Well Saturday and Sunday are over for another week. I won't call it a "weekend" as lets face it, the week never actually ends when you have kids!
The weather was nice, a bit cool but the sun was out and it didn't rain so the kids were able to play outside.
Got the grocery shopping done but not much else! My Mum had a friend over, a lady she's known since I was a little girl, and it was great to have some proper adult conversation. We haven't seen her for a while so there was lots of catching up to do.
I've been feeling extremely tired lately which is mainly my own fault. I used to go to bed not long after the kids were asleep and I'd actually fall asleep instantly, knowing I could be woken up at any time during the night or early in the morning. Z goes to sleep not long after 7pm but L is all over the place at the moment and is sometimes still awake at 10. And instead of then going to sleep myself, I sit in bed and scroll Facebook repeatedly or stream an episode of something and then get hooked and have to watch the next one, or watch Love Island on TV (it's so TRASHY, but I can't stop watching!) There are a million (not exaggerating) other things that I should be doing, but they are not things I want to do and especially not at that time of night.
So then I'm falling asleep around midnight... And Z decides to wake up not long after. And takes a couple of hours to go back to sleep. And wakes me up a few more times by rolling into me or hitting me in the face. Then it's 7am and I'm awake because my body tells me it's time to wake up regardless of how little sleep I've had.
I bet most of you have had this problem.
There are never enough hours in the day to do everything. We put something off to do it later, then later comes and we can't be bothered so it gets left again. We want sleep but we also want to be able to do adult things while our children are sleeping - and no, I don't mean sex! That isn't even anywhere on my list at the moment.
Anyway, it's now 10pm and I'm in bed about to publish this post, then I'm going to quickly (hopefully) scroll Facebook and see what advice I can give, then I will go to sleep!
Night night.
Everyone has a story. This is mine.
Sunday, 23 July 2017
Saturday, 22 July 2017
Halfway through 2017
Wow! Time flies when you're a Mum to 2 toddlers! I can't believe we are already halfway through 2017. I haven't written a post since December 2015 so there's obviously lots to update on.
I recently posted the link to this blog in a Single Mums support group. Hello to you if you're from there! But it seems I have been blocked from the group without any explanation :(
My little boy Z is 2 years old and he is AMAZING. Even when he's cracking the shits or being extremely naughty, he's still able to make me smile. He's incredibly cheeky and every day he is doing or saying something new. Recently he's been waking up in the middle of the night and I've found it easier to bring him into bed with me. It can take up to 3 hours for him to finally fall back asleep, but during that time he's so quiet, it's like he's asleep, until I hear "Mummy?" or he touches my nose, or the other night he gently rubbed my back. He's a bed hog though and often makes his way onto my pillow and I find I only have what seems like 2 inches of the bed and I can't roll over.
L is such a big girl now, nearly 4! She is intelligent and full of questions like why do we have skin? And Mummy, why do you have 2 chins? She is also highly anxious and gets upset when she can't do something the way she wants to or something isn't how she expected (a lot like me).
They are very happy and very healthy children. They love going to Kindergym and playgroup. They love playing outside now that we actually have a yard and not just weeds and concrete. They play and interact together a lot better now that Z is talking more and copying everything L does. They both love Trolls and PJ Masks and L also likes Shimmer and Shine as well as anything Disney Princess and superheroes.
No longer my tiny babies, they are growing up way too fast!
I recently posted the link to this blog in a Single Mums support group. Hello to you if you're from there! But it seems I have been blocked from the group without any explanation :(
My little boy Z is 2 years old and he is AMAZING. Even when he's cracking the shits or being extremely naughty, he's still able to make me smile. He's incredibly cheeky and every day he is doing or saying something new. Recently he's been waking up in the middle of the night and I've found it easier to bring him into bed with me. It can take up to 3 hours for him to finally fall back asleep, but during that time he's so quiet, it's like he's asleep, until I hear "Mummy?" or he touches my nose, or the other night he gently rubbed my back. He's a bed hog though and often makes his way onto my pillow and I find I only have what seems like 2 inches of the bed and I can't roll over.
L is such a big girl now, nearly 4! She is intelligent and full of questions like why do we have skin? And Mummy, why do you have 2 chins? She is also highly anxious and gets upset when she can't do something the way she wants to or something isn't how she expected (a lot like me).
They are very happy and very healthy children. They love going to Kindergym and playgroup. They love playing outside now that we actually have a yard and not just weeds and concrete. They play and interact together a lot better now that Z is talking more and copying everything L does. They both love Trolls and PJ Masks and L also likes Shimmer and Shine as well as anything Disney Princess and superheroes.
No longer my tiny babies, they are growing up way too fast!
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