Unexpected moments

It's late morning on Saturday. I've already done a short run (1st week of Portland Fit!). Since I have a half marathon in less than 2 months I wasn't going to try for more than the 3 miles with Portland Fit and have done SO well at getting up early but when I rolled out of bed at 5:30 this morning to top off the baby before heading out, I was so tired! I took longer than necessary to start getting ready and decided that since I've been so good and was going out later, skipping the extra 3-4 miles I was going to do this morning would be okay. It was nice to go back to bed. That's one thing I kind of like about the baby waking up for feedings in the middle of the night. It prepares me for getting up later. I love being able to go back to bed and know that I'll be up soon. So when the alarm goes off it's not so shocking as it is when you've slept through until then.

Back to my unexpected moments... we put baby down for a haphazard nap. In other words, in her bed while everyone was still in the room hanging out, not wrapped up, with her yaya (pacifier) and blanket. She drifted off to sleep with no fuss and I assumed it wouldn't last long, like her normal morning naps. But it may have been late enough that it will be longer. We'll see. She might be waking by the time I'm finished here.

Hubby likes to take the girls out for a long walk on Saturdays. Normally it's just the older 2 but last week he took all 3. This morning he decided that while the conditions were good he'd head out so he just left with the 2 older ones in the double jogger. We bundle them up, cover them with blankets, give them snacks and water and of course, yayas, and sometimes a toy and they are well trained to ride the 3-4 miles to the play area and the 3 miles back.

So here I am with baby asleep and no one else at home. Lately because I've been trying to play more with the kiddos to keep them out of trouble and engaged, I have to work so hard for time to do the regular things like laundry and food that having spare moments is so uncommon that I don't even know what to do when I have them. When I got home from my run this morning and realized that with hubby home all day I would end up with extra time to do things I suddenly realized I didn't even know what was waiting on my task list. I've given up on task lists because they just never get done.

I put in a load of laundry, decided to document my life here and am going to clean the kitchen and work on cleaning off/organizing my desk. Which, when it's clean, is a lovely place. I doubt I'll get through all of that before baby is awake, but we'll see how it goes. And I suppose I should clean at least my toilets today. And vacuum. Our floor is nasty and the toilets are getting a ring around them (that's when I know they are due for a cleaning, I don't worry about it until then, hah! ;).