Today is Thursday. That means I can leave early for work and Davis and Dad have a morning to themselves. I've been toying with the idea for a while that if I'm up feeding Davis at 4am, ending around 5am, that I should just get up and head to the gym. This is the first day I attempted it. Unfortunately, my usual bus doesn't even start running until 6:30am, so today I headed to Mass Ave to catch a different bus that supposedly runs every 10minutes. After waiting for 20minutes I realized I should just go catch my normal bus. Only problem is now there isn't enough time to work out, but I have to go to the gym anyway to shower! So here I am, post gym and shower, with an extremely short workout, in the bathroom of the chemistry building pumping milk (since I have to pump three times on days I head in early). A meeting I should be in has already started and after that is another meeting, then PT, then a flu shot clinic, another pumping that will be later than it should because of PT and meetings. Productive work won't even start until 1pm today (or later?)..then another pumping, then home.
Today is unfortunately kind of typical for me now. A tradeoff between all my responsibilities at work, a drive to do my own actual work, taking care of my body and my health, and being with my son, who is honestly, the best thing in this world in my opinion. What can give? Something has to, and so far I'm not crazy about what has (time with John and my own health and well being is usually what goes first). Can I alternate meetings occasionally, skipping some on a schedule? Do I need to be less involved in other things (like the Gradmoms group and teaching spinning..I've already realized this has to be my last semester teaching cycling at the athletics center)? Do I need to just come to a realization that I can't work like I used to? Do I need to go ahead and continue working at night after Davis has gone to bed and maybe set one night aside of just John and Me time?
Done pumping...time to head to meetings now. Wish me luck!
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