till supper. After supper Carol went out to work on school stuff so I settled the kids then worked on my office redecoration project till after 10 p.m.
Tuesday - After work I came home and did some more leaf clean up then had a bite of supper then went out for French club... After French club I stopped at the store for Carol. When I got home I did some laundry and cleaning and settled down about 10 p.m.

And so it goes... I'm not complaining, but I don't know how without just giving up on life...