A relatively boring day....

J began the first day of his new routine today which was mainly being put to bed slightly later. T and I knew it was coming for a while as when he was put into bed at 7pm he would chatter and play in bed until long after 7:30 and while he was not misbehaving we both knew it was because he didn't need to be in bed that early anymore! This brought a bit of a sigh from me as the evening is my time, I am a morning person and often up long before anyone else (6am) and spend all day being active as I simply hate sitting around doing nothing. Therefore as of about 6pm I've had enough, my patience is thinner and overall I want to just sit and do nothing until I wander up to bed at about 9:30/10pm. T and I decided last night we should push J's bedtime back to 7:30 and shift his daily routine by about half an hour. 

J woke slightly earlier than usual (typical on the first day of a later bedtime!) and I've started to let him prepare some of his food/drink independently. So he made his own drink of milk and helped to butter his toast and put pate on it (his favourite breakfast which he wants pretty much everyday!) and then while he went out for a wander with T I got 45mins reading done for my course starting in Sept. Then I went off to my pilates class.

Pilates is my stress release and also my hobby I suppose you could say. I have only been doing it for a year or so and now attend two classes a week. I love the drive it gives me to push myself to work harder, hold a position for longer and see the progression in myself. I won't lie I like the fact that I am pretty good at it too otherwise I'm quite sure I wouldn't have kept going! 

After class we all had lunch together and then I took J off to his friends house for a play date which went reasonably well - a few tears, disagreements a small tantrum on leaving and one wee accident is actually quite a success! On the way home I knew he was tired and so we did dinner - homemade sweet and sour noodles with prawns and veg - and then a little TV before bath and bed. Funnily enough he went straight to sleep! We then settled down for a relaxing time in front of the TV only to be treated with a power cut.  We suddenly realise how little in the evening we spend talking to each other, we just sit together and watch something or T will play the ps4 and I will roam about on the Internet. After initial jokes about of oh no now we have to talk to each other and fancy a game of chess it was quite nice to actually talk to each other without being interrupted every other sentence by J. After a relatively short amount of time power was restored and funnily enough ever since we have assumed our normal positions of gaming and internetting!

So yes a relatively boring day today I suppose really, I'm sure that trend won't last long though! Not with J around! I must start putting pictures in my posts.....I'll work on that tomorrow! 

Night folks,

A xxx