Line a day journaling, yoga update, and also giant sandwiches.

Photo has nothing to do with post, but kids do love a shower crayon

I have a line day journal that I had filled out daily since 31st December 2020.  I feel it says a lot about my personality that I didn't start it on 1st January 2021, but instead went for 31st December.  This means that I am now in my final year of the 5 years.  On each page, above me, are 4 years of memories and I just need to fill in the 5th year.

And I am writing once every 3-4 days now.  And I am almost never reading the previous days.  There are blanks and I have almost no interest in continuing it.  Every day for the previous 4 years I would write an entry.  This year... I don't want to.

Here is the headline theme of my previous 5 years

2021: 6 month old year old and 2 year old at home during lockdown
2022: work/nursery, reemerging from covid
2023: Pregnant with twins
2024: newborn twins

I know I chose and wanted close-together kids but also reading my 5 year journal is not really nice.  Which is odd, because reading this blog which covers the same time period is sometimes nice!  And I feel like maybe it's odd that when I write a journal for me it's a bunch of complaining (I mean, it's legit complaining, but also complaining) or even worse is the entries that are *not* complaining but should be.  

For instance, April 28th 2021:

Lilly (6 months old) only woke at 10/12/3:30 & 6:30 but only had two feeds.  Yay but I'm still tired? Pubs are now opening for outdoor pre-booked drinks only, no food.

So... my curiosity at why I'm tired with that awful sleep schedule means that somehow that night of sleep was better than previous nights?  Also, I forget that the idea of buying a drink outside 14 months after covid started (4 months after vaccines) was new and exciting.  

Anyways, I am sort of excited for the next 5 year journal.  Maybe I need to do a better theme or writing prompt or something.  Also I will start it on January 1st next time rather than December 31st.

Yoga Update
As expected, my daily yoga practice finished the first day I couldn't get my daily yoga in.  Last week I got up at 5:15, got up to yoga at 5:35, and Nora woke up at 5:40am. I turned off yoga and haven't started it again.  Instead, I've been sleeping until nearly 6.  

The problem with my yoga practice (which I knew from time tracking) was that I went from averaging 7.5 hours of sleep a night to 6.5 hours of sleep a night.  Since I need more sleep than 6.5 hours I knew something was going to give. We have a guest visiting and it's half term holiday in school (in Wales schools finish for the summer in late July - very different than the US!) and so I'm spending all day with kids and evenings with guest and yoga or exercise is just not happening.  Oh well, there's always next week.

Big Family Benefits

One kind of satisfying thing about having such a big family is that food comes readily portioned for our group.  Earlier this week we packed a picnic.  Here is the sandwich I made for the kids and adults:

There was some cheese left, but not much.  Also, white bread and brie is a pretty good sandwich (we added chutney to the adult side)

Whenever we make pasta we just use a whole bag (they come in 500g bags here) so no portioning or weighing needed.

Do you do a line-a-day journal? Do you like it? Does it differ in tone and content from your blog? Would you find turning an entire baguette into a sandwich satisfying?