You sound like you have plenty on your plate. Family obligations come first. Your mother needs your time right now and even though your grandson spends considerable time away from home everyday, his needs must be on your mind.
Quilting should be a time just for you and should be relaxing and fun. Since I live alone, (I'm a little old lady, almost your mother's age), I have none of your responsibilities. When I want to carve out more time to quilt, I just put off stuff that I don't enjoy doing and just open a can of soup for dinner, or make an uncomplicated salad for lunch and quilt happily away. My sewing room is a total mess, but I decided that the best way to organize it is to make a bunch of quilts and donate them. That way I decrease my stash, use up those spare pieces of batting, and shrink the stacks, bins, totes, shelves of fabric scraps. That eliminates all the time to organize.
Last edited by SillySusan; 10-13-2018 at 12:00 AM.