SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2010
(Next time, I think I'll just do A Day in the Life . . . This is getting tedious.)
12:00 a.m. - Sleep
1:00 a.m. - Sleep
2:00 a.m. - Adana up again (she doesn't usually get up in the middle of the night), this time on Nathan's side. He gets to take her potty and tuck her in.
3:00 a.m. - Sleep
4:00 a.m. - Sleep
5:00 a.m. - Sleep
6:00 a.m. - Sleep. I hear Emma get up at 6:30 and go downstairs to watch cartoons. It is impossible for her to sleep in. I have to get up to let the #^%! cat out.
7:00 a.m. - Adana up. I make sure the boys are getting up and ready.
8:00 a.m. - I take a car full of boys to Poulsbo for the last week of their Boy Scout Merit Badge Clinic.
9:00 a.m. - Meet up with Jenny for a run. We run 4 miles along the southwest beach. It is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. The sun is shining on the still water, the mountains rise above us with their sparkling white peaks. A perfect morning run.
10:00 a.m. - I make myself breakfast (I'm back to my usual spinach omelet). Nathan leaves for the lake house. We have renters coming next weekend, so he needs to finish some work on it. Emma & Adana head out into the neighborhood to find friends to play with. Adana brings Sophie (another little 4-year old) back to play.
11:00 a.m. - Catch up on email/news/blog reading. Shower.
12:00 p.m. - Adana & Sophie go back to her house for a picnic. I start cleaning. Yes, Friday is supposed to be "cleaning day," but it is impossible to keep a house clean with this many people going in and out. I also find a plastic tote full of old baby clothes, and I start to sort through them. Sadly, they are nearly all moth-eaten and yellowed.
1:00 p.m. - The boys get home from Merit Badge Clinic (eating the last bites of DQ Blizzards. The carpool mom who picked them up is way nicer than their own mom). Adana & Sophie come back to our house, this time to play school with Emma in the garage. That lasts all of 10 minutes, until Emma annoys Adana to tears by being a "mean teacher." I think Emma has sat in on too many of my homeschool lessons.
2:00 p.m. - My friend, Mariann, and her son, Izaac, stop by to play. Jared's friend, Harrison, also comes over. It is a GORGEOUS sunny day in the mid-50's. The kids play outside while we sit in my sunny kitchen and chat. The only problem is that we are interrupted every few minute by some kid or another needing to tell us/ask us something. Sigh. We give up on our "adult alone" time and head outside.
3:00 p.m. - Harrison's mom comes to pick him up, so we visit with her for awhile. One of life's greatest pleasures has to be visiting with friends on a warm, sunny afternoon while the kids run around the neighborhood playing and laughing. We walk over to the park across the street and the kids play there for awhile.
4:00 p.m. - Come back from the park. Call in all my kids from the neighborhood. Get them started on dinner.
5:00 p.m. - I pick up Outi & Mariann and we head to Silverdale. Outi runs a couple errands, then we try to find a place to eat dinner. Apparently there is a Tolo this evening, so all the restaurants are packed with scantily-clad teenage girls and their oogling zit-faced dates. I just keep muttering, "If my daughter ever dresses like that . . ."
6:00 p.m. - We end up eating dinner at the mall Food Court. Pathetic, but by that time we were both starving and running late.
7:00 p.m. - Go to the Stake center for the adult session of Stake Conference. We sit next to some friends who were there with their 7-month old twins - a boy & a girl. So we get to pass them around. So freakin' cute! And so nice to be able to hand them back when they get fussy.
8:00 p.m. - Still in Stake Conference. Thank goodness for an iPhone with a fully charged battery and lots of games. :-)
9:00 p.m. - Stop by Central Market (my favorite local grocery store) on our way home. Pick up some Greek yogurt and turkey bacon for dinner tomorrow evening. When Nathan's not around, we like to eat breakfast for dinner because he doesn't like it.
10:00 p.m. - Home to a quiet house. The boys had gotten the girls to bed (teeth brushed, prayers said) and were watching a movie. They rock!
11:00 p.m. - Blog. Then off to bed.
(Next time, I think I'll just do A Day in the Life . . . This is getting tedious.)
12:00 a.m. - Sleep
1:00 a.m. - Sleep
2:00 a.m. - Adana up again (she doesn't usually get up in the middle of the night), this time on Nathan's side. He gets to take her potty and tuck her in.
