Sunday Update: Reading, Sports, Sleep

I had to use my time log to remind me what happened this week.  A lot!  The twins dropped their 10:30am feed, so I am now free to roam the world from 7am to 3:30pm.  I used this freedom to go for a 6 mile hike with a friend on Wednesday while the two big kids were at camp. Andy took a day of annual leave to watch the babies. I told Andy it was the longest time I've been away from children (6 hours!) since before the twins were born.  He said that I spent at least 8 hours with no kids while I was in labour, so that also counted as a Rachel day too.

My dad is currently visiting so I have another person to witness the chaos that is twin life.  My apple watch tells me I stand an average of 16 hours a day.  That sounds about right.  We took Isaac to a museum, we failed to find parking at multiple cafes, and now we are looking forward to a few days of kid fun before he heads back to California.  

Reading

I am currently reading and LOVING Sandwich by Catherine Newman

For whatever reason I couldn't find this on Libby so I got an actual copy from my library.  It's got the UK cover of course, which is... weird.  I like the US cover better

Sports

Oh what a week! No real consistency with anything BUT I've done a lot of things I enjoy

Monday: 20 Minute Run, 30 minute Peloton Full Body strength, 10 minute stretching.

Tuesday: 30 minute Pilates with Kristen McGee

Wednesday: 6 mile hike. 1 hour bouldering at the climbing gym pm

Thursday: 1 hour Core and Cardio gym session with gym buddy. 

Friday: Watching kids and babies all day

Saturday: 30 minute Peloton full body strength, 10 minute postnatal Rehab, 5 minutes stretching 

The highlight of the week was definitely going to the climbing gym.  It was so fun to do bouldering again! I used to go climbing with Andy when we first met.  I was never a very good climber but I was always a very enthusiastic climber.  I would love to get back into climbing (of the indoor, bouldering variety.  I am too old and have too little time to faff around on rocks)

Sleep

My time log says 7.2 hours of sleep a night.  BUT, most of my sleep is consecutive now, which is great.  The kids have been exhausted from life, which has meant early bedtimes (7pm) and the babies are being their usual great bedtime babies.  

Now is probably the bedtime era I will look back on fondly in the future.  Except for the part where we spend an hour and a half putting kids to bed and tidying the house every evening. I might not look fondly back on that.