Jan 18 2012
The New Normal
I feel like life is kicking my butt these days. The nausea has lifted but the overwhelming tired feeling has remained. Will it ever go away? I have no idea. I think most people know that pre-kids, and even with 2 I’m a morning person. I used to wake up at 7am regardless of what day of the week it was. Even on vacation! With kids, it slowly crept up to 7:30-8am, which isn’t too bad. But right now my new normal is at least 8:30am and once on the weekend it was 9am. If I didn’t feel so guilty about leaving Mike alone with the kids (let alone getting them off to school and the fact that he has work too) I think I could easily stay in bed until 10am.
I even have the benefit of help – my parents are more than happy to take the kids to babysit for a while and have started having both kids to sleep over. I’ve taken advantage of this twice in the last week. But there has been a lot of events going on lately, ladies nights out, dinners with friends, Canucks games. So I’m still not feeling particularly rested. I really need to slow down, but with Mike’s birthday and Chinese New Year this weekend and Aly’s bday party coming up, that’s unlikely for another couple weeks.
We have at least gotten a lot accomplished at home in the last little while. We bought a bunk bed for the kids over the Christmas break and finally set it up this weekend. Aly’s bed and dresser went to my friend Priscilla’s to await use by her daughter Lexi. Aly is happily sleeping in the bottom bunk and at some point we will pick up another twin mattress and transition Gavin into the bottom bunk and she will go up top. At the same time, my parents decided to get rid of their really nice 5 piece bedroom set so we upgraded our dresser to a much nicer bigger one and the kids got a big armoire. All this extra storage space is very welcome! We’re slowly reorganizing and fitting things into these spaces.
Finally I finished our 2008 album (I had to wait a couple months to get Aly’s ultrasound slides developed and printed by Black’s – it took them forever!), ordered it and it arrived yesterday. I’m very happy with it. There is one photo that turned out pretty dark and one printing error (no biggie, a caption that was underlined that shouldn’t have been). I’ve got nothing but good things to say about Photobook. I have 3 more groupons to use up for 2009, 2010, and 2011. I have to work fast since the next one expires Feb 28! So I’m skipping up to 2011 since our photo production declined significantly last year with 2 kids on the move.
All in all, I have way more than I can handle at this point. So if you ever come by, excuse the state of our place, my bedraggled appearance, or my habit of yawning all the time. I really am that exhausted.
Once again, no photos…I will upload some at some point.































