Day In The Life -- Friday

EDITED TO ADD: Hello to those of you visiting from Kelly's Korner in March 2013. I first read about this idea on Kelly's blog about a year and a half ago. I did my first "Day in the Life" series -- with a four month old and a 2 1/2 year old here. (You can click on the following posts to read about the rest of my week, if you're interested.) And this post was the kick-off post to my "Day in the Life" this past November with a 1 year old and a three year old. And yes, both times I blogged every single thing I did for an entire week. It was intense! My plan is to blog an entire week in my life every November as my kids continue to grow, because I just really enjoy seeing how I spent my days. Thanks for stopping by.

Yes, we're going to try this again. I am feeling positive about this coming week and I haven't had good ideas to blog about lately (therefore the lack of posts) so hopefully this will help get me on the right track. As I've said before, this is mostly for me to be able to look back and see what my day-to-day life was like at this point. Hopefully you won't find it too boring and if you do, it'll be done in a week :) And there are lots of (somewhat boring!) pictures!

This morning I woke up at around 8 to Sam getting into bed with me. I dozed and he did whatever until I dragged myself out of bed at 9. Have I mentioned I've been tired lately?! Sam watched a Mighty Machines video while I got myself ready and Rachel woke up.

Then I served everyone breakfast. I had tea, a bagel and a yogurt. I feel like a short order cook at breakfast time as everybody eats different things and it's a little nuts getting it all ready. Sam ate three of his Hallowe'en m&m packages and said, "M is for Mommy, Sam, Oma and famous!" I laughed because "famous" is not a word I hear him using a lot!

By 9:45 I was cleaning up breakfast, changing Sam's diaper, and dealing with the vegetables from our last CSA pickup. They had been sitting in a Rubbermaid bin on our porch and needed attention as some of them were getting a bit moldy. Sam and Rachel played the "Hat Game" while I did that. The "Hat Game" is where they both put on hats and run around the house like crazy people. They made it up together and have a lot of fun playing it. And it allows me to get stuff done. Win-win!

By 10:40 I was finished with the vegetables, I got dressed and started to clean the bedrooms while Sam and Rachel watched another Mighty Machines video.

 

By 11:30 I was doing dishes and drinking my leftover cold tea from breakfast. It's always satisfying to see the counter go from looking like the picture on the left to the picture on the right!

By noon I was feeding everyone lunch. Sam had a peanut butter and jam sandwich, Rachel had leftover pasta and I had leftover squash soup. Then it was time to put the upstairs back together (I take everything off the floor to clean), sweep the hallway and stairs and get Sam dressed.

 

At 12:40 we left to take Sam to school. We drive because it's a little too far to walk. I helped Sam wash his hands and talked with some of the other moms. By 1:10 we were home and I attempted to put Rachel down for nap. For some reason she has started freaking out when we put her to bed; it's very frustrating. By 1:40 Rachel was asleep, the stairs and hallway were washed, and I was working on the kitchen and dining room, thus everything was piled up in the living room.

 

By 2:00 I was able to take some time at the computer -- responding to e-mails and reading blogs, while enjoying some Hallowe'en treats! At 2:40 I put the kitchen and dining room back together, and wrote a thank you card for someone at the preschool who handed down some clothes to Rachel. At 3:00 I woke up Rachel (I really dislike her shortened naps on preschool days) and went to pick Sam up from preschool. I drank my daily Coke while driving back and forth. We were home by 3:45 and I cleaned the bathroom while Sam and Rachel played with the recycling downstairs. By 4:15 the challah was baking for tonight, Sam was complaining and Rachel was having a time out in her exersaucer for playing with cords, although really she had too much fun for it to be a timeout! See?

At 4:35 I was making supper, the challah was finished, supper went in the oven, and the kids were playing (they do a lot of playing on their own!). Tonight's supper was Baked Lentils With Cheese and, after the initial preparation stage, mostly just needed to bake and have things added to it once in awhile!
  At 5:00 I was browsing Kelly's Korner SUYL desserts and pinning ones which look really good! Maybe if you're lucky I'll actually make one or two of them and you'll be here to eat them! Ha ha ha!!! At 5:45 Dave came home, Rachel and I were dancing in the kitchen, supper was still baking, Sam was playing and I set the table for our Shabbat dinner.
At 6:15 we sat down for supper, said the Shabbat blessings and ate. Rachel only ate challah and Sam ate some of the lentils under extreme duress.

At 6:50 arrived the hour half hour between supper and bedtime which is always a joy to get through! Dave played Angry Birds to entertain Sam and Rachel and Rachel kept trying to walk off the chair to give me a heart attack, although pictured is a rare moment where she was cuddling with Dave. sigh.

 

At 7:25 Dave cleaned the bathtub while Sam did puzzles downstairs, and Rachel and I read books (or not!) in her room.
   
Then Dave bathed Rachel while I helped Sam clean his room.

 

At 8:15 I put Rachel down for sleep while Dave bathed Sam then I got to blog, answer e-mails and eat a snack of apples and caramel sauce and drink tea while Dave continued to bathe Sam and put him to bed. It took a really long time for the pictures for this post to upload so now it is 9:30. I am going to drink some tea and go to bed, after reading for a bit, because I am tired and I want to get up tomorrow morning and exercise before we have to start the rest of our day! Good night.