I've trained the kids to sleep until ten in the morning. This seems to calm them down during the day. I suppose it's nicer to live at your own pace. It does make me wonder at the wisdom of always waking kids up to go to school.
Marie naps two till four (instead of one thirty to three, when I have to wake her to go and get Jack from school during the year). She sometimes sleeps for three hours. I didn't even know she was capable of that.
That horrible time around five o'clock? I just make sure I'm out of the house, doing the shopping or something.
Mondays and Fridays I'm keeping as Marie's creche days. Jack goes with me to the gym for a couple of hours. They have a great kids' room, with a TV, computer games, a box of toys, and he gets to take his dad's Nintendo DS. He wants me to work out longer when I go to get him after two hours, so that's fine.
Can you hear the holiday demon laughing in the background? He's saying "Mwoohaha, I have you fooled. This is a temporary lull, making my next punch hit even harder."
It's strange that I'm finally making progress in the gym. I'm building up the intensity and the weights. That after making no progress for months. I suppose I'm underestimating the workout you get from a full day's sale and shoe shopping with two small children in tow. It's a shame my weight is not playing along. I've actually gained two pounds. WTF?
Also - I don't know what the weather is doing. Last week, it was about thirty degrees. Today: fifteen. Last week, I couldn't shed enough clothes. Today, we're back to jeans and long-sleeved T-shirts. At least I now get to wear my fabulous fuck me boots.
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Sounds like you have found the perfect summer schedule!
ReplyDeleteI really need to learn to secret of how to get the children to sleep in that late!!!
ReplyDeleteLovely boots, by the way. If it's any comfort, it's blooming freezing here in Somerset!!!
@Debbie - Yes, only it doesn't leave enough time to go out much, so I always mess it up. :-)
ReplyDelete@Loopy Lu - I think the secret is to take two sleepy parents and make them multiply. We are both sleepers.
Welcome!
*Sobs* a lie-in? Don't remember those!!
ReplyDeleteMy goodness, your children are amazingly agreeable. And sleepy!
ReplyDeleteAnd those boots- if I come to visit, can I borrow them?
Love those boots!!! i used to have a pair like that but I am such a clutz that they have been banished to the back of my closet until I no longer have small children who are carried.
ReplyDelete@SandyCalico - Yeah, sorry. They don't do that every day.
ReplyDelete@Ms. Moon - My children are lovely.
Of course you can borrow them! If you come all the way over here, you can have them!
@mountainmommachronicles - They are lovely. I only banish heels for the tiny baby stage. As soon as they turn about six months, I reckon they would probably bounce if I drop them.
Wow. I would kill for my children to sleep until 8, nevermind 10!!!!! I'm oozing with jealousy over here.
ReplyDelete@Scary Mommy - Honestly, they don't do that every day! And I'm really, really appreciative when they do.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a great schedule. Sleeping til 10 and then getting to work out alone for a few hours? You give me hope!
ReplyDeleteYou get a lie in! Mine are still trying to get up at 5.30. I consider 7 to be a lie-in of unprecedented excitement. And they don't nap during the day. Grrr!
ReplyDeleteOh, I miss my boots. I like fall best, because you don't have to pile up clothes as in winter but you can wear those fabulous slimming opaque tights, and with my little platform boots.. love it.
ReplyDelete@Lady Mama - Hope is good. Stick with that.
ReplyDelete@Brit in Bosnia - I commiserate with you. I'm sure being woken up at 5.30 is considered a "cruel and unusual punishment" in most UN countries. Also: welcome!
@Elisa - I love my boots so much, I wear them on summer evenings and any rainy days, too.
Kids sleeping in!? OMG. heaven. ours wake up at 6:30/7 am but the trade off is they go to bed early so we get alone time at night.
ReplyDeletere exercise: you won't lose weight if you are building muscle mass with the exercise and weights. muscle weighs more than fat, so as you burn fat and replace it with muscle you may not lose weight nor inches, but actually gain some.
this was a really good article dispelling a few myths:
http://nymag.com/news/sports/38001/
@Eurydice - Welcome and thanks for the article! That all sounds very plausible.
ReplyDeleteI think I should probably just focus on the other reasons I go to the gym, beside weight loss: the happy hormones, the general fitness level, and the longterm aim to get some strength in my arms.
In the end, I'd rather be healthy and slightly bigger, I suppose.