The Work-Play Balance
Our webposts have been infrequent lately and our emailing even more so. So if you are one of those poor souls sitting anxiously by your computer clicking the refresh key obsessively, waiting to hear from us (like you, Grandma Marian! :-))) ), I apologize dearly. As most of you know, Paul is neck deep in his spring semester at the UofA. And….it’s Hueco season. Hectic? Very. Let me give you a sneak peek into a typical week in our lives right now:
Weekdays I wake up at an hour in the AM that no human being should ever, EVER be getting up at (unless you’ve got a newborn in your house) and go to work. Paul and Silas go about their day, then Silas goes down for his nap. Paul runs to his computer and bangs away for a couple hours until Silas wakes up. An hour or so later I then arrive home from work and the 3 of us sit down for a nice family dinner. The minute that dinner is over I kiss Paul good-bye and goodnight and he heads out the door to go to class and/or meet with his teammates. Silas and I then go about our evening. I put him to bed, then I go to bed (yes, my bedtime is like 8:30 – LAME). Then sometime in the wee hours of the night Paul arrives back home and then bangs on his computer some more with another cup of coffee and finally, finally comes to bed. And a few hours later my alarm rings and the madness starts again.
So where’s the climbing? Good question. A question that I have to answer daily in my mind between all of my to-do’s because it needs to be scheduled, literally scheduled to the half-hour, into my day. Usually I try to sneak in 1 workout on a weeknight, although trying to get a meaningful workout in while playing with Silas under the woody isn’t typically very successful. Paul usually tries to sneak in 1 workout during the workweek while Silas naps. The weekends we spend home are pretty much more of the above. But the weekends we head to Hueco are truly what is currently maintaining our calm, our sanity and our psyche. Who would have ever thought that a weekend spent playing around on little boulders out in the hot desert could be so powerful? My family is truly blessed to have this addiction in our lives right now.
Here are a couple snapshots of our last trip to Hueco (2 weeks ago):
Me working Better Eat Your Wheaties, v8 again. No progress.
Paul working Crown of Aragorn, v13 again. No progress.
The baby struttin’ his stuff
Rest time
Snack time
Play time
Boo boo
Mama’s playtime: sending Animal Acts, v5
Mia’s turn
And now Tom’s
Paul retrieving our snack container that Silas was playing with – cause throwing toys down cracks is FUN!
My sanity
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