Hey, my DITL, my rules.
Also, I totally slacked off on taking any pictures. Still, will try to recreate some semblance of what happened Sunday and Monday!
DITL #4: Sunday, Naples –> Home
7:15: Up! Go down to hotel lobby to grab coffee. Come back up to get G up. (Josh and C had left for the game at 7 to be there an hour before the start; Josh ran while C warmed up with the team)
7:40: Take G to breakfast, eat hotel oatmeal with craisins and pecans
8:00: Drive to + watch game – LAST tournament game of the season – and possibly forever (or at least a year).
(After some family discussions, C is going to skip club soccer next year to allow him to do more school sports and activities, and to give him some extra time to adjust to new academics as he’s switching to A’s school. He may be back, we will see! He was fine with this – if he had really wanted to do it we would have been okay to let him try!)
9:50: Back at hotel; pack up
10:30: Drive home
12:00: Home, and in a mopey and SOURRRRRR mood, admittedly because I had work I needed to do (for BLP/business stuff, not for clinical), and didn’t really want to do it. (I am not saying this is a great reason to be sour, but just stating the facts! Also, I didn’t mind the work itself, I just did not want to do it at that time and was bemoaning the fact that I never seem to be caught up these days.)
We all had lunch in there somewhere (kids made their own lunch; I think maybe I had a cottage cheese concoction? Honestly not entirely sure, and I didn’t take good notes that day!)
2:00: Nap/scroll, in a procrastinatory way
4:00: Start to do the work I needed to do. Josh took C & G to Publix.
6:30: FINISH. WHEW! Clean up a little around the house.
7:30: Dinner, made by J / G / C!! Chicken enchiladas, tomatoes, refried beans. G is obsessed with cooking right now after seeing Chopped Jr. This is sort of good and sort of annoying at times (ie she thinks she can cook and makes a giant mess . . . ).
8:30: Put G to bed, hang with Josh, sleep by ~10ish
DITL #5: Clinical work
I told you this was a weird week. I don’t usually have clinic on Mondays, but I’m headed out of town to give a BLP-related talk tomorrow so this was my attempt to conserve PTO days (I’ll take one this week instead of the 2 I would have taken if I didn’t work Monday!).
5:00: Up, plan, read
5:45: Headspace, NYT games (no tragic losses this time), and workout –> followed the HCOTF suggestions today (10 min Tunde core, 10 min Ben glutes & legs, 20 min Logan glutes & legs).
7:00: Get kids up, breakfast (oatmeal, pb, raisins), prep lunches, shower
7:40: Drive just A to school (Josh drove C / G)
8:40: Arrive at work, just 10 minutes later than desired this time! Pts / notes / follow up on labs etc between encounters.
12:00: Lunch (premade salad + wheat thins), put up show notes post, walk 20 minutes
1:00: Patients
5:00: Text with neighbor about random things
5:15: Drive to dance pickup – talk to my sister on the way (she has a commute too, so we commonly chat around this time)
6:00: Dance pickup #1
6:15: Home for quick dinner with G (fish, rice, green beans) and chat with our nanny
6:45: Go to get A from dance
7:10: Home from dance pickup #2, chat with A on way
7:30: Nag G to do piano until she does
8:00: Read to G in bed – from Fudge-A-Mania. I always love a good Peter/Fudge book, so this was entertaining.
8:30: Tell big kids I’m going to bed (Josh was on call and had to stay late doing cases). Read, now ALLLLLLMOST finished with Back After This
9:15 or thereabouts: Sleep!
I’m afraid this probably isn’t all that earth shattering! My nonclinical days are more interesting perhaps, so maybe I didn’t pick the best time frame. I will try to do some of those separately after the week is up . . .
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I think all the DITL days are so interesting! It is fascinating to see how other people spend their time.
Meanwhile, I completely empathize with that sour feeling of needing to do something and not wanting to do it. Even if the thing itself isn’t that onerous, sometimes just the pressure of being “forced” to complete a thing makes me grumpy!
Listened to the BOBW episode this morning on divorce. One thing Sarah said (other Sarah!) that has stuck with me all day was “I was the first of my friends to go through divorce,” and that her daughter, in 1st grade, was the “first kid in her class/neighborhood to have parents that got divorced.” This sort of implied……there is more to come.
I know conceptually divorce is common but I don’t personally have much experience with divorce in my family and friend group. But, my oldest is also in 1st grade and Sarah’s comment just got me thinking about all the wonderful families I know in our school community and neighborhood and just like WOW some of these families statistically will experience divorce one day. Will that me be?! I certainly hope not. I’m a few years behind you and Laura but I thought this would make an interesting episode topic–navigating changes that might not be happening to you, but to those you love around you.
I get grumpy about things I have to do all the time. Life can be tedious at times – no apologies needed.
We went through a HUGE Chopped phase in our household and actually had two Chopped meals (one for my parents, one for a set of neighbours) where we teamed up into parent + 1 kid and had a whole menu and star ingredients and it was a lot of work but so much fun!
Sarah, I am curious how you manage your older kids’ bedtime when you go to bed before them and Josh isn’t home. Do they just go to bed … whenever? Do they have a set time that they stick to? What about phones / screens etc? I’m just imagining going to bed before my 10- and 13yo if there’s no one there to make sure they go to bed on time too. How do you guys navigate that?
No screens allowed at that point and they just go to bed. If they want to stay up later reading … I’m ok w that. I left c in his room reading (reading light on only) and A was getting ready for bed. Both are pretty good about it. Josh is also usually home at some point and is often the parent up later. (Just last night he was way late.)
That makes sense! I think we’re all on the night owl end of the spectrum in my family so I just have a hard time imagining how this would work for us, lol.
I approve of a “my week in the life, my rules” posting schedule! Or “twofer for Tuesday”.
Unfortunately I am all too familiar with the “Sunday sours” when it hits me that the weekend is just about done but I’m not ready for Monday yet. I don’t have the answer, I just have the problem.
Hi there. Just wanted to say I’m so impressed with your take on travel soccer. Like, giving him a break so he can do other things but being open to staying in if he really wanted to.
I love all DITL posts- maybe I’m just a nosy person : )
I liked the BOBW podcast yesterday! I was thinking of skipping it since it didn’t seem to apply to me, but it turned out to be really interesting. And, I wish I had a great answer to your question about summer activities for older kids. My daughter does not want to do camp for the second summer in a row, arg. I think as long as they have one or two activities to anchor them- like in my daughter’s case she wants to practice flute, and she plans to go to the gym regularly- it’s okay to let them be a little lazy. The school year is HARD- I’m happy she has some down time.