Quad Venti Caramel Macchiato

Yes.  Four shots of espresso.  And it did NOTHING to dent my fatigue Tuesday while I was in the city with both the boys trying to do all of Berry Boy’s Back To School shopping.  At that moment, I could not figure out why on earth it is so freakin’ difficult to go to the city with the boys.

I figured it out on Wednesday.

Wednesday, I went back to the city sans Berry Baby.  Just with my big guy.  And I discovered that the problem is in fact the little guy.  Shopping is truly more relaxing when you don’t have an overactive toddler standing up in the shopping cart seat trying to jump to your arms when you are five steps away trying to find a size 12 shoe for his brother that looks cool.

Berry Boy and I had a lovely morning together.  We finished up his shopping, got him a Back To School haircut, saw his Dad at work, got a few groceries, and STILL made it back to pick up Berry Baby around noon.  Incredible.

It also made me realize that doing things alone with Berry Boy is a good thing for him and me.  He had a morning of my undivided attention, and I was much less crabby (and maybe, just maybe, a little…fun?) since I didn’t have to catch leaping toddlers who refuse to sit in shopping carts for more than a nano-second.

But back to the espresso.

After I had downed my Venti four shot macchiato on Tuesday, we made it (finally – I totally messed up last time and missed our original appointment a month and a half ago, and this was the first available time I could get in after that fiasco) to the Pediatrician to discuss Berry Baby’s inability to sleep more than two hours in a row at night.  I love the pediatrician.

We agreed to put Berry Baby back on his reflux meds, but we also both agreed that it was a mixture of a medical problem and a bad sleep habit problem.

So, the plan is that once he’s been back on his meds for a week or two and the reflux has settled down, I will tackle the sleeping issues.  Which will likely mean moving Berry Boy to another room temporarily, or that Berry Guy and Berry Boy will be camping in the tent for a few nights.

Should be loads of fun.

I’ve been doing a little research on Sleep Training for toddlers, but any tidbits of wisdom are appreciated.  As are virtual hugs.  And real ones.  And coffee.

Which brings me to running.

You may notice I am not doing too much of that as of late.  I’m feeling a bit of a slump, which is highly unusual.  Normally, when something like this happens, it’s a good thing to sign up for a race, or pick up some new shoes or shorts or something to motivate yourself.

So, I am signed up for a race – my favorite race, which is a 10k up at a nearby resort.  I head up there every Fall with three other girlfriends that I don’t get to hang with very often.  We go up Friday, stay the night, do the run on Saturday, putz around, and have an amazing supper at this fabulous little restaurant that’s on our way home.  So that alone should be motivating me.  But it isn’t.  So I also picked up new shoes at my favorite running store’s Stinky Sneaker Sale.  And they’re awesome shoes.  But I bought them almost a week ago , and I’ve only run in them twice.  TWICE!  That’s really unheard of for me.  Buying new shoes is like buying new cereal – I always have to try it right away.

Even the two runs that I’ve done in the last week have been kind of *meh*.  This summer I’ve been feeling like a superhero after my runs, and this week not at all.  More like a superhero without any real powers or motivation.  It’s discouraging.

And, that’s probably all I have to say.