This might be the longest amount of time I've ever gone without posting. Want to guess why? Yup, it's the oldest excuse in the book - I've been busy. Here's a little bit about what's been happening with me these last several weeks. Just me. No kiddos. (Sorry Mom, that means no new baby pics.)
I've been back at work right at a month now. The first couple of weeks back, the old brain was really rusty and it took some time to clear away the cobwebs. Add that to not getting enough sleep....well, I wasn't the most productive person in the world until I got back into the swing of it. Over the last few weeks, Cade's been sleeping more and I've been relearning my job more and I feel like I'm a good contributing member to the company again.
Sleep. I'm tired. It's the main reason I haven't been posting regularly. When I get a few moments at night (and I literally mean very few moments and only on occasion), pretty much the last thing I want to do is try and form a complete thought in writing form. If I have enough left in the tank to watch a brainless 30 minute show, maybe chat with my husband for a couple of minutes and slip on my pj's, I'm doing pretty good. I hope this area of my life is getting better. Cade seems to have taken a very good turn on sleeping (knock on wood) so I hope to be waking to tend to him less during the night. However, there's still another kid of mine causing issues. A furry one named Oliver.
My dear Oliver. I love him so. But, he's become a big problem between the hours of 4 and 6 am when he meows incessantly, jumps on the bed, walks over me, jumps down and repeats. When we weren't sure if he was on his last feline life or not, I didn't have the heart to lock him out of the room. My sweet boy has slept next to me for 16 years and I couldn't shut him out like that. Flash forward several months and the door has gotten shut in his face many times. Unfortunately, even that's not enough to drown out his cries. We're considering more drastic measures like locking him in a room downstairs but haven't taken them yet. I know he's still not feeling great so it's hard to be so tough on him. But, it's tough on me to be SOOO close to actually getting a decent night's sleep again that I might have to take those drastic measures. Poor Oliver.
Back to work talk. Other than learning my job again, I'm having to learn to get used to these long periods of time away from my kids. Monday's are the worst. After getting to see them over the weekend, it's serious withdrawal come Monday when I go for about 10 hours without hugging them. It often makes my weekends very much unproductive because I'm trying to catch up on snuggle time and fun time with them. I do still seem to be getting my bills paid on time though so priorities are pretty well in place.
On a work day, I pretty much only see the boys when we're getting ready in the morning and for about an hour to an hour and a half in the evening when we have dinner and then get the boys to bed. This means not only multitasking general child care with getting ready and dinner processes but juggling attention to 2 kids during that time. Most days, it makes me feel like only 1 child has managed to get any of my attention. It's definitely something I feel like I need to work on.
One of the main things I was looking forward to in getting back to work was getting back on a regular work out schedule. In the last 4 weeks, I've managed to join 1 personal training format gym and tour 2 other ones that I'm considering joining for general work out. I've also been visiting and acupuncturist regularly for a post partum ankle issue I've been having, going to regular doctor's check ups for the boys, had a few appointments regarding other personal business and taken a couple of vacation days for previously planned long weekends. That amounts to really only getting 2, maybe 3 work outs a week and maybe 1 walk with the boys on the weekend. Definitely not enough to get all these pounds off. However, the training I have been doing has been working but the pounds are coming off though a lot more slowly than I would like them to be. I'm optimistic that all the day time commitments I've been having are tapering off and I'll be able to focus on getting more exercise in during the weekdays. I've been really great on the diet\nutrition\calorie part now I just have to vamp up the work out part of the plan.
So that's me in a nutshell. Trying to balance it all and adjust to the new schedule. I think it's been going pretty well so far but that's not to say it's without it's challenging. I'm still having to focus on one day at a time. Right now I'm going to focus on getting to bed early so I can make it through the next day. Later folks!
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