Oh, Sunday Naps, how I love thee....let me count the ways....one hour, two hours, three hours, four hours, five hours!
Five hours yesterday, I napped. It was fantastic. I'm not sure what I was fighting off physically, but I was definitely fighting some emotional and mental exhaustion.
This "working mom" thing is kicking my butt. I am working as hard and as fast as I can, but I still keep slipping behind the eight ball. Laundry, grocery shopping, menu planning, housekeeping, weekend chores, volunteering with the kids' swim team, attending the temple, teaching Primary, and trying to do it all with a smile on my face is killing me.
A Sunday nap is the best refueling system I know. Sadly it only comes once a week, at best.
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Monday, July 22, 2013
Monday, October 15, 2012
Not So Timeless
On Sundays lately, the kids have been going through and watching the old Disney movies we have on VHS. Yes, we still have a working tape machine in our house. (!) Yesterday she got through a handful of flicks, mostly becasue her brother has a novel he has to read for his English class that he just started Thrusday. It is due in two weeks, and he isn't the fastest reader around here. So he wasn't arguing her selections yesterday.
Anyhow, she started with "Beauty and the Beast" which is definitely a classic.
However, she shifted to the Christmas version--direct to video--sequel. Not so classic. It did give me a few good memory shots of her being a little girl and watching it and loving it. But now? Not so much.
Another one she watched was "Little Mermaid". Again, a timeless classic. So clever and the music is SO good.
"The Little Mermaid 2" however, is forgettable at best and the music isn't even worth mentioning. I hadn't even remembered we had that one.
Anyhow, she started with "Beauty and the Beast" which is definitely a classic.
However, she shifted to the Christmas version--direct to video--sequel. Not so classic. It did give me a few good memory shots of her being a little girl and watching it and loving it. But now? Not so much.
Another one she watched was "Little Mermaid". Again, a timeless classic. So clever and the music is SO good.
"The Little Mermaid 2" however, is forgettable at best and the music isn't even worth mentioning. I hadn't even remembered we had that one.
She also caught up with "Sleeping Beauty"--one of my total favorites from being a kid, thanks to an LP version with the follow along booklet, even if it skipped and I thought there were 4 good fairies : Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, and Merryweather.
And she watched "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" which, while classic, has some musical eccentricities. The Girl even mentioned that she had forgotten how nasally the Snow White voice is. When I told her that it was from a different musical time period, she asked "How old IS this movie?" When I told her, she was surprised and seemed to accept the crazy singing voice.
I'm glad she is watching some of these, just so I can remember tiny moments of her childhood, and mine at times. The classics are classic for a good reason. The sequels, well, they leave much to be desired.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Irony: Defined
Today at church our five year old friend, Kyler, who sits in the pew behind us was giving his sweet mom more than just fits. He was in major meltdown mode.
Meanwhile, The Boy was trying to "pass off" some of his Articles of Faith memorization. He was working specifically on the sixth one today.
The Boy leans in to me and begins to quote: "We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, antagonists, and so forth."
I was trying to be reverent, and didn't want him thinking I was laughing AT him, but that was hilarious! I also didn't want to laugh via snorting as that is the least ladylike thing I do--and there are plenty to chose from.
Of course, the word he meant was 'evangelists' and currently one set of characters in their 6th grade play call themselves 'antagonists' so it was an honest word fumble mistake. But in light of young Mr. Meltdown behind us, the irony was too perfect!
Meanwhile, The Boy was trying to "pass off" some of his Articles of Faith memorization. He was working specifically on the sixth one today.
The Boy leans in to me and begins to quote: "We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, antagonists, and so forth."
I was trying to be reverent, and didn't want him thinking I was laughing AT him, but that was hilarious! I also didn't want to laugh via snorting as that is the least ladylike thing I do--and there are plenty to chose from.
Of course, the word he meant was 'evangelists' and currently one set of characters in their 6th grade play call themselves 'antagonists' so it was an honest word fumble mistake. But in light of young Mr. Meltdown behind us, the irony was too perfect!
