Saturday - Things that are working, things that are improving

I had the most wonderful day mountain biking yesterday.  It took a lot to plan and it was a lot of fun.  I have exactly one photo of me eating a post ride hot dog.

During the biking we thought of loads of FLOM (or family meetings) worthy life updates which I didn't record very well.  And by the time it was bedtime I was so tired we didn't really cover any of the things.  but the takeaway was that Andy and I are both up for more adventure and are aware this will be a slow start due to the number and ages of kids we have.

Also, I would like to take a moment for things that are working right now, since I feel I've recently started using this blog for things that are not working.

Things that are working

Having a big car.  We have a S-Max 7 seater and it is great.  It's from 2017 and is the newest car we have ever owned

Our two day a week nanny who is starting 4 days a week.  She is lovely and so good with the kids and so incredibly calm as a human.  It's great for me to see what an inherently calm person is like because I am not that and I could definitely learn.

Our kid patio

Things that are improving

Not eating dinner with the kids all the time.  Sometimes meals are better when we sit for kid meal and then adult meal.  My new plan is Mon-Thurs we feed kids first, then Fri-Sun we eat all together.  We will see if this works, mostly it means I need to be less hungry at 5:30 kid meal.

Waking up early in the morning.  I am a morning person. I started being an evening person because mornings and baby wakeups were chaos, but they are not as chaos now, and kids are generally sleeping until 6:30 these days.  The problem is, it's hard to switch from being an evening person to a morning person.  It's very easy to stay up later and much harder to go to bed earlier (on a day by day basis).  I'm not planning on being a "in bed by 9 every day" person, but 9:30-5am is 7.5 hours of sleep and I do want to aim for that 3 or 4 days a week.

The weather.  I don't have any impact of this but OMG does it make a big difference

Is anything distinctly "working" or "improving" for you right now?