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Last Sunday Update included the line
"Hopefully an early bedtime and an early alarm and kids sleeping through the night will afford me a morning workout tomorrow."
I did go to bed early, after a bout of Isaac sickness. And then I woke up with my own sickness bug at 10:30pm. There was no morning workout. Isaac and Lilah were both off School. It was Andy's at-home day but four kids is a lot, so while I did nap over baby naps I'm not sure one should condense a day of "lying in bed illness" into two 1.5 hour naps.
On Tuesday it was back to work, which was good because on Thursday the nanny was ill (which makes sense) and so I adjusted my 7.5 hour job to the following totally reasonable workday:
8-10am
1:30-2:30pm
3:00-4:30pm
7:30-9:30
And on Friday I of course had my childcare day. So all in all, I condensed my 30 hour workweek into 19.5 hours and then I spent 51.5 hours on active parenting & watching small kids. The balance is currently not in my favour.
I have started tracking time I spend with my kids in my time log. It's currently about 40-50 hours a week. I forget how much time logging reinforces that I don't have to feel bad about wanting a break from these kids that I love so much.
Onwards and upwards!
Reading
I finished Ministry of Time. It was fine. I think if you were into world building and time travel the narrative might be annoying. But if you're a simple minded person like me then it was a fine read. It definitely wasn't a WOW book for me.
I had a few books through on Libby and started reading Starter Villain. It's silly.
- Tuesday
- 35 minute Peloton scenic ride (through oregon - it's so pretty!
- Thursday
- 30 Minute 90's ride with Ally Love (Peloton)
- 5 Minute cool down ride with Ally Love (Peloton)
- 20 Minute arms and shoulders with Rebecca Kennedy (Peloton)
- Friday
- 45 Minute HIIT and Hills with Robin Arzon (Peloton) I only did this class because for the first time ever I got on Peloton and saw one of my friends was doing a class and I followed her there! I still hope to find San online doing a ride someday...
- Saturday
- 30 Minute New Tracks Ride with Emma Lovewell
A frog with an eye coming out of its bottom sounds pretty scary to me! It is interesting to see what our imaginations do when we are asleep! So, it sounds like (maybe) you guys are all over the illness, which (maybe) means that this week will be more of a "normal" routine? Hopefully the nanny is feeling better because yeah, I think you need her to come back!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kyria! Yes fingers crossed we are over all the sicknesses for a week or so. I love routine, as loosely defined as that is right now.
DeleteAnd yes, it was hard to not laugh when the dream was explained, but I bet it would be scary!
The rest of November is good for me. Not too, too busy - just dinner for Thanksgiving, the four of us plus two close friends, then it's L's 7th birthday, so we will do a chocolate cake and some presents, then it's Black Friday, so I have my eye on this one Bernardo winter coat hoping it will go on sale. Apart from that, not that much :)
ReplyDeleteAww fun! When I found out I was pregnant i was excited because I really wanted a November birthday kid. Unfortunately because of twins they were born at 38 weeks which was October. November is such a good birthday month!
DeleteI hope the coat goes on sale!
I cannot imagine how to handle 4 kids this young. It's such a handful – while you work full time.
ReplyDeleteI stumbled over the sentences: I think if you were into world building and time travel it would be annoying.
What do you mean? Is it that bad that you are into that kind of stuff it is annoying because so flawed? Am I weird that this intrigues me even more?
That is a terrible sentence! Sorry. I meant that if you read this type of book often, and liked to follow the "science" of time travel, you would probably find this book annoying. People who read sci fi and time travel and think about how it works always impress me because I am terrible at spotting flaws in world building books.
DeleteI agree about Ministry of Time, it's not a big dense sci-fi book, but I'm not really into those anyway, so I liked it. I thought it was a fun read.
ReplyDeleteI hope everyone is feeling better, illness with little kids is not very restful. I think working full time with 4 kids that young would be a LOT (and it sounds like you are in the middle of a LOT right now). Hang in there is all I can think to say.
Haha yes - Ministry of TIme was fun because I don't normally read time travel, and often it is really big and dense which is why I don't read it.
DeleteThank you! I hope to post less "OMG SO MANY KIDS" soon and more... of whatever I used to think about .
That all sounds really hard. Small adjustment to one sentence might help - this is your life *right* now. Meaning, not forever. As you know better than any of us, this shitshow is always changing.
ReplyDeleteRegarding Thanksgiving, FWIW, I have been feeling really meh about it for the past few years. It seems we are between generations on this holiday in my family, where it's my generation's turn to take it on. But I haven't felt up for it, so it ends up being small and disappointing in comparison to memories of large, extended-family gatherings of yore. Maybe next year... We are tentatively planning a nature walk in a local canyon with the kids that day, and possibly a few adult couples over for "pies and sides," but that second part is really just an idea with a tagline and 9 days is not enough to pull that idea off, slant-rhymed tagline notwithstanding.
In conclusion, i love you and you're doing so many things and lots of them are hard and you're raising a family of great kids. I'm glad you're finding snippets of Rachel Time, even if it's mostly peleton-related right now. Again, that's the mantra: right now, not forever. Looking forward to Dec/Jan seems like a wise move!
-rachel