As William kindly reminded me, it’s been a more than a month since I last blogged and I’ve left you all hanging with my last post.  Life, since I have started working, has had its challenges and has been filled with highs, lows, and really, low lows.  I have been extremely busy adjusting to my new role as a working mother and it hasn’t been easy. 

My day usually starts around 5:00 am when the annoying alarm on my phone goes off.  I lie in bed for another half hour or so and then drag my heavy, sleep deprived body out of bed.  Then the morning goes as follows:  take a shower, get breakfast ready for the kids, prepare Aidan’s lunch box, wake up the kids, feed them breakfast, get myself dressed, get the kids dressed, head out the door, drop the babies off at daycare, and finally get to school.  Thankfully, William (who takes Aidan to the Montessori) has recently taken over the responsibility of getting Aidan fed and ready for Montessori.  Apparently, I was taking too long getting Aidan ready and it was making William late for work.  I’m glad that I have one less child to deal with in the morning, but I have to say that William has the easier child.  He has the one that has finally learned to behave (for the most part), can brush his own teeth, and get himself ready in the morning as long as you tell him what he has to wear.  I, on the other hand, am stuck with the babies who require constant attention and fight with me when I try to change their diapers. 

Anyway, as I was saying…. I’m usually in school till about 5:00 pm, some days later.  By the time I pick Mark and Caitlin up from day care and get home I am too tired to even think about what to do for dinner.  It is exhausting to even consider cooking, especially when the babies are starving and tired.  That’s when the take out menu becomes my best friend.  In fact, last week alone we had take out at least twice.  By the way, I don’t think my waist line is able to handle all this feasting I am doing.  By 8:00 pm the kids are fed, showered, and put down for the night.  I am exhausted and all I want to do is go to bed, but there is still a lot of work to be done.  I still have grading to do, lessons to plan, emails to answer, materials to prepare, etc.  I usually end up going to bed closer to midnight.  This is basically the routine for the week.

Come Friday I can’t even think straight.  In fact, last Friday, the family and I went out for dinner after work.  I had a hard time staying awake during the drive home.  My plan, once we got home, was to lay down for a bit in order to gather up my energy to put the kids to bed, but things didn’t go as planned.  Yes, I was able to lie down, but instead of gaining energy to do the task at hand, I found myself in a comatose state, unable to move even to help William put the kids down.  I didn’t get out of this coma until early Saturday morning.  That is how exhausted I was.

All in all though, life hasn’t been so bad.  Sure it has been crazy and hectic, but I think I am slowly learning how to handle it.  I’m not all there yet but I think by the end of this school year, I’ll be able to deal with my crazy life… or so I hope 🙂  For now I am in “survival mode” and I try to get through my challenges one day at a time.