Working towards routines

This week's goal is to try to work on routines a little. Not schedules: that would imply things happen at a particular time, and we are so far from that. But routines: the rhythm and order in which things generally flow.

So, this morning after what turned out to be an 8 am feed (I was up from the 4 am feed, but see, that was "night") I put Noah in his playmat for his 20 minutes of staring wonder time and talked to him while I threw a sausage/lentil/potato/zucchini/red pepper/NO garlic or onion soup in the crock pot. That worked so well I felt full of energy, so I threw on some clothes and put Noah in his car seat and went outside in a state of mild dishelvement for a 20 minute walk with him in the stroller-travel-system. It was a toss up between that and the Snugli, since I don't feel uber-confident with the sling and his neck muscles yet, and the Snugli was not readily found.

He fell asleep happily enough and I got some sunshine and a DVD into the mail. And a start on a post-partum exercise something-or-other. Then I read a few things online and ate some more breakfast (yoghurt and fruit at 6 seemed far away) and now he's about to wake up for the next feed.

Yay!

Shandra