Since coming back from New Zealand and vacation, regular life kind of hit hard on me time wise. Oh my the pace between working and time off is really something! And the again – “time off” when you have a kid, is not really what it used to be. ;)
This week all workouts have been in the morning, and as long as it’s bright outside already at 5 am, I don’t mind getting up and getting an hour BODYPUMP in before work. Like I did today again – feels great! Then shower and brekkie and cartoons with Ebbe in the sofa. Life is good. :)
Sometimes I think I try to hard to do everything on my to-do-list. Really have to get better at also putting some of the things down in the column “might-actually-not-be-done-at-all” on the list. Like yesterday, when I decided to let absolutely everything else wait and just doing three loads of washing and then spending 100% of the rest of the time hanging with Ebbe! Meaning making dinner and going to the playground. Sounds fairly soft huh?
This is how it works though. Picking up Ebbe from daycare and singing together all the way home – lovely! Hurrying making waffles to get out in the sun fast. At he same time separating laundry into colours and making myself something assimilates dinner, yesterday that was tuna and yoghurt-mix with vegetables. (Still ending up eating three of Ebbes waffles afterwards. :)) Then going down to put on a load of laundry, up again to unpack bags from the day and re-pack bags for playground with extra clothes, water, fruit, napkins, sunscreen, pail and shovel, his water spouting firetruck, book for me and biking helmets for the two of us.
Finally off we go – wiihooo! On our way out I stop by the laundry room to hang and put clothes in the dryer and to book another time slot for next week. At the playground I try to spend as much time that I have the energy for running around with Ebbe, jumping, biking and building sand castles..
And then sit down with my book for about ten minutes before someone needs to pee NOW. Whoopsie daises, not much to do – running out of the playground for an emergency pressure release. ;) All good. Then a while pushing him on the swing and singing (he makes me – I’m sure the other parents were all thinking of offering me money just to stop..) before he went off to the slide and I went another round into the laundry room and then back to my book for another ten minutes. Then the sun had gone away and it was starting to get chilly, so we went inside. Dirty as a dog Ebbe needed a bath so bring out the big pink plastic bath tub filling it (and later on as it shows more or less the entire bathroom) with water and bubbles to soak the little nasty sandy bugger.
Meanwhile I’m doing the dishes, unpacking the bags (again), preparing new bags for Ebbes stay at grandma’s tomorrow since daycare is closed and trying to answer an e-mail or two that had been wainting too long already. “I’m readyyyyyyyy!” shouts the royal highness who expects his server (aka mum) to come running – which she does, cause I don’t want him to come out dripping on the floor. ;) Then evening snacktime, pyjama, eliminating tooth “trolls” and bed time story. Phew.
And then, when he finally falls asleep I have time to attend to myself, making a lunchbox for the next day, clearing out the bathroom mess, attending to my business (e-mails, invoices, salaries etc), rehearsing classes or creating some new Powerstrip choreo. All so much FUN, but I just wish the day had more hours sometimes. So somehow, even though it’s all true, I do feel I’m not really telling the truth when asked the next day: “So what did you do yesterday, except for hanging out with Ebbe and taking it easy?”
“- Uhm, well.. Nothing really, I guess.”
Kids. Turn your world upside down, ruin your best clothes sleeps deprives you and totally drives you mad from time to time. And still I would walk through fire in a heartbeat to be with him. My Ebbe.
Now is everything. Enjoy the moment.
#tiredgratefulandhappy /Å
