How much is too much?

Now that fall is approaching fast ...sniff sniff...so are the afterhours activities.

The boys want to be in hockey this fall. Well, first of all they need to learn to skate! Aaron and I signed them up last fall for lessons and they were almost as painful as watching Wahmber cry her freaking eyes out all night on BB8. (But that's a whole other story, now isn't it?) So, Thing One and Thing Two will be learning to skate Tuesday evenings.

Mommy will be stamping her heart out on 1 Wednesday and 1 Thursday night a month and also enjoying her 1 or 2 Friday nights of Bunco.

Daddy will be playing hockey, gawd only knows when, but it'll be late enough that we can still take the boys to their lessons.

So, getting full circle back to the point of this post - what is too much? How many activities should a 4 and 5.5 year old partake in? One night/week or two nights/week or one night & one daytime weekend class?

The boys would also love to do swimming again but the classes are Mon & Wed and I don't want to push it with activities on 3 school nights. And with Aaron's "wonderful" schedule (insert super dramatic eye roll here) he works 5 of the 8 Saturdays for the weekend program so I'd be on my own.

I'd also like to explore Beavers for Joseph and see if he's interested at all in it. But once again, would it be too much organized activity and not enough random activity.

Does anyone out there know what I mean? I don't want to overload but want them to get the most out of these opportunities too.