I didn’t get out of bed until 7:20 this morning. I was able to justify plenty of excuses to myself this morning, mostly that I was up with Valentina off and on from 2-3:30 (after Jen had been up with her for an hour prior), and Gia had come into our bed at 5. Basically my thought process was that if I was going to get up at 5:30 I might as well not go back to sleep, and that just seemed untenable.
But tomorrow’s another day, I can still make it 4/5 this week!
I was out of bed at 5:30 this morning. 👍
I tried this new coffee this morning. It’s instant coffee blended with a couple varieties of mushrooms. Doesn’t taste great (it’s not bad, it’s just not the nice coffee I’m used to), but it did give me a huge energy burst right away. Although it didn’t last all day like they claim…but that may be more tied to my lack of sleep the night before, and my pre-existing caffeine addiction.
Last week I had every intention of waking up by 5:30am to meditate and do a quick workout before my kids got up. But every night at least one of them woke up (usually more than once) and kept me from getting a good night’s sleep, which gave me an easy excuse to “sleep in” until 6:30. But no more excuses. I’m posting this here so I have a little accountability to force my hand. Every day this week I am going to be out of bed by 5:30am. There, I said it. I even made myself delete the caveat I had written there to say that I didn’t have to do it if the girls woke up multiple times. Give me an inch and I’ll take a mile. Lazy bum. I’ll post every day with a yay or nay saying whether I did it or not.
In other news, I’m considering trying to us this same motivation to do weekly experiments with myself. Like this will be one week where I get up extra early, and I’ll see if that’s worth continuing. Another week I might try to give up all TV to see how that goes. Or I’ll commit to riding my bike to the coffee shop every day for a week no matter what the weather. Or I could be vegetarian for a week. I don’t know, I’m just trying to think of interesting things to try. Any suggestions?
This is the song that’s been stuck in my head for the last few days.
Finally converted Gia’s crib into a toddler bed. She loves it, and so does Valentina.
Walking to Arts In The Park
We drank these all the time in Greece, and I made them myself for a while after we got back (this was several years ago). They were delicious. But I tried to make them again today and they came out terrible. Maybe I need more practice…
At least they look pretty.
Skit Skat Skoodle Doot 