Back on Schedule

I have been very sick lately, even had an inpatient stay at the hospital and a minor surgery. This doesn't really account for the lack of posts on my blog, but it sounds good. I have been off my schedule since then, sleeping late and taking as long of naps of possible. I even skipped my volunteer shifts for three or four weeks in a row because of not feeling well and just needing that extra sleep.

Now that things have calmed down, I am feeling better and able to get back to working out, it is time to get back on my normal schedule. This includes getting up about 7am to do my light therapy before the kids get up, then waking the girl. Husband gets up on his own and walks her to the bus stop, and hopefully, the baby sleeps through all this. He is almost always up by 8:30, so I really don't have a lot of time after 8:00 to myself.

The preferred schedule from there is to feed the baby and after a little while, head off to the YMCA. We try to get out of there by 12 so I can go home, feed the baby and put him down immediately for his nap. I nap at that time too, until 3:00 when the girl comes home. Having the two of them together is almost always complete chaos with jumping on furniture, arguing over toys, laughing and screaming and so on. It is a struggle every day to keep them in check until Husband gets home at about 5:45. By then I am so frazzled that I have taken my anxiety med and have to get away from everyone by going upstairs.

Schedules are very helpful to me, it keeps me in check and have a sense of control about what is going to happen at various times of the day. I just thrive on it.

It is time to get back to this now, it will be hard getting up for a while, but I really need to make this happen.