Schedules on paper

We have mostly been sticking to our schedule-on-paper which makes it possible to plan our lives and know when it is appropriate to get some time alone. I think it has been working out fairly well, actually, though it would be nice to actually sit down with Trouble more often.

One of the nicer things about the schedule is that I have to get out of bed at 9 (which appears to be just enough sleep to keep me going though I get up to feed Huxley 3 times) and I have the boys from 9 to noon on most days. Since Huxley isn't nursing every 2 hours anymore, I actually get to take the boys out of the house - this has vastly improved my quality of life. We often run errands (groceries), but we also go to the zoo or just walk around the block. Occasionally, I'll pull out the stroller and we go somewhere. Sometimes, I try to jog a little bit, though that is hard work.

The problem with going somewhere in the stroller is that Turing assumes we are going to a place. I think this is one of the very few bad associations we've set up for him (the other would be expecting to get a cookie/candy at the end of a grocery trip though he is generally very well behaved at the grocery store . . .). As in, we cannot just go for a walk/jog - we must go somewhere and we must get something. While we sometimes get to walk to get the CSA boxes, the rest of the week we end up getting something like coffee or jamba juice.

The problem with getting coffee with the boys in the morning is that I really have no desire to then go back to the coffee shop later that day to work. And I don't want to buy tea at the coffee shop because I am now a tea snob; the tea habit is ruining everything!

I have been going into my office a little (though I want to avoid it so I don't get stuck with other people's work). That has worked out fairly well, but I feel silly driving when I could be working anywhere closer to home. But what is a girl to do when she doesn't want to be at the coffee shop? I don't know.