On back-to-back days this week, co-workers of mine generously supplied donuts for breakfast. I was helpless as the sugary treats were lingering around my cubicle for 48 hours. I think I had about five donuts between Thursday morning and Friday afternoon. Not that I am Superman, but if I were – donuts would certainly be my kryptonite. Fortunately, I combated the donut attack by walking a few miles on Saturday morning during, and in preparation for, our community-wide yard sale. I was up at the ungodly hour of 5 am yesterday dragging my rear-end and our merchandise from the garage to the edge of the driveway, carrying some tables from our backyard patio to the front of the house (I couldn’t find enough flat surfaces to display our wares!), and walking up and down the block mingling with neighbors and potential customers. I did all of this on, virtually, an empty stomach, having just eaten a quickie piece of wheat toast with peanut butter on my way outside. My body was grateful for the modest intake.
Donuts aside, my family’s eating has not been right for the past couple weeks. Our motivation to prepare and cook full meals has waned of late causing us to eat pancakes, eggs, cereal and soup for dinner quite often over the past two weeks (at least). We are making a shopping trip today, at Whole Foods, but my upcoming business trip will once again derail any grandiose culinary accomplishments. Cooking, however, isn’t the only endeavor we have not been motivated to engage in. We are very much behind schedule in readying the nursery for baby number two. She will be here in, most likely, less than four weeks and her room is still a mess. It is a very unsettling feeling, to be filled with a general sense of overwhelming laziness. Compounding the issue is that this sense of malaise has enveloped both my wife and I simultaneously – making household productivity (laundry, cooking and just about anything else) nearly impossible.
Springtime is not supposed to be like this! Maybe our bodies and minds are taking time off before the baby arrives, knowing that we will be on overdrive for months with middle-of-the-night awakenings and lots of other extra work (washing cloth diapers, cleaning breast pump equipment and baby bottles, etc.)
Gosh, I hope that is the answer!
Until Tuesday…
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