Today, was a working day all around. I was trying to recall what we did and most of it can be summed up with "chores," but here is a bit longer look at the day:
6:42 - B arrives to ask to play Wii
7:00 - Brent gets up and begins his prep for the day. I am still exhausted from last night so I stay in bed a bit longer
7:30 - I get up and ready while saying good-bye to Brent. I begin looking through my work email, making breakfast (grits with maple syrup & figs), and starting the laundry.
8:00 - M wakes up a bit late. She has her cereal while she and B watch Wonder Pets and I try to think up some lunch ideas. I manage to undercook boiled eggs (pathetic) and take a shower (which I should have done earlier, but slow processing things this morning). I check email some more and then encourage the kids to get dressed for school.
9:00 - We have just a little bit of time for playing this morning. We're mostly gathering up things for school and stay and play while trying to get everyone out the door.
9:30 - Drop off-- this is where the first pictures start above. Most of them are at the kids' school or in transit to and from. Then it is back home to a very busy work day.
9:40-3:00 - Work - meetings at 10 - Resource Staff; Board Prep - 12:30; COI - 2. I was pretty much in meetings all day and had up to 29 documents open at once while I led the 12:30 meeting.... yeah, we didn't quite get through all of those.
Wednesdays, Brent teaches Genetics from 9:50-10:45. He then has lunch around 11:30 followed by all-school assembly, which he is responsible for selecting a speaker for each week as part of his admin duties.
The kids also have chapel on Wednesday so their school routine is slightly different. B goes to chapel with the 3, 4 and 5 year olds. M's class has the priest come to their room and read or tell stories with them. Both kids seem to be working on spring songs as well as having learned some Easter/resurrection songs (I discovered this on the drive to the store, noted below).
3:00 - With just a few minutes before pick up from Stay and Play I made a meal plan and finished up the Grocery list. Stay and Play, for the curious, is an option at MDO where the kids can stay an extra 45 minutes for $5 each. For extremely unclear reasons they both adore it. Our deal is that they can stay and play once a week and it worked out very nicely today as my work day ran late anyway.
3:15-5pm -- I kid you not, we spent this entire time going to the store, buying groceries, and coming home. Our recent grocery buying situation has become one absolutely massive trip per month to Crest. Then about once a week we have a mini trip somewhere to buy milk (3 gallons per week), bread, fruit & vegetables. The big trip is just that, very very big. Today was a new record total expenditure and I was wondering if I was going to be able to push the cart with my nearly 90 pounds of kids and all the groceries. It was nuts. Oh, and see the temperature reading in the collage above? It was 94 degrees today when we finished grocery shopping. Nice, right?
5:15-6:15 - The kids helped me put away all the groceries and switch out the laundry. B was definitely the champion helper today and did an excellent job of trying to teach M about putting away groceries properly. M, meanwhile, spent some time in time out, but also tried to put away groceries by just putting the entire sack inside the lip of the fridge and closing the door---nice try, lady M. She was, however, a big help with starting dinner, which we did while putting away groceries. As is becoming our tradition, we had roasted pork loin post-shopping as it is quick, easy and well-loved (and reminds me of my Grandpa). We also roasted asparagus and tomatoes and cut up some of the kiwi left over from last week's fruit round up. To my extreme delight we discovered at dinner that absolutely loves roasted asparagus. Hooray!
During all this, Brent was at volleyball practice for the OSSM faculty/student volleyball game next week. We also called Grammy and Granddaddy during dinner to set up babysitting for Friday while we go to a dinner at OU.
6:15-8:15 - I may have mentioned we're having a nursery prep party here on Sunday and we decided it was time to minimally prepare for that. So, Brent brought lots of things down from the attic, with assistance from the kids, of course. Then they took several tubs of clothes back up to wait for the baby to be a bit bigger. I then sorted all the clothes from Jamie and put all the smallish clothes from Jamie and Audra in the changing table.... this kid has TONS of clothes. I had the luxury of being picky and not adding all the fleece ones or really anything marked newborn as our babies are rarely small enough for newborn clothes. Brent took the toddler rail off the crib, and helped with the shuffling of bins all over the place as well as boxing up some of the kids' too small clothes while I sorted. Then, it was time for a belated night time ritual and to bed for the kids (who had initially been helping before wandering off to watch Pinky Dinky Do while we finished up).
8:15-9:15 - Brent washed off all of the crib, raised the mattress platform, reattached the front, and added back clean bedding. I finished the dishes and folded two loads of laundry before giving up and heading to the office to relax.
9:15 - 11 - Picture processing, blogging, checking work email that I managed to let go for a few hours, watching our "programs" online and trying to go to sleep early. I don't think I've mentioned this yet, but the baby is most active during the evening. Right around 10:30ish he starts to be very boisterous and this continues past the time I usually go to sleep. I do not consider this an optimistic sign for his sleeping habits when he arrives. (I am posting this before 11, but dream that we're both happily in bed by then.)
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