A Day of Rest

I'm glad I identified yesterday that today and possibly tomorrow needed to be quiet. I did my yoga and stretches this morning - 15 minutes! I've reached my week one target with a day to spare. Aside from that I had a healthy breakfast, managed without much difficulty to eat healthily and track my food. And I rested. Lots of rest. I actually had a planned nap this afternoon. I'm still tired but an early night and as quiet a day possible tomorrow will go a long way to rectifying the fatigue.

The lupus means I need to be extra aware of being too busy, pushing myself too hard or not eating/sleeping properly. It's a learning curve that I'm sure I'll be on for a long time. I'm getting better at being still and not feeling lazy on the days when the fatigue is particularly bad. I have a bigger difficulty with remembering to rest early and often on the days when I feel okay. It's those days when I tend to push myself that I set up a flare.

Mike and I took the kids for a walk/ride around the park after they had dinner. Alice is so confident on her bike although she does need to work on braking. Josh is proud of himself as he speeds around on his Chuggington bike - he's stubborn on the hills, refusing any help. We've started a system of restricting TV that requires the kids to "buy" half an hour of TV with an hour of physical or mental activity. So half an hour of piano practise and half an hour of bike riding would together purchase half an hour of TV time. The kids aren't allowed to sit in front of the telly for more than half an hour (we'll allow a movie on the weekend or special occasion). The kids are playing together better and don't seem to miss the TV at all, although Mike and I do a bit. We had some awesome dressing up this morning.

I'll be doing the registration for home-schooling in the next week. I'm also going to start on my programming - we've got some interesting ideas for project work. Alice made a slot-together mouse today, which means she'll be able to make animals for our cardboard farm that I was planning for the foci of our first unit of work.

Tired but happy.