A Day in the Life

Warning: This blog post is long & has NO pictures. Someday I want to do “A day in the life: Picture Version” but that is not today, so bear with me.

I’ve had quite a few people ask me what it is I do on a daily basis, so I thought it would be fun to make a sample schedule of my day. Keep in mind it’s not perfect, more of just an estimate, as I can’t keep track of Every. Single. Minute. Also, everyday is different, hence why I called it a SAMPLE. Most of time Liz is home to help me out, You will see why things get a little wild when she is gone. Here is a peek into my crazy but fun life…

7:30- First Alarm goes off. Yuck
7:40 I wake up. This is kinda early for me, usually I’m jumping out of bed 5 minutes before I’m supposed to be downstairs. Oops
7:40- 8:00 Get ready & tidy room. “Getting ready” usually consists of throwing on some comfy pants, a tee & throwing my hair in a ponytail. Every once in a while I throw some mascara in there.
8:00 Wake up girls for school- I hate this part because I remember how much I used to hate waking up for school. Now the roles are reversed & I am the bad guy. Luckily, they are pretty good about it.
8:10 Make Mackenzie Breakfast. Usually Aunt Jemina’s mini pancakes. Hannah on the other hand, never eats breakfast. Don’t know why.
8:15 Pack lunches. Always PB&J, snacks & a Capri sun & make water bottle.
8:35 Start first load of laundry for the day. First of many to come.
8:40 Leave for school- I usually don’t take them, so this was a little twist. Little man was still sleeping with Liz.
9:00 Home. School is just up the street so the actual drop off process takes longer than the drive to school. Pull in the garbage from the curb.
9:05 Empty Dishwasher & load dirty ones
9:25- Clean table from breakfast & switch out laundry
9:35 Start washing Kenzie’s sheets. Liz (& I) like the sheets washed once a week each. So I try to wash one kid’s a day on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday.
9:40 Christian wakes up. He slept in this morning
9:45 A worker shows up to start working. I think we have gotten too used to having so many in our house.
10:00 Christian & I eat breakfast. I found its easiest to eat when he eats, otherwise I wouldn’t have much time to.
10:20 Clean up his mess. He is a messy boy. When he is done with his food he lets me know but pushing all the extra to the ground. Lovely, I know.
10:30 He decides he wants to play on the back porch, so we hang out there for a while
10:45 Poopy bum. Can I just say that I hate morning poops? My nose hairs are not ready for that smell yet.
10:50- 11:00 He plays around the house for a few minutes.
11:00- 11:20 Chrisitian’s teeth are trying to come in, which makes for one fussy boy. So yes all I did was walk around and hold him for 20 minutes because that’s all he would let me do.
11:30 I finally decide to take him outside to see if he’ll let me put him down because my arm is about to fall off. He played with all the Halloween decorations and pushed around his car.
11:35 Hannah comes home from school early because she is having breathing problems again. Dang asthma.
11:45 Londyn is finally up & downstairs. She usually hangs out to play in her room for a while after she wakes up.
11:50 Make Londyn breakfast. Usually Eggo Waffles, which happen to be my personal favorite to.
12:15 Ride with Liz to get Hannah’s prescription filled
1:00- 1:30 Home & Lunch time. Londyn almost always has a ham sandwhich with “No Cheese” she always tell me like I’m going to forget. Christian eats ravioli or any other kind of pasta in red sauce. Just about the only thing he can/will eat with 4 teeth. Hannah had eaten Mcdonalds on the way home from school. Liz went and picked up Kenzie while we were having lunch.
1:30-2:00- Lunch clean up, I sometimes feel it is always clean up time ;)
2:00- 2:30 Liz figured all the stuff that was left by the construction workers in Hannah’s room could contribute to her Asthma, so we decide to move it all out to the garage.
2:30 The maids come and start cleaning
2:45 Fold laundry
3:00- 3:20 Snack time for Christian- Well not really just a snack, but not really a meal. Just in between to tide him over until dinner. Today was cheese balls, carrots & water melon.
3:20-3:40 Clean up- Kitchen, play area. Empty and reload dishwasher again.
3:45- 5:00 We played up in the playroom upstairs to get out of the way while the maids cleaned downstairs. We played store, school, Barbie games online and just about any other game you can think of that little girls like to play.
5:00- 5:30 Migrate downstairs, order dinner & just hang out.
5:45- 6:15 Pickup dinner @ Chili’s
6:30- Eat up!
7:00 Begin Cleanup. The basics like clearing off the table and throwing away trash.
7:15 Finally get around to remaking Kenzie’s beds
7:30- 8:00 Bath time. Yup they like to take long baths. Christian is usually a raisin before he is ready to get out.
8:00-9:00 Playtime/ Get started on homework for tomorrow.
9:15 Vitimans & getting ready for bed. Ya know, peeing & such.
9:30: Bed time for the girlies.
9:40 Christians bed time. Or at least I tried. Little stinker apparently wasn’t tired because he took a late nap while I was picking up Chilis. Oh well.
9:50 Watching the Monday night football game to see if we could see Jayson. We did :)
10:50- Christian finally falls asleep
11:00- 11:20 Liz & I talk. Were like sisters.
11:30- Bath & talk to mom. Okay, so maybe I’m weird because I still take bath’s. & maybe I’m even weirder cuz I talk to my mom almost every night while I’m in the bath. It’s called multitasking people.
11:45-1:00 Computer: Blogging(this stuff takes A L O T of time!) , email, pinterest(my addiction), aka me time.
1:15 Bed time for me! Just so you know by the time this time rolls around, I have no trouble sleeping :)