The Quick 5 is LATE today. Let's just say, it's not been a day that has gone according to plan.
1. I am realizing how dependent I am on Eliza's naps to achieve true productivity, and it worries me. Case in point: today. Because she gets up so early in the mornings, we still haven't dropped the morning nap. A typical day includes a 1.5-2hr nap in the morning, and then a 1.5 hr nap later in the afternoon. This schedule makes up for the fact that she gets up much earlier than I would say her disposition would allow: she's never really happy in the mornings until after that first nap. However, the past week or so since daylight savings, that nap schedule has been in limbo. She's not getting up as early, but she's also not getting as much sleep. And today was the worse, with a single nap clocking in just shy of two hours. I had really been counting on naps today to work on my decluttering project. If I attempt anything like sorting papers, laundry, outgrown clothes while she is up, Eliza is sure to get into it. I make a big enough mess doing it as is, making piles to sort through things; I don't need her help! So I have to wait for her to nap so I can go to with gusto. Needless to say, I got very little done today (because yes, I do require a shower). If she doesn't nap well tomorrow, I might not make my deadline. So, what am I to do when I have two children, who do not nap on the same schedule? Thankfully, Simon will be immobile for a time! But he will still demand my attention. This is something that gives me apprehension.
2. Nick and I are enjoying watching Jeopardy! together currently. The current champion "Tom" is a bit of a wizard: just about every day it's almost impossible to catch him. We enjoy testing our own trivia skills (which are mad depending on the day), but it's been great fun watching Tom play. He's a man after Nick's own heart: he's not afraid to go for a true daily double by betting it all.
3. It's Spring Break next week and while many of my friends are off and more free for the week, suddenly I'm more busy! I am making plans, plans, plans to see people I normally don't get to see and do things that having people off work suddenly allow me to do. Like a cooking day with my friend Jaime. I am determined that I'll have at least a few things in the freezer for when Simon comes!
4. The decluttering thing... Yeah, it's more work than it should be. It just goes to show how far behind I am in the organization business. I first needed to go through our filing cabinet and clean it out: it had been in storage while we were living with my parents and was in desperate need of an overhaul. And then there's the beginning to go through the paper just to see what needs to be kept and what tossed. Next will be sorting to file.... I might not make the deadline tomorrow whether Eliza naps well or no. Because that's just the paper (which is all that Hot Spot was assigned for), but I also want to declutter all the... well, clutter from those pictures as well. I have a lot to do.
5. My body is really beginning to gear up for labor. At least that's the way it feels to me. Most evenings find me very uncomfortable from contractions and Braxton Hicks. I'm almost to the point where I want to say, "Just come out, already!" But the truth is... I'm not ready. Typical for a second or later child, I'm told. But I realized I still need to get preregistered at the hospital so paperwork is taken care of; I don't have any bags packed; I need to get this room decluttered and cleaned up so we have someplace to put his cradle.... I think you'll see what I'll be trying to accomplish next week and the week after (likely). If only I had that proverbial burst of energy before a birth. But it's failing to come.
So much household-y news for the Quick 5 this week! But that's the majority of what I've got on my plate. Before long it will be lots of news about babies and the like. Sigh. I'm told there are seasons in life, and this seems to be mine. But I'm longing for more time for reflection and thinking. Too bad I just don't function that well at 4:00 in the morning, or maybe I'd get up earlier so I would have the time to do it!
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