That shitty feeling when you go out for a jog and you’re really excited to check your phone to find out how well you did, only to realise you forgot to start your running app. That weird feeling when you remember you used to run without a smartphone and it still made you feel good. And, finally, the feeling of shame when you realise that today’s run doesn’t count in your mind because it’s not saved in your app and you can’t think of it differently.
Now I have to do it all over again. Shit. Cancel that conference call.
Category: Moments in time
Pizza and beer for breakfast
Driving Mac and Molly to the daycare today was great. First they were laughing hysterically for at at least five minutes at Mac making silly noises and then Mac started shouting “Beer!” to which Molly replied with “Pizza!”
“Beer!”, “Pizza!”, “Beer!”, “Pizza!” – I guess that’s what they’ll be having for breakfast then.
Grumpy wedding anniversary
It’s almost 4 a.m. and, because Molly’s sick and can’t sleep, I also only slept for half an hour so far. I’m going to be very grumpy tomorrow, Molly’s going to be very grumpy tomorrow and if she doesn’t fall asleep in 4 minutes, I’m waking Jay up so he’ll also be (very) grumpy tomorrow.
Knowing all this for a fact, I’d like to use this opportunity to wish my wonderful husband a very happy wedding anniversary.
I love you and I wanted to publicly announce that before we all kill each other tomorrow.
First carnival party
Lara and Molly took Željka and me to a carnival party.
Molly was supposed to be a panda but even though she knows nothing about animals, she wanted to apply makeup herself. She also refused to wear her hood with a panda face so she pretty much looked like a toddler in pajamas with a muddy face. Lara was a princess fairy.
Independent baby
Molly started the day today by going into the lounge on her own, finding and opening her Duplo and playing with it for half an hour … while we were still lying in bed.
Good times ahead!
Learning Chinese
I just spent the last seven minutes of my life watching a youtube video on learning Chinese and repeating after the teacher. Those accents are difficult!
Then I caught myself doing it and realised I had NO IDEA how or why I started doing it in the first place.
Throw the park into a bin!
Molly decided to throw all the sticks, rocks and grass from the park in the bin and we’re not leaving until the whole park’s in there.
Except for a big stone that works perfectly as a phone.
Why not sleeping is good
So many positive things about a 16-month-old toddler still not sleeping through the night!
Here are just a random few:
-you get a great cardiovascular workout by getting out of bed every couple of hours;
-you exercise your patience by trying to calm down a wriggly toddler and stay calm yourself;
-you develop intellectually by reading in the middle of the night while waiting for your child to stop singing;
-you get to spend so much more time with your lovely precious baby who’s growing up so fast;
-you have a constant source of inspiration for your blog posts which bring you closer to your friends…
Thank you, dear Molly, for not allowing me to waste my time on stupid stupid stupid sleep. Who needs sleep? I hate sleep.
An afternoon at the lake
We managed to catch the last rays of sunshine at the lake. There was a homeless guy sitting on a bench, drinking a beer. People pretended not to see him and he stared at them, singing loudly and angrily as they walked past. He looked lonely so I smiled at him as we walked by. Molly probably did too because he gave her an embarrassed look and he didn’t sing behind our back. We also saw lots of ducks, swans and old people. Molly touched a few piles of dirty snow and then it was time to go home.