Don't get me wrong, I still love the weekends, I'm just jaded because I'm on week two of both kids being up multiple times a night. I think they are trying to break me, too bad for them that I only know outdated classified information.
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| Daddy, why is Mommy's eye always twitching? |
I don't expect Cordelia to be sleeping all night at this point, but I'm pretty stumped as to why Faith is waking up. Usually around midnight or 1am, she SCREAMS like Freddy Kruger is in her bedroom and I hustle down the hall to her room, and when I get in there she just stops screaming and asks to be tucked in. She usually goes right back to sleep and leaves me wide awake and struggling to get any sleep before the baby wakes up for a feeding.
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| Mommy is so close to breaking, my plan is working! |
At least when Cordelia wakes up, she has a good reason. Thighs like this don't just happen without serious dedication to eating:
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| Quads of Squish |
Even with the lack of solid sleep, I did manage to get some running done instead of napping like a sane person. I ran 9 miles on Friday on the treadmill split into two runs (6 in the morning, 3 in the afternoon). On Saturday afternoon I was able to actually run with someone else, which was very exciting for me since my baby-dictated schedule hasn't let me do that often, and we did 8 windy miles. Today I thought I should nap instead of run, but then I couldn't fall asleep and wasted 45 minutes trying to nap. I channeled that anger into a 5 mile treadmill run. I seriously don't understand how I can be so tired, yet I can't take a nap lately.
So I ran 34 miles this week, and my favorite run by far was Saturday's outdoor run. I did more than one run this week with Faith while she watched Elmo and played with her old toys in the basement and while it's nice to run while she's awake, I miss being able to zone out while I run. I'm always worried she's going to try to hop on the treadmill with me, even though she rarely even gets close.
Man, this post is full of all kinds of excitement. You're welcome world, you're welcome.
What was your favorite workout this week?
Oh this post made me laugh at every stop... not because I'm laughing at you but because I'm laughing with your pain... more of a crazy laugh or "I'm going insane" laugh. I feel for you dear... really I do.
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DeleteIt's impressive to me that you can be so sleep deprived and yet write so coherently. I don't understand this "longing for the weekend" thing though. That must be just you. I've never heard anything like that before.
ReplyDeleteThe blog posts are outsourced to India.
DeleteIn theory, I shouldn't care about the weekend because I don't have a job, yet I still do. It's puzzling.
DeleteYou don't officially refer to your husband as "Weekend Senior Assistant?" That's just me?
DeleteI can totally relate to that "I'M SO SLEEPY, SO WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I SLEEP?!?!" feeling. I'm an insomniac too. I don't even have any reason to be getting up in the middle of the night, yet one night last week I went to bed at 10, woke up when my husband came to bed at 1:15, and that was it. I was up for the night. It sucks. I don't see how you guys with kids do it for months on end.
ReplyDeleteWhy is baby cellulite so cute and adult cellulite hideous and repulsive? It should be the other way round.
ReplyDeleteIt's only cute on cute babies. Cellulite on an ugly baby is still ugly.
DeleteSquishy baby legs are pretty damn cute!
ReplyDeleteI always long for the weekends too and they are rarely relaxing. I think it's engrained in our pre-baby brains that it's going to be full of lounging on the couch with lots of TV watching. Why don't kids/babies get that this is what they should be doing?
ReplyDeleteI walked an amazing 1.5 miles in 20 minutes on the treadmill this week. *sigh* OK, so it wasn't amazing, but it was the closest I've gotten to running in a few weeks. I might go crazy these next 3 months.
I keep telling my husband what good birth control your blog is. Every time I start thinking a baby sounds like a good idea I read this and I REMEMBER how awful it was in those early years. My daughter is off to kindergarten this year, this is no time to start over. I think my clock is just freaking out because I am 35.
ReplyDeleteGreat job getting in all the miles and big FAIL on the napping.
My 10 miler in the snow on Friday was pretty glorious. No cars anywhere. It was amazing.
ReplyDeleteGotta say, you have me convinced that I want a kid and then you post something like this. You're not doing yourself any favors.
I gave up naps the last time I tried and I spent 45 minutes falling asleep, only for my three-year-old to barge in as I was finally on the verge of sleep because she "missed me." Then I yelled at my husband for letting her out of his sight during a rare nap attempt.
ReplyDeleteI regularly punch people who tell me to nap.
I wish napping was easier. I could actually be OK on sleep if I could fall asleep instantly and never had to clean up my house haha
DeleteI don't think my baby's legs have ever approached that level of squishy. The pediatrician's nurse always complains about lack of space for the 8 million vaccines.
ReplyDeleteYour post reminded me that my husband recently told me that weekends are my days off. He's lucky he didn't get a black eye for that.
Way to get your miles in even though you are lacking in the sleep department! I hate getting woken up in the middle of the night! My youngest sometimes can't fall asleep and he yells for me that he's too hot. Seriously?! I am always so grumpy when I go in there, you would think he would learn.
ReplyDeleteThose thighs are all kinds of awesome.
ReplyDeleteI ran on Monday for the first time in a long time and even though it was slow, it was hard for me. It brought all sorts or soreness and pain in all the familiar running places (abs, hip flexors, calves). It also make me ridiculously tired for like 3 days after. Sounds great right? Well, it was! Now I remember why I used to have abs and sleep so well back when I was in training!
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Great job getting back to running! :)
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