Snap to it, baby!
Just a few days ago when I wrote this entry about keeping your family and kids on a schedule I was trying to work out my own choices of late. But, just a few days later I’m doubting my own words. Today, for example I was was all whiney about how it was a bad day and I was tired and WAH! I had a bad day.
We had a busy weekend and took a trip to a baseball game in Baltimore yesterday for Father’s Day so naturally, I was tired today. Monday is usually a tough day for me; recovering from the weekend, alone again because Marc is back at work, no plans yet for the week but still a long TO-DO list that I am ignoring. And, Noah woke me up a few times last night. There, I established legitimate tiredness. Why do we feel we need to defend ourselves and explain our tired? That’s a whole other entry for sure!
Bad storms were in our afternoon forecast so naturally I used that as an excuse not to go outside for a walk-jog with the dog and the baby. After a long day in the house of not really getting dressed, not showering, and just operating on a three hour cycle of feed baby-change baby-sleep baby-check email-eat a snack-cuddle with baby-watch more television- I grew a little irritable and that led to some anxiety over my lack of ambition to get off my fat ass.
After I put Noah to bed I got to thinking that maybe, maybe trying to keep a tighter schedule might do me good. It might allow me to have the exercise time I know that I need. It might actually be better for me to eat at certain times of the day rather than when I get hungry and risk skipping meals and having a lunch that involves dipping the spoon into the peanut butter jar and then covering that heap of delicious nutty smoothness with healthy raisins (WHAT? They are high in iron).
NEW GOAL: Get on a damn schedule. Don’t stress it just try to find some natural rhythm to the day and possibly even get a shower and exercise, but not in that order.
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