1/10

I've been totally swamped this week with editing work; I have a client who had to move up their deadline by several months, so I've somehow managed to squeeze in 25 hours of editing around everything else--oh, and the kids had three snow days! Whew! Basically I haven't slept much this week.

Anyway, here's the rest of the days...

1/7: 30-day shred video and a mile walking on the treadmill. I was really hoping for more but I ended up having to run a ton of errands--plus editing.
1/8: Nothing. We had 30 people over in the morning for a snow day playdate--all indoors since it was -38 outside--and then I somehow played with the kids in the afternoon, made dinner, and then did 5 hours of editing as soon as Neil came home and went to book club 2 hours late. Home about 11:30 and I just collapsed into bed.
1/9: 4 mile run and another 3 hours of editing after we returned from dinner with friends
1/10: 5 mile run and six hours of editing. Holy crap I'm so tired. It's now midnight and I still need to finish up my lesson for church tomorrow (usually I have those done by Tuesday every week, but this week has been crazy. Oh, and classes start on Monday so I've been prepping for that too.)

I have been terrible about paying attention to the clock on all of these runs, as I've been feeling totally exhausted on each one, so I've been trying to ignore how slow I am! Tonight's was somewhere under 9:36/mile for those 5--maybe 9:24, but no faster. Sad day. Oh well...what can I expect when it's midnight as I type this standing on the treadmill?

Not my best week life-wise...I feel like I have missed out on a ton of stuff. I've made dinner every night but I've left to go work at least twice during dinner. I've read scriptures with the kids 6/7 nights, but only read stories probably 3-4 times. I've sat down to play with them a handful of times, but there hasn't been much creative, fun, interesting mothering happening around here lately. On the plus side, we did have friends over, I cooked with Abigail every night and made sure that everyone did chores and homework and piano, we went to the library, we went to the donut place, and Neil has been doing awesome things with them (while I was locked up with my laptop today he was playing Settlers of Cataan with them and teaching them how to make molded chocolates...but if this week has taught me anything, it's that I definitely don't want to work this much on a habitual basis...preferably not at all! But I AM grateful for this editing gig; it's made enough thus far to make up the salary gap created by only teaching one class. Huge huge blessing!