Sunday, July 20, 2008
My Kingdom for a NAP!
I got up at 5 AM this morning, to get ready and take Genius Golfer to the airport this morning then went directly to a meeting with the Stake Presidency about Girls' Camp that is coming next week, then home long enough to eat something for breakfast, get kids checked over before church, then to church for our 3 hour block of meetings and home to grab some lunch and I fell into my yet unmade bed and took a nap for about 3 hours.
Some days I think the hours I keep just make me exhausted, other times it is the business of keeping (what I am actually doing in those hours) that makes me so tired. Then I am also faced with the sad reality that my body is aging, with or without me, and may actually need m ore sleep too.
Yesterday, the kids had their last regular dual swim meet before next week's County Finals. I had gone with every intention of sitting and watching and cheering for my kids. But, as tends to be the case, the team that was hosting didn't have the help they should have had and I got called on to run the bull pen. (The "bull pen" is swim-slang for the place where the swimmers are lined up and placed into the correct heats and lanes for the various events.) The lady whom I was to help was also running the front desk of the public city pool and basically told me that I had it covered and left me as the first event was being called to the Bull Pen.
At our pool, we have an average of 3-4 moms work the Bull Pen with extra runners helping line up little tiny kids when it is their turn. I had two HS age lifeguard acting as runners from the host team, and Me.
It was in indoor pool which always adds to the auditory confusion and increasing the need to YELL. Plus, was it hot in there. Good thing Dear Friend Kelly's good husband, Roger, brought me a bucket of Diet Coke at some point or I would have melted into a puddle of goo.
By 10:45, I had the last events in place and sent over to the starting blocks and the meet was all but over. Whew. I needed a nap yesterday too, and even went so far as to fall asleep twice only to be woken up shortly after by children, phones, doorbells, etc.
So when I saw the opportunity for a nap today, I jumped on it like nobody's business. It felt great. Yet, I'm sure that I'll still be ready to sleep tonight again. Sad isn't it, that when the kids are little and they need the extra sleep they don't want to take a nap, and when we get older and busier and want the extra sleep we don't have the chance to take naps. Cosmic humor. You have got to love that.
Well, sleep well, my friends. We probably need it.
Some days I think the hours I keep just make me exhausted, other times it is the business of keeping (what I am actually doing in those hours) that makes me so tired. Then I am also faced with the sad reality that my body is aging, with or without me, and may actually need m ore sleep too.
Yesterday, the kids had their last regular dual swim meet before next week's County Finals. I had gone with every intention of sitting and watching and cheering for my kids. But, as tends to be the case, the team that was hosting didn't have the help they should have had and I got called on to run the bull pen. (The "bull pen" is swim-slang for the place where the swimmers are lined up and placed into the correct heats and lanes for the various events.) The lady whom I was to help was also running the front desk of the public city pool and basically told me that I had it covered and left me as the first event was being called to the Bull Pen.
At our pool, we have an average of 3-4 moms work the Bull Pen with extra runners helping line up little tiny kids when it is their turn. I had two HS age lifeguard acting as runners from the host team, and Me.
It was in indoor pool which always adds to the auditory confusion and increasing the need to YELL. Plus, was it hot in there. Good thing Dear Friend Kelly's good husband, Roger, brought me a bucket of Diet Coke at some point or I would have melted into a puddle of goo.
By 10:45, I had the last events in place and sent over to the starting blocks and the meet was all but over. Whew. I needed a nap yesterday too, and even went so far as to fall asleep twice only to be woken up shortly after by children, phones, doorbells, etc.
So when I saw the opportunity for a nap today, I jumped on it like nobody's business. It felt great. Yet, I'm sure that I'll still be ready to sleep tonight again. Sad isn't it, that when the kids are little and they need the extra sleep they don't want to take a nap, and when we get older and busier and want the extra sleep we don't have the chance to take naps. Cosmic humor. You have got to love that.
Well, sleep well, my friends. We probably need it.
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