{"id":2020,"date":"2007-08-15T14:18:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T21:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/08\/15\/routine-hah-routine-is-for-mortals\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:39:55","slug":"routine-hah-routine-is-for-mortals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/08\/15\/routine-hah-routine-is-for-mortals\/","title":{"rendered":"Routine? Hah! Routine Is For Mortals."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I awoke at 11 a.m. and accomplished many household tasks. I finished a knitting project. Cooked a nice pasta dinner. Took a walk with Husband.<\/p>\n<p>Around 9 p.m. until 1 a.m., Little One was rearranging the furniture inside. I have <em>never<\/em> experienced so much activity. You could see my belly rolling with bumps and nudges, jiggling like Santa&#8217;s. We laughed that she must be getting ready. At one point I think she turned herself sideways; I could feel something large and round and firm in my side, and I think it was her head. That&#8217;s not the direction we want her headed in, and now I don&#8217;t know if she&#8217;s in position anymore. But there&#8217;s time, and the doctor will check tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, as usual I was not sleepy until 3-4 a.m. I went to bed, but I could not get comfortable. I felt crowded in the bed and kept getting up to use the bathroom, because all of me was restless. Finally I gave up and took a hot shower at 5 a.m. Then I dressed and went to the grocery store. I&#8217;m <em>never<\/em> out at this time of day, and it felt like a secret adventure. Shopping was blissfully easy. I was the only customer in the whole store. Staff were in the aisles replenishing shelves, and I was greeted many times. Very pleasant! Perhaps I should shop at this time more often. I found everything I needed.<\/p>\n<p>When I returned home <a href=\"http:\/\/knit-together.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/heart-of-scone.html\">I made scones from scratch<\/a>. And then a wave of sleep washed over me around 7:30 a.m., so I headed to bed. Didn&#8217;t even change into jammies. I awoke when Husband readied for work at 9:30; he asked why I was in street clothes. I told him. He helped me peel them off and get into bed. I slept until 1 p.m. and now feel very off-kilter with the order of ordinary life. My body cycle is as turned around as my daughter is in my belly. I suppose we&#8217;re both preparing. I&#8217;ve given up on routine sleep at the moment, which is good practice for what&#8217;s coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I awoke at 11 a.m. and accomplished many household tasks. I finished a knitting project. Cooked a nice pasta dinner. Took a walk with Husband. Around 9 p.m. until 1 a.m., Little One was rearranging the furniture inside. I have never experienced so much activity. You could see my belly rolling with bumps and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11327,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/11327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}