Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Revisions

When I thought about being a stay at home mom, it kind of looked like this on paper:
  • 6:30 - wake up and feed the kids breakfast. 
  • 7:00 - get all children dressed, teeth brushed, hair fixed. 
  • 7:30 - look at books or play calmly. 
  • 8:00 - send Connor to school with Ben. 
  • 8:15 - go to YMCA daily!
  • 9:15 - put Elinor down for morning nap. 
  • 9:30 - teach Sophia everything she needs to know in the entire world. 
  • 10:15 - play with Sophia
  • 10:30 - let Sophia play quietly while I do some housework
  • 11:00 - get Elinor up from her nap
  • 11:30 - put on show for girls to watch while I make lunch. 
  • 12:00 - Lunch with Dad
  • 12:30 - quiet play time before nap. 
  • 1:00 - Nap time
  • 1:00 - 3:00 - create amazing craft projects, clean entire house, in general - just be amazing. 
  • 3:00 - Wake girls up from their naps. 
  • 3:30 - Connor comes home from school and gets to watch two television programs.
  • 4:30 - Kids play quietly while I begin dinner preparations. 
  • 5:00 - Dad is home!
  • 5:30 - Time for dinner. 
  • 6:00 - Dinner clean up
  • 6:15 - Baths
  • 6:45 - Bedtime stories and devotions
  • 7:00 - Bed time for the girls.
  • 7:15 - 8:30 - various quiet activities with Connor.
In real life it looks more like this:
  • 6:00 - wake up 
  • 6:30 - breakfast
  • 7:00 - Run Sophia to the bathroom
  • 7:30 - continue to try to get everyone dressed and wonder if I have enough time for shower
  • 7:45 - Run Sophia to the bathroom
  • 8:00 - send Connor to school with Ben and hope that he actually did brush his teeth.
  • 8:15 - Sit on the couch, exhausted, and think about going to the YMCA
  • 8:30 - Run Sophia to the bathroom
  • 9:00 - Convince myself that I will go to the YMCA tomorrow and put  Elinor down for a nap. 
  • 9:30 - Play Barbies or My Little Ponies with Sophia. Pretend that all of them are going to the mall. 
  • 9:45 - Run Sophia to the bathroom
  • 10:00 - put on an educational TV show to teach Sophia all the stuff I was supposed to while I check facebook
  • 10:30 - Do some housework - mostly the stuff that Ben will notice so he will think I am working harder than I am. 
  • 10:45 - Run Sophia to the bathroom and go get the crying baby out of bed.
  • 11:00 - put on show for girls to watch while I change diapers, and think about what would be the easiest and healthiest..ish thing I could make for lunch. 
  • 12:00 - Lunch with Dad
  • 12:30 - Run Sophia to the bathroom. Clean up from lunch. 
  • 1:00 - Nap time
  • 1:00 - 3:00 - play on the computer, look at amazing craft things other people made, take a nap.
  • 3:00 - Wake girls up from their naps. 
  • 3:05 - Run Sophia to the bathroom.
  • 3:15 - Clean up a Sophia accident.
  • 3:30 - Connor comes home from school and gets to watch two television programs.
  • 3:30 - bedtime - Connor and Sophia scream and fight with each other
  • 4:30 - Take Sophia to the bathroom.
  • 5:00 - Dad is home!
  • 5:30 - Time for dinner. 
  • 6:00 - Dinner clean up
  • 6:15 - Baths...maybe.
  • 6:45 - Bedtime stories and devotions
  • 7:00 - Bed time for the girls.
  • 7:15 - 8:30 - various quiet activities with Connor.
Is anyone else's life like this?

2 comments:

  1. I totally relate to 75% of that!!! Sounds alot like my day - minus the Ben and the "Y" parts. It gets better!!!

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  2. Mine totally is! A schedule is a joke to me now but still, I have one on the fridge...it just never get's followed!

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