My days can vary a lot...this is just a typical monday
5:30 am~ alarm goes off, I jump out of bed because I know if I sit for any more than 1 minute I will not be getting out of that bed. I pee and get my running "get up" on and get a sip of water before heading out the door for my run.
6:15-6:30 am~ I get home from my run..Aren't my shoes pretty?? They are only 2 weeks old. I hope I will wear them out like my last pair.
6:30-7:00 am~ I eat my breakfast in peace...kind of...most mornings I am telling the kids to go back to their rooms a few times. Lately I am obsessed with cliff bars and any kind of berry. Right now I have raspberries and blueberries. I also have my morning cup of coffee before I head into the shower.
7:00-8:15~ All In one hour and fifteen minutes I shower, get dressed, do my hair, get makeup on, feed kids bfast, make sure they are dressed, make Laila's lunch, do girls hair and kiss the hubby goodbye.
8:15-8:45~ head out of the house to drop Landon off at preschool which starts at 8:30, then we head to mt. view and drop Laila off. where she gets to play on the playground until her school's bell rings at 9.
8:45-9:15~ most mornings I have some sort of errand to run and yes I consider driving down town to Uracca to get a caramel mind freeze an errand. Today Lydia and I just had to stop and get gas and buy milk at fred meyer.
9:15~ We got home and I needed to take the chicken out of the fridge that was defrosting and start marinading it.
I also needed to have a snack already. Today I had an apple(my favorite are pink lady) and decided to join Lydia in having a glass of chocolate milk. I read recently in runner's world magazine that chocolate milk is the perfect post workout drink...something about it having the perfect balance of protein and carbs I think.
9:15-10:35~ Lydia and I get time just the two of us every mon, wed, fri from 8:30-11 and I like to let her pick what we are going to do together for part of the time. Today she wanted to watch Beauty and the Beast. We snuggled together for about half the movie and the other half of it I tackled a pile of laundry that was bigger than this picture.
10:35-11:15~ Lydia and I finished our movie and headed out of the house to pick up Landon from school. We typically get home about 11:15
11:30-12:30~ I start making lunch for us when we get home. Today I want to get rid of the 6 little dinosaur chicken nuggets so the gingers each get 3 and I make them a salad with sunflower seeds and carrots. I make myself a salad as well. I stopped eating ranch on my salads a long time ago and have found a new love; Vidalias sweet onion. It is heaven with just about anything I put with my romaine.
Landon doesn't normally wear pj's during lunch time...he pajama day at school today:)
12:30-2~ nap time/ quiet time/ leave mom alone time. Lydia and Landon both stopped taking naps a long time ago. However, I insist they go to their rooms and let me pretend they are sleeping. On occasion they do fall asleep and those are usually the times they are grumpy for the rest of the day...go figure.
2-3:15~ I let them play and do whatever they want. Landon played games on the computer and Lydia had me read her a few books and played with my hair. I cleaned the bathrooms which is on my schedule as the monday chore.
3:15-3:35~ Pick up Laila from school.
3:35-4:35~ I talk to Laila about her day and she shows me papers she brought home. I let the kids watch cartoons while I finish getting stuff ready for dinner. Today I made pesto pasta (which is AMAZING) to go with our chicken.
4:45~ Brad gets home from work and I have him start up the grill for our chicken. I sit at the table reading the newest runners world magazine, worship music playing in the background mixed with children whining about dinner; being ready and the fact that it isn't waffles.
5:15-6~ Dinner as a family
6:00-6:30~ I read a chapter of little women to Laila on my kindle while Landon and Lydia are getting jammies on and brushing their teeth and hanging out with dad.
6:30~Brad leaves for bible study and I sit and chit chat with the kiddos
7:00~ The kids and I pray together and I send them to bed. Bed time varies a lot depending on what we are up to that evening. They usually go to bed between 7 and 8 though.
7:00-8~ baking cookies( ahem..heating frozen cookies in the oven) for mops tomorrow. I also worked on this lovely blog post.
8:00-9:30 or 10:00~ I will finish up the cookies, clean up the kitchen and wait for Brad to get home.
