A Day in My Life

I got this idea from my sister-in-law, Jenny. Quite often Jenny will take a camera around with her documenting her day. I thought that I would give it a try. I didn't get very far. I will say, "Kudos" to Jenny for her diligence in giving so many of her readers a great view into one of her days. I, on the other hand, can only give you about a third of my day! I got a bit too distracted and completely forgot most of the day. Here goes:

Breakfast began at 8am. I served up scrambled eggs, cinnamon toast, bananas and milk. I will say not every breakfast is quite this big of an affair, but at least once or twice a week, the girls are given a special big breakfast. They gobbled their food up quickly!

Even little Ruby anxiously awaits her rice cereal now. Breakfast prep certainly takes longer than it used to. But Ruby somehow understands her wait and smiles while Mommy prepares the meal.

Most mornings over the past 4 weeks have been rushing around to do early morning chores before heading out the door for swim lessons. The girls are on their last week of lessons and I think they are doing a great job keeping up! They have made new friends and love their teachers. They will be sad when the lessons are over. But each day are eager to share what they worked on.

Before lessons they spend 15-20 minutes working on their summer lessons. They are working through a workbook to review and prepare them for the upcoming school year. Annie even has one, shh, we don't tell her it is just a Dora coloring book. Mommy has to grade hers just like she does the girls! After each 2 week review the girls choose a goal to work towards. Their first session included an ice cream cone. This session they are working towards a smoothie from Starbucks. They just have 3 days left of this session and they are eager to get their smoothies!

As stated before we have morning chores before we can head out the door. Generally it has been only me that has the chores but this summer we've spread the love! The girls have their own chore charts and are very willing to help me out! They certainly are old enough to help out, even Annie can do a few. Here is my typical list for the week. I have found a dry-erase board helps me throughout the week keep everything in order.

Speaking of chores: Mondays are laundry days. Generally speaking I have anywhere from 6-10 loads of laundry to wash. Those 10 load Mondays usually stretch out to Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday laundry days. But I am happy to report I finished all 6 loads yesterday, I was up till 11:30pm folding and putting clothes away but boy am I proud of myself for getting it all done!

In the midst of all those chores, we made a date with Duane to have lunch. We picked him up after swim lessons and ate at Planet Sub. After lunch with daddy and spotting some turtles in the pond next to the sub shop, we headed off to Target to purchase a few items. We made it home in time for nap time. All the girls fell fast asleep and I got to have some quiet time to myself. I just started a new study by Beth Moore on the fruits of the Spirit.

After a dinner of yummy ravioli, our favorite crunchy bread and a huge salad, I drove over to Lowes to