Well, yesterday we hit 10 weeks! I can't believe it. I feel like it's taken this long, but we're finally getting into the swing of things. We're getting sleep finally on a regular basis as of about two weeks ago. For those of you who haven't experienced this before, I really cannot describe the absolute joy of having a child finally start to sleep through the night on a regular basis.
I'm still really tired most of the time, but it's manageable now that I'm regularly getting 6-7 hours of sleep at a time each night. However, it makes me really jealous about my sleep, so I find it difficult to wake up as early as I probably should to get things done in the morning, or stay up a little later after he goes to bed so I can finish up some chores.
Chores will be the topic of this post. Where do people with young children find the time to do housework? I've been killing myself at work lately (another post for another time, maybe), and when I get home I have to be slave to an infant who constantly needs fed or changed or just held. He's sitting on my lap right now as I type this because I tried to put him in his swing and he got upset with me. Megan has had a bit of trouble adjusting her work schedule now that she has to fit in time to pump, and she's got to pump at home, too, so she's tired from work every day, and unavailable for chucks of time in the evening when she's hooked up to the pump. Thus I'm often the one throwing something together for us to eat (our diet has really gone to hell these past three months), washing bottles (we go through a ton of those every day), and doing any chore that is so pressing that it can't be put off (I'm talking about you, dirty litter box).
By the time we eat, do those pressing chores, and get baby to sleep, it's 10:00, and I'm wiped out. Every pot and pan in my house is sitting out on my counter dirty because I just don't have the time or energy after work to clean them. Megan vacuumed yesterday for the first time in a while (honestly I don't know how long it's been). My bathroom really needs scrubbed. If Megan doesn't do laundry this weekend I'm not going to have socks to wear next week.
As an aside, here I am sitting and typing this post instead of doing any of those things. I'm tired and baby is being needy, which are both good excuses, but mostly I just don't feel like doing chores right now.
It used to be that Megan and I would get the serious house cleaning done on the weekends. We could each clean a room on a Saturday morning, then another on Sunday, and the house would be in good shape by the time we were done. Plus we'd still have time in the afternoons/evenings to do things like go out or see people.
Now mornings are filled with sleeping as long as possible, then dealing with baby when he wakes up. He's most needy in the morning. By the time we're up and moving most weekends, it's nearly noon, so our mornings are shot. Then we've basically had something going on every weekend since we came home from the hospital. We've had parties and events and people coming over, without end really. Even this weekend, I'll be helping my sister move and then I have a spaghetti dinner to attend for a band fundraiser. Hopefully I'll have Sunday to just stay home. I've been trying to plan that for weeks.
Then again, even if I do get Sunday home with the family, am I really going to want to spend the whole day doing housework? I doubt it. So I guess my question isn't how do people have time to do chores, but where do they find the motivation?
I'm at a loss. Time to go change a diaper.
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