3:00 a.m. - Sleep
4:00 a.m. - Sleep
5:00 a.m. - Sleep
6:00 a.m. - Sleep. I hear Emma get up at 6:30 and go downstairs to watch cartoons. It is impossible for her to sleep in. I have to get up to let the #^%! cat out.
7:00 a.m. - Adana up. I make sure the boys are getting up and ready.
8:00 a.m. - I take a car full of boys to Poulsbo for the last week of their Boy Scout Merit Badge Clinic.
9:00 a.m. - Meet up with Jenny for a run. We run 4 miles along the southwest beach. It is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. The sun is shining on the still water, the mountains rise above us with their sparkling white peaks. A perfect morning run.
10:00 a.m. - I make myself breakfast (I'm back to my usual spinach omelet). Nathan leaves for the lake house. We have renters coming next weekend, so he needs to finish some work on it. Emma & Adana head out into the neighborhood to find friends to play with. Adana brings Sophie (another little 4-year old) back to play.
11:00 a.m. - Catch up on email/news/blog reading. Shower.
12:00 p.m. - Adana & Sophie go back to her house for a picnic. I start cleaning. Yes, Friday is supposed to be "cleaning day," but it is impossible to keep a house clean with this many people going in and out. I also find a plastic tote full of old baby clothes, and I start to sort through them. Sadly, they are nearly all moth-eaten and yellowed.
1:00 p.m. - The boys get home from Merit Badge Clinic (eating the last bites of DQ Blizzards. The carpool mom who picked them up is way nicer than their own mom). Adana & Sophie come back to our house, this time to play school with Emma in the garage. That lasts all of 10 minutes, until Emma annoys Adana to tears by being a "mean teacher." I think Emma has sat in on too many of my homeschool lessons.
2:00 p.m. - My friend, Mariann, and her son, Izaac, stop by to play. Jared's friend, Harrison, also comes over. It is a GORGEOUS sunny day in the mid-50's. The kids play outside while we sit in my sunny kitchen and chat. The only problem is that we are interrupted every few minute by some kid or another needing to tell us/ask us something. Sigh. We give up on our "adult alone" time and head outside.
3:00 p.m. - Harrison's mom comes to pick him up, so we visit with her for awhile. One of life's greatest pleasures has to be visiting with friends on a warm, sunny afternoon while the kids run around the neighborhood playing and laughing. We walk over to the park across the street and the kids play there for awhile.
4:00 p.m. - Come back from the park. Call in all my kids from the neighborhood. Get them started on dinner.
5:00 p.m. - I pick up Outi & Mariann and we head to Silverdale. Outi runs a couple errands, then we try to find a place to eat dinner. Apparently there is a Tolo this evening, so all the restaurants are packed with scantily-clad teenage girls and their oogling zit-faced dates. I just keep muttering, "If my daughter ever dresses like that . . ."
6:00 p.m. - We end up eating dinner at the mall Food Court. Pathetic, but by that time we were both starving and running late.
7:00 p.m. - Go to the Stake center for the adult session of Stake Conference. We sit next to some friends who were there with their 7-month old twins - a boy & a girl. So we get to pass them around. So freakin' cute! And so nice to be able to hand them back when they get fussy.
8:00 p.m. - Still in Stake Conference. Thank goodness for an iPhone with a fully charged battery and lots of games. :-)
9:00 p.m. - Stop by Central Market (my favorite local grocery store) on our way home. Pick up some Greek yogurt and turkey bacon for dinner tomorrow evening. When Nathan's not around, we like to eat breakfast for dinner because he doesn't like it.
10:00 p.m. - Home to a quiet house. The boys had gotten the girls to bed (teeth brushed, prayers said) and were watching a movie. They rock!
11:00 p.m. - Blog. Then off to bed.
4 comments:
It was beautiful today! I am so glad you got to enjoy it with friends. The run sounds awesome. I hope you get to sleep tonight:)
Wait a second! You played games on your iphone during Stake Conference?
What?! I hope that's a joke. You're my good example!
cleompk
1) What is a stake conference?
2) How did you train those boys to be such great babysitters???
3) It might be tedious, but I am LOVING the hour-by-hour play by play!
Um, actually it's not tedious at all. I have been LOVING this all week. Every since I had kids, I've been fascinated by/obsessed with how other moms spend their time. I never really know exactly what to do with myself--I feel busy but I don't feel like I do anything but if I'm not doing anything how come I feel like I don't have time for anything? So I find a sense of comfort in knowing what other moms do day by day, hour by hour.
Thanks for your posts!
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