Saturday 6 April 2019

Now Parenting: Week 42

Sunday: Woke before 7am, but after seven hours sleep? With Alexandra for an hour from 7:30, then breakfast, and grading during her snooze. Out by 10:30am for weighing (over 7kg) and brunch with relatives. Home after 12:30pm, into another snooze; handle driveway then grading. Jose arrives before 1:30pm, I go for a 45 min snooze once everyone's awake. More grading. Lower the bottom in the playpen. An hour with Alexandra including a standard snooze. Phone parents 5pm, then drive Jose home, dinner/bedtime routine upon return. Fussing twice between 8 and 9pm. Then after 10:30, so change and attempt to get her back down, we're trading off, it's over an hour and I have a breakdown. Downstairs about midnight, and still little cries.
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Monday: Asleep by 1am, awake from 6am. Little one did seem to want to come to me when I approached but then went back to make breakfast. Left before 8am, quick lookup of Apr 1st probability Q, then standard school. With duty at lunch, grading after school, home before 5pm but Grocer Guy already here. After that, 15 minutes with Alexandra and I'm almost ready to collapse in tears. 15 minutes to recover, then dinner/bed routine. Ordered dinner. Some fussing from 7:30pm, each took a turn, back to me after 8pm. An our later, 9:30pm, I'm toast. Slept for over an hour, awake, then asleep again before midnight.

Tuesday: Awake from 6am; dreamt I was in some repair competition, then playing soccer with exchange student, then writing about it in a diary as rain fell. With Alexandra for half an hour from 7am, then standard school. Lost temper a bit last teaching period, then some RDA. Followed by staff meeting with guest speaker, so not done until after 4:15pm. Home after 5:30pm but others not back until 5:45pm; Alexandra had small star pasta mixed in with lunch. Played off and on for an hour, got video of her moving. Dinner about 7pm (late nap), then bath - and slid forwards in bath, drinking water, which ended that. Some fussing after 8pm, and before 9pm, then after I made dinner, grading. Ate dinner 10:30pm, some fussing 11:30pm, went downstairs.

Wednesday: Woke after less than 6 hours sleep, finished some grading. With Alexandra from 7am for a bit, then prep and breakfast. Standard school, with duty at lunch again, then a fire alarm during prep in the afternoon (small electrical fire). Home before 5pm but then out again to Doctor's. Alexandra's doing well! Then dinner at Jose's, departure after 8pm for bath and bedtime. I'm spent, downstairs after 9:30pm.

Thursday: Wake up 5am, but that's 7 hours sleep. Immediately into grading. With Alexandra for half an hour from 7am, breakfast, head to standard school. But with student protest at end of day, so partial eye on that. Then OSSTF gathering, and home before 6pm. Dishes and tidying, then others home before 7pm for dinner out. Home again before 8pm, bath and bed. I'm toast after comic chat, downstairs 10:30pm.

Friday: Awake 5:30am, did some writing. Little one upset when I tried to walk through bedroom, so morning routine for 15-20 min and shower after. Standard school, anime club at lunch. Met with student and made parent phone calls after school. Home by 5pm, little one is mobile to the point of having taken a tumble. Over an hour with her (puzzle is out now). Dinner, bath and bed - but she wouldn't settle down? That's new. Switched to me, and kind of cried self to sleep. Exhaustion before 10pm, so downstairs. (Incidentally, random feedback on the old "Polynomials" site!)

Saturday: Awake 2:15am to loud cries - peed through sleep sack (second night running). So did some of the things I'd wanted to the prior night, never really got back to sleep, kinda dozed after 4:30? With Alexandra for almost 2 hours from 7am. Looked at the new snow outside (so much for the tiny patch of lawn), chased the little bell around the room, took apart the old easter basket and she turned off the bathroom light. Got ready to go to brunch, then looped home and managed to extend car snooze to 12:40pm. Out again to Alexandra's first invite to a birthday (1st, unicorns), home by 4pm. Bit of downtime and grading (briefly with little one during laundry), then there from 6pm leading into dinner and bed routine. Left after 7pm for last gaming session in far Orleans (Trek), home after 11pm. Toast.

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Item counts run Sunday (Mar 31) to Saturday (Apr 6).

Step Count 2017: About 56,100 (20 stars)
Step Count 2018: Over 60,300 (14 stars)
STEP COUNT 2019: Over 63,100. 10 stars.

FROM 2017:
-Dull week; tidied up, started some Camp Nano.
FROM 2018:
-Pregnancy/Assembly related things, going day by day.

SchoolMail 2017: 54 (2 sent)
SchoolMail 2018: 88 (16 sent)
SCHOOL EMAIL 2019: 107 New (18 sent)
Now at DAY 137 -2(tornado,storm). (Includes 3 PD Days.)


TEACHING RELATED ITEMS:
 -Graded last half of 3U tests
 -Graded last half of other 3U tests
 -Staff Meeting (with guest speaker)
 -Went over 4U quizzes + test tweaks
 -Euclid contest details/invoice
 -Went over 3U quizzes (both classes)
 -Made a number of parent calls
 -Started grading 4U tests

WRITING + ART RELATED ITEMS:
 -Thursday Comic Tea Party chat
 -Toyed with "Time" diary entry
 -CharGen for Trek RP character (Iain Hydout)
 -Formatted 6 more Virga entries (to June)

OTHER ITEMS:
 -Doctor's Appointment Wed
 -Dinner with relatives Wed
 -Post-Work gathering Thurs
 -Dinner out with everyone Thurs
 -Brunch with friends Sat
 -Alexandra @ Khloe's unicorn birthday
 -New Trek RolePlay
 -Lotus Prince's "Deus Ex the Fall" (Parts 1-6)
 -Apr 1st videos (Linkara, Lotus)

UPCOMING FOR SURE:
 -Math meeting.

REGULAR TO-DO LIST:
 -Recap for CanCon 2018
 -Write a TANDQ article on Polling and Bias
 -Write a post about types of praise/encouragement
 -Catching up with web serials/comics (from ~May 2018)
 -Read some of the books sitting at my desk


RH Stress Level: 6 (Break Shoot)

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