Amy’s Garden

A Change in Routine

Yesterday Keith worked a career fair at my alma mater, Southwest Baptist University. Nana and Poppy’s cabin, also known as “Poppy’s Lake” is not far from there. So, we headed there for a mini-vacation. I was looking forward to a change in routine.

For example, we had a change in clock shape. Our main clock at home is a boring circle. Not the clock at the cabin.

Soon after arriving, Nana and asked Lydia what she liked about the cabin. Lydia replied, “Nonny, that clock just cracks me up. It’s a square.”

Something else that doesn’t happen at home is eating in front of the TV. In fact, we don’t even have a regular TV. We can watch local channels on Keith’s computer screen, and the kids can watch videos on a portable DVD player. But, this is the cabin. Mommy will ease up a little bit.

Another change in routine that always happens at the cabin is the type of food consumed. Going into the kitchen first thing in the morning usually involves being presented with a plate of pancakes, eggs, bacon, and fried potatoes. Seriously. Yesterday’s evening meal included smoked chicken, ribs, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes and cole slaw. Let’s just say my body is currently going through cabin detox.

I actually tried to keep L&L’s diet similar to what they have at home, but Lydia very much enjoyed her first taste of corn on the cob. Yummy.

And how could I fail to mention the change in sleeping routine? This is the hard part about being away from home. I have trained my children to sleep in their own beds at pretty consistent times of day, but it seems like that gets thrown out the window while we are at the cabin. They try, but it’s hard. Luke’s crib was in the bedroom where Keith and I slept, and he was not interested in sleeping in the crib as long as we were in the room. Go ahead and cross cosleeping off the list of things I will never do as a parent. What do you do when he screams his head off in the crib, but instantly falls asleep when he gets in the big bed right between Mommy and Daddy? (I think there might have been some cosleeping going on in the bedroom with Nana, Poppy, and Lydia, too.)

The weather also made a change for the better this weekend, and we got outside some. Stay tuned….