Blown away...

Goodness! Taking over the full running of the household is exhausting. I thought it would take just a week to get used to it, and then add the paddling into the mix, but honestly, I'm just now starting to feel up to the early mornings. It's taken a month.

I get up with the kids at 6:30am or so, and it's non-stop. They go to bed around 9pm, and then I'm doing the dishes from that day that I hadn't gotten to yet, giving the baby chicks fresh water, and usually sneaking out to water plants I didn't get to during the day too. And those are my nightly chores. Then there are the less-frequent but constant ones: bills, cleaning the cat's litterbox, correspondences, getting ahead on cooking things, planning meals and shopping lists, getting my 'to do' lists up to date.  I go to bed on average at 11pm. My son still wakes me 2-3 times per night.

Getting up at 5 or 5:30 hasn't appealed, but I am starting to think I could do it without totally wiping myself out now. And I can always supplement with napping when the kids nap when I'm exhausted.

So I've spent the past month learning to float and tread water in the hurricane, and now this month I plan on starting to *move*.

In the meantime, I've been able to sneak in some reading. Two book reviews are coming down the pipeline, both on paddling. They've been very educational books, and easy to read. Fun!