I woke up Saturday (which is when I was supposed to be writing this post) feeling AWESOME again!!! I slept as long as I could Saturday morning (Cat's and I had a plan to run at 1 p.m., so I knew I could sleep in until Maya woke up, which is always around 8 a.m.). Maya came in our room and for the first time in months... she smelled poopy - she had diarrhea in the night :( Jake got up and cleaned her, because I still hadn't sat up, I wasn't sure if I would feel better. But to my surprise as soon as I did, I could tell I felt at least 60& better. I told Cats if I even felt 30% better I'd be running our 9 mile run with her... As soon as I could tell I was SO much better I got to work. I wanted to rid our house of whatever bug was plaguing it!!! I figured I had a good 4 hours and made my list in my mind of what I could do...
Well, any of you that know me, know that when I make my "To Do List" it is inevitably much more than I can really do in the space of time I have alloted myself. Even if I tone it down... I just think I am SuperWoman and will somehow be able to beat the odds... Saturday I just wanted to clean, clean, clean... To get any trace of sickness out and to play catch up since I was sick or taking care of sickies all week. And that is what I did. I fed and got the kids ready and then continued to Clean and Clean and Clean... Cats ended up going skiing, and we decided to run our long run Monday. Her cross training was skiing and mine was house cleaning. This was good news because I could just continue to clean. We still had Christmas to take down and put away too. By the end of the day and I mean by the time all the rest of the family was in bed I honestly felt 90% better and had even decided to eat more than crackers, 7up, and bread. And I still felt good. It was fabulous!!!
Since my camera battery is dead & I cannot find my battery charger (I could have taken before and after pics and you truly would have been impressed) and I think it is more fun to look at words w/ pictures... Here is what I feel like I looked like - except I was wearing the same thing ALL DAY...
All this cleaning leads me to my sad of the day... An Almost ALL NIGHTER
It was a poor choice I admit looking back on it now but it was SOOOOO tempting... Everyone is in bed. I have time to myself. I can work and work without any interruptions... No one requiring anything of my time. I can get SOOOO MUCH done. To anyone who is not a mom. You are laughing at this. Anyone cleaning all day since about 8 a.m. until the early hours of the morning because she wants to is plain loony. I think I would have thought it was crazy too but it was something between determination to get that bug out of there and start the week off right that got me in the mess. So, I gave in and cleaned and cleaned and caught up all my laundry loads and... WOW!!! Our house looked awesome... but it spiralled downhill from there to my sad of the day for today... Sunday. The reason it was the sad of the day was because I gave in to the temptation instead of using my better judgement...
Now you have to know, the reason I did not right this post at the close of Saturday was because I was still cleaning - and then I figured it was Sunday when I went to sleep so I might as well right it after I slept a couple hours...
What I learned...
Don't give in!!! I still felt great (as far as my health) when I laid down to sleep!!! I still feel great today and I only got a few hours of sleep and no nap yet, but it was still wrong. Technically... It was even Sunday and I was not keeping the Sabbath Holy... So, as a mom or as anyone, use your better judgement. Even if you want to stay up and clean the house all night long, okay?!!
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