phox50's Journal

busy week
Nov 09 2009 21:20

I've had a crazy busy week. My son and DIL have gone abroad for 8 days, leaving 4 cute, exhausting kids. I do breakfast, afterschool, supper, baths and bed most nights. A babysitter arrives before supper and stays till morning. The other grandma cooks and delivers supper, picks up the laundry and delivers it clean and folded. Various aunts and neighbors do carpool. Tonight I took the 4 kids (with the sitter) out to dinner with my mom to celebrate her birthday. I am so lucky, I shouldn't complain about not losing weight. Tired, blessed, and slightly nauseous from chocolate soufle birthday cake. Next week I will do better with eating.

Interesting, when my own kids were little and I was running around like this everyday, I didn't put on weight. I also wasn't so exhausted. The whole metabolism must have been different.