Monday Morning
6:00 Alarm goes off for the first time. Hit snooze!
6:09 Alarm goes off for the second time. Hit snooze!
6:18 Alarm goes off for the third time. Reach over and grab cell phone so the bright light will help me wake up. Play on facebook for a few minutes and see if it is my turn to play words with friends or draw something.
6:27 Alarm goes off for the forth time. Roll out of bed to go wake up Lynley. Stumble in the dark so I don't wake up Jason yet and walk in another dark room as quietly as I can so I don't wake up Kendall.
6:30 Fix Lynley breakfast, take my vitamins, and chug my first glass of water.
While Lynley eats breakfast I pick out her clothes, pack her lunch, pack her a snack, make sure all of her school stuff is in her bag, and turn on the straighter so it can be heating up to fix her hair later. In the meantime Jason wakes up and gets in the shower and Kendall wakes up and wants to snuggle. No time for snuggling right now because I have to make sure Lynley stays on time.
6:45 Tell Lynley to stop playing and eat so she is not late.
7:00 Tell Lynley breakfast time is up, go brush your teeth.
7:15 Ask Lynley why it is taking to long to brush her teeth?!?!?!
7:20 She is finally done brushing teeth! Tell Jason goodbye. Get Lynley dressed and fix her hair.
7:30 Wake Dylan up and get all 3 kids in the cold car to take Lynley to school.
7:40 Sit in the car in the driveway for a few minutes so I can drag out going in the house and getting things going for as long as I can!
7:45 Kendall tells me she is tired of sitting in the car and she is hungry. Go inside and sit Dylan down, he starts to scream. Fix breakfast, Dylan still screaming...wait now I smell something and it does not smell like food, GWOSS!!! Stop breakfast to change my smelly man. Sit him back down, he proceeds to start screaming again. Hurry with a milk cup so maybe I can fix a breakfast that would take a normal person 5 minutes and I have been trying to get it done for 20 minutes. Feed my children that act like they are starving.
9:00 Clean up breakfast stuff and try to keep Dylan out of the cat food...crap he found a piece that I missed!
9:30 Sit in the floor and play, sing, read books with the kiddos with SPROUT on the tv. Drink my 2nd glass of water.
10:00 "Mommy I am hungry. Can I have a snack?" What I want to say "Gesh, if you would have finished your breakfast that took me forever to cook we would not be having this conversation." My real response "You can either finish your breakfast or you have to wait until lunch."
10:30 Get Dylan cleaned up, change his diaper, change his clothes, give him paci and blanket, lay him down for a nap. I jump in the shower because this is the ONLY time I have during the day to shower. Turn Kbear on some cartoons and make sure all of the doors are locked.
11:00 After being interrupted a ton of times because Kendall has to go potty and because she wants to get in with me (I tell her no of course) I am finally done. Get out, get dressed, dry my hair, brush my teeth, do my make-up. Man I feel so much better!
11:30 Start figuring out what in the world are we going to do for lunch. Decide to put that off for a bit and sit on the couch and play on facebook, atlantamommas, check on friends blogs, see if it is my go on any games.
12:00 Gesh, have I really wasted 30 minutes on the computer and now it is lunch time and I have no idea what I am going to fix??? Finally decide on a lean cuisine for me, ham and cheese sandwich and some yogurt for Kendall and same for Dylan when he wakes up. Play on the computer some more while I eat my lunch that is not going to fill me up, but I won't eat anything else because that had so many calories and so much sodium...one day I will learn to fix something different.
12:30 Another 30 minutes wasted on the computer! Close the computer so I won't be tempted by it any more!!! Get a load of laundry going, unload the dishwasher, reload it. Think about how in the world we can go through so much laundry, dishes, and trash in one day...didn't I just do all of this yesterday??? Crap I have only had 2 glasses of water and I have to get my 8 in...chug my 3rd glass of water.
1:00 Go check on Dylan...he is standing in his jumping in his bed and gives me the biggest and cutest smile when I walk in! Get him up, change his diaper, and feed him lunch.
2:00 Time to go get Lynley. Make sure both kids have a drink cup and I have a glass of water, both have their blankets, Dylan has his paci, and Kbear has a toy or a book. Finally make it out the door at 2:15.
2:25 Arrive at car line and have a few minutes to just chill. Kbear usually falls asleep in the car and Dylan talks to himself.
2:35 Car line finally starts moving! Pick up Lynley and we talk about her day.
2:45 Arrive home. Check mail, bill, junk, bill, junk, bill...something I don't recognize...oh wait it is just more junk. We stay outside and play for a bit because it is to pretty to sit inside a messy home!
3:30 Girls come in for a snack, I sit Dylan down to play and I realize I have not even thought about dinner. Start looking through cabinets, fridge and freezer, find something that sounds good and that everyone will eat. Start prepping for it.
4:00 "Lynley, turn off the tv. It is homework time." This is not a chore, she does not mind homework! While she does homework I cook and Kendall is usually helping one of us while Dylan is figuring out what he can get in.
5:15 Head out for Soccer on Mondays. No time to eat before hand! Soccer from 5:45 until 6:45. Come home, get kids in pjs, and eat as a family.
7:15 Time to read!
8:00 Lights out!
8:15 BE QUIET AND GO TO SLEEP!!!
8:30 All is quiet in the Towns house and now time to clean up after dinner. Oh wait, I have a load of laundry in the washer...swap it over to the dryer. Crap, I did not have time to sweep or vacuum! Sweep the kitchen, pick up toys from the living room, vacuum the rug. "Oh, Jason that trash really stinks, please take it out!."
9:30 I am BEAT!!! Lets go to bed!
6:00 It starts all over again, but this time Lynley has to have a bath so no phone time and no snooze time!
I love my life!! It is busy, but full of smiles, laughter, hugs, kisses, tears, prayers, gray hairs, friends, family, books, toys, and just pure joyfulness.
I thank God everyday for giving me such a wonderful husband. Someone who is so understanding when I am in pjs some days when he comes home because my day was so hectic. Someone who is so understanding when the same bowl he ate breakfast out of is still sitting on the table because my babies asked me to take them for a walk or read them an extra book. Someone who is willing to cook dinner on days that I did not even have a second to myself because a kid did not feel good. Someone who loves me with or without make-up on. Someone who never judges me and I never have to make excuses to because he totally understands.
(By the way, this blog took me 3 hours to type up. I don't get to just sit in front of the computer and blog all day whenever I want. I have to do a few minutes here and a few minutes there.)
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