August 4th

This morning I planned to sleep in however forces were against me. Marc's alarm went off at 7 am, Elizabeth climbed into bed at 7:05, and a client called at 7:20. I only wanted to sleep in until 7:45. Oh well.

I went to Aquafit and ended up wetter than my participants in the pool. Holy sweat. In the afternoon I began feeling a little overwhelmed with work so I took a break and walked as Elizabeth drive her Corvette to Esso. It was not the relaxing, take a breather walk I was hoping for. I was quite stressed with her sudden stop, starts and indecisiveness while on the road or in driveways, of course she never did it on the safe sidewalks. I got an ice cap that I am pretty sure she made with cream even though I asked for it to be made with chocolate milk (since that is 1%mf). I downed it because I was so hot rather than savouring it as I had intended. When I got home I was so exhausted. Elizabeth got invited to the neighbours to play. My plan was to play a quick game on the computer and then was cooler and less frustrated vacuum the house. While somehow I ended up working on "Family, Birth and Baby show" stuff (a big event the Halton Peel Doula CARE chapter is putting on in September), took another call from my client with an update, called the back up doula to update her and then answered a ton of questions about teaching prenatal classes. Next thing I knew I was on the phone again, this time to my sister, it was 4 pm and my floors still weren't vacuumed. My amazing husband came home made dinner, fixed some small details on the Family Birth and baby show website, vacuum the house, did dishes and then gave Elizabeth a bath (I was not allowed to help with the last one so I came downstairs to start my lower body workout instead. I really didn't feel up to it since my muscles were quite stiff and tender from yesterday's muscle conditioning class. But the plan was to do it anyway, and then hop into a super hot epsom salt bath with lavendar vanilla bubbles and mellow out. It has been a busy day, though it sounds as though Marc did everything I was working the whole time as well, but I figure it is important to praise him once and a while since everyone already knows I am a super woman, hee hee hee.