Third time's a charm

I think my hormones have settled out this week, YAY, I had rather a rocky start to the week but I have been feeling a lot better in general. We crammed a whole lot into the last week; autumn festival, walking, hairstyling, all the while keeping my house in a reasonable condition (up to date on dishes and vacuuming up Hazel's mess every night), I even had my new oven installed.
   The most fun that Hazel, Briar and I had this week was going to the Steiner School Autumn Festival on the 1st of May. We go to the Steiner playgroup every Monday for stories and songs, fruit salad and bread making but this week on Wednesday we were invited down to the Port of Bairnsdale to have a picnic lunch and songs and a nature walk to celebrate the start of Autumn, one song was stuck in my head for days afterwards, I think I sung it when I was in kindergarten at a Steiner school (Hai ho the dairy oh, the farmer takes a wife), we opted out of the nature walk though as we had walked there and still had to walk home, plus it was absolutely freezing that day. I think Hazel really enjoyed being around all those kids and seeing her playgroup teacher though so it was worth the cold she caught and passed on to everyone else.
    Last week I mentioned that I wanted to go for a walk in the mornings but to do it without my kidlets it would have to be at 3.30am. I am proud to report that I walked on over half of last weeks walks (4/7) and two of the mornings I missed were because I had been out walking late the night before. I started out walking the block twice in 24 minutes and ended walking it twice in 23 minutes which pleased me a great deal. Unfortunately  for my walks, Briar has started waking at 3.30 for his morning feed instead of waiting until I got back like he did at the start. It means I have to either let him cry for 23 minutes (which wouldn't kill him but might wake Jimmi or Hazel) or set my alarm half an hour earlier again, I'm thinking of choosing the latter as I really don't see it working out with me waking even earlier. Also I have decided that starting tomorrow I will start slowly buildiing up to running around the block by running one house further each morning, I hope to report that I can run seven houses next week.

     The last four nights of this week (and a contributing factor to me not walking) is that I had been staying up  until 11 'dreading Jimmi's hair. If you don't know what it is think 'dirty hippie', it's purposely knotting your hair into chunks and can look very good on some people, the problem is unless you want to fork out hundreds of dollars at a hairdressers it is a very long and possibly unattractive process. I sped Jimmi's along by 'back combing' his hair so that the chunks formed but it will still take months for them to 'tighten and lock' properly. ( more information on dreads here --->http://www.dreadlocks.com/). I spent 20+ hours on his hair the past week and I think they look quite nice so he'd better keep them or I will not be a happy chappy.
     All in all I think I may be starting to doubt the conviction I had that I was going crazy, I also did my nails all pretty and 'ladybug themed'. I look forward to updating you all next week and hopefully reporting that I am getting more sleep.