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May. 7th, 2024 03:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spryngI should be writing but the rice only has a few minutes left on the timer and apparently once I get sub 20min on anything I'm waiting for, my brain freezes. So, hi friends!
It's funny how much I need Monday to just recover from the weekend. I've been trying to dial it back a bit, but this weekend we went & went & went. Saturday morning was farmer's market and errands and Saturday afternoon was a grill party with CG's best friend and her family that we've pretty much adopted. That meant four small kids running around in various states of getting along while two moms tried to grill and prepare food and a third ran her own errands.
It was good until it wasn't, and then it was 2+ kids having a meltdown while the other 2 were on the verge. I'm still learning how to best ebb and flow interactions with small kids to keep them a) engaged with each other, b) fed, and c) not overstimulated, but damn, it's hard. Sometimes we make it through a whole afternoon without any fights or tears and sometimes it's just one thing after another. This Saturday was a little of both.
Then Sunday was time at 2 Papas out at the lake. But first: a short run and then groceries with two kids and feeding said kids and getting all the swimming stuff together. I hustled hard to get out the door by mid-morning because there were thunderstorms forecast for early afternoon and both kids wanted to go out on the lake. Of course, we managed to get to the lake in a timely manner, only to find out the thunderstorms were now forecast for late afternoon. Well. We used the extra time to do crafts with the grandparents before heading out on the boat.
Gosh, we are so grateful to have the grandparents so close, and to have their house on a lake to boot. Florida's heat can get oppressive, but there's something about a body of water that kicks up a decent breeze and cuts through the worst of it. And drifting on a lake, watching the fluffy clouds grow and merge and grow even bigger is just... idk. Relaxing?
Well, it'd be relaxing if one kid wasn't running up and down the boat and the other wasn't whining about not getting to steer. 🙄
CG and I yeeted ourselves into the water to swim while the others continued to boat around. I'm really working on my fear of lakes/bodies of water I can't see the bottom of. Even knowing the lake is deep and spring-fed (ie, too cold for gators to really sneak up on you if you're out in the middle), it's still hard to just relax. But CG had a lot of fun and we must've spent a solid hour just splashing around before we headed back inside.
I might need to suggest to my mom that 85 degrees is hot enough to run the a/c, though. 😬 They like having all the windows open and letting a breeze through, but there's definitely a point when you start feeling a bit sick instead of comfortable. Between the swimming, the heat, and the activities, I was absolutely exhausted by the time we got home. Thankfully, the kids were, too.
I was still exhausted Monday morning, so I skipped Crossfit (gasp) and planned not to work until later in the day. I'm endlessly grateful that I can even do that, that I have a job that is flexible enough for me to take that extra time here and there. I've been very grateful about a lot of things lately; these kids, this place, this life. Even if I need to recover from a weekend with kids ^^()
It's funny how much I need Monday to just recover from the weekend. I've been trying to dial it back a bit, but this weekend we went & went & went. Saturday morning was farmer's market and errands and Saturday afternoon was a grill party with CG's best friend and her family that we've pretty much adopted. That meant four small kids running around in various states of getting along while two moms tried to grill and prepare food and a third ran her own errands.
It was good until it wasn't, and then it was 2+ kids having a meltdown while the other 2 were on the verge. I'm still learning how to best ebb and flow interactions with small kids to keep them a) engaged with each other, b) fed, and c) not overstimulated, but damn, it's hard. Sometimes we make it through a whole afternoon without any fights or tears and sometimes it's just one thing after another. This Saturday was a little of both.
Then Sunday was time at 2 Papas out at the lake. But first: a short run and then groceries with two kids and feeding said kids and getting all the swimming stuff together. I hustled hard to get out the door by mid-morning because there were thunderstorms forecast for early afternoon and both kids wanted to go out on the lake. Of course, we managed to get to the lake in a timely manner, only to find out the thunderstorms were now forecast for late afternoon. Well. We used the extra time to do crafts with the grandparents before heading out on the boat.
Gosh, we are so grateful to have the grandparents so close, and to have their house on a lake to boot. Florida's heat can get oppressive, but there's something about a body of water that kicks up a decent breeze and cuts through the worst of it. And drifting on a lake, watching the fluffy clouds grow and merge and grow even bigger is just... idk. Relaxing?
Well, it'd be relaxing if one kid wasn't running up and down the boat and the other wasn't whining about not getting to steer. 🙄
CG and I yeeted ourselves into the water to swim while the others continued to boat around. I'm really working on my fear of lakes/bodies of water I can't see the bottom of. Even knowing the lake is deep and spring-fed (ie, too cold for gators to really sneak up on you if you're out in the middle), it's still hard to just relax. But CG had a lot of fun and we must've spent a solid hour just splashing around before we headed back inside.
I might need to suggest to my mom that 85 degrees is hot enough to run the a/c, though. 😬 They like having all the windows open and letting a breeze through, but there's definitely a point when you start feeling a bit sick instead of comfortable. Between the swimming, the heat, and the activities, I was absolutely exhausted by the time we got home. Thankfully, the kids were, too.
I was still exhausted Monday morning, so I skipped Crossfit (gasp) and planned not to work until later in the day. I'm endlessly grateful that I can even do that, that I have a job that is flexible enough for me to take that extra time here and there. I've been very grateful about a lot of things lately; these kids, this place, this life. Even if I need to recover from a weekend with kids ^^()
