A Day In The Life Of....

Me. 

Sometimes I think back to before 3 kids and wonder....What did I do all day?

Although, I do recall sitting in the back yard in a lawn chair, 9 months pregnant with Jack, sipping ice cold Diet Caffeine Free Mountain Dew and reading pregnancy magazines, in between naps.----Oh to go back to that time, even if just for a day.

Funny thing is, that 6 years from now I will probably be dreaming of going back to this current stage in my life.

 """Man, remember when I had 3 toddlers, a job, cancer, and was Primary President...those were the days.""""  

HA! Doubt it, but we'll see.

7AM:

• Up and at 'em
•  Check Email, check Zulilly & Pick Your Plum, check Facebook to make sure nothing fabulous happened overnight, take Thyroid Pill, start getting ready for the day.

7:30AM:

• Good morning Jack, Brooke & Ivy. Start making breakfast, get vitamins and juice out. 

8AM:

• Get all the kids dressed and hair done.  Finish getting myself dressed. 

8:45:  

• Out the door to run errands.  Monday is always Walmart Day. (some days we don't go anywhere in the morning and Ivy takes a morning nap and I get something accomplished)
• Listen to Ivy scream in the car, and at the stores for the next 2 hours.

11AM:  

• Return home.  Get lunch ready for the kids.  Wake up Ivy if she fell asleep on the way home. Get Jack ready for School.

11:30: 

• Back in the car to take Jack to school. MWF I drive Kindergarten carpool. 
• Thursdays Brooke has dance from 12-1pm. 

1PM: NAPTIME!!!!

• Oh blessed 1-2 hours that I can work.  I usually clean up lunch, list fabric on the website, take pictures of new collections, work on Primary stuff, and occasionally waste time on Pinterest. Sometimes I even have time to sew!  Brooke's naps are not as awesome as they used to be. She takes a nap about every other day. 

3PM:

• The girls are usually up by now and we watch out the window for Jack to get off the bus.
• Jack is home around 3:20.

3:30:

• Mommy Time.  Every day for 1 hour I devote my time to the kids.  Something fun.  Sometimes a project, a game, a walk, a scavenger hunt, or baking something.  Thank you Pinterest, Mommy Time could not exist without you. 

4:30:

• Dinner Prep. This is the time of day that I usually lose it.  No patience, no tolerance for noise and messes, and usually a lot of yelling.  I am not proud of it...but it happens.  I am trying really really hard to smile from 4:30-5:30 every day. It's hard though. Ivy is whiny and they kids are usually really wound up. Dinner prep is my least favorite time of day. 

5:30:

• Dinner time.  I'm actually shocked that I weigh anything, I NEVER have time to eat. 

6:30:

• If we are lucky, Vince is home about this time.  Most nights it is around 7 he gets home.  He usually relieves me of the kids so I can do dishes and clean the kitchen without a little ankle biter trying to climb in the dishwasher and get the knives out. 

7:30:

• Get the kids ready for bed. Ivy's bedtime right now is about 7:30. The kids go to be at 8pm. Brooke usually comes out of her bed 10x before she actually goes to sleep.  So frustrating right now!

8PM:

• Fabric cutting in the basement.  Vince and I cut all the fabric orders from the day. Sometimes it only takes 10 minutes, sometimes it takes an hour or more. Sunday nights it is ALWAYS about an hour of cutting.  Then I stay in the basement and package up all the orders from the night and create shipping labels for them.  This ususally takes another hour. 

9PM:

• Most nights I try to work out at this time.  Sometimes I don't finish fabric work until 9:30 and just forget exercising. I feel bad abandoning Vince for the night and working out, but I don't think he minds his free time. 

9:45:

• I usually shower, take the rest of my pills, and answer emails.  Sometimes I stay up and work on Primary stuff. 

And then I go to sleep, and it starts again.