Schedule Re-arrange
Wednesday was a two star day 
With the earlier waking time, I have now officially changed my alarm to 6:30am. Ouch. It sounds so much earlier, but I am not feeling that more tired than waking at 7:00. Unfortunately, I don’t think 6:30 is early enough. I am used to a whole hour before the kids wake up, so now I don’t even have enough time to do my blogging, check email and do my plurking before I have to have myself ready. I need almost a full hour I can dedicate to get the kids ready.
Since Monster hadn’t been feeling well, he hadn’t been to Auntie’s, and I didn’t expect him to be on Wednesday. If he didn’t have any more diarrheas, which he didn’t, I was going to call Auntie and arrange for her to watch him Thursday and/or Friday. Monster did ok, and I made the call. Wednesday, Auntie had some teeth pulled, and was feeling pretty miserable, but agreed to both Thursday and Friday. I was looking forward to having both days to myself, no kids, but as you will read in my next post, I didn’t get that.
Husband and I had a meeting to go to at the humane society as a follow-up to the website, doing some Q&A with the staff. My mom agreed to watch the kids, and I didn’t really think about needing the house clean-ish before she got there, until that morning. I attacked the house, and took almost two hours to do dishes, pick up toys, sweep, and other stuff to make things presentable. I hate having a deadline like that, but did finish with a little cushion.
With the craziness of cleaning, I didn’t have time to go to the YMCA to do my swimming before Daughter got home. As a side note— having to be at that corner at an exact time takes more effort than I thought it would. We then had that meeting, so I decided that I would go swim after the meeting, especially since I almost pass the Y on the way home. At the meeting, sleepiness hit from missing my nap and I got extremely hungry. My plans to go swim were cancelled, and although this would mean I wouldn’t make my goal of exercising every day this week until Friday, and get my reward dinner, I felt so badly, I was ready to skip it.
To make up for the swimming, I had the option to do a 20 minute bike ride, and I agreed to do that. The trail here by my home has two big inclines, but the ride down the back is almost all coasting. In this area there are lots of ups and downs, and I have not figured out exactly the best way to go to maximize my strength for those hills, and where the resting, coasting areas should be.
I was a bit depressed, and had a hard time with motivation for anything, but especially the swimming. I am just so tired. The kindergarten thing makes for a yucky schedule and little nap possibilities. It is still the first week, so I guess I should give it some time, and try putting the Monster on a set schedule and not waiting for him to show me he is ready for nap. This way I have the time I want and need for blogging and plurking and the possibility of a nap, should I feel one is necessary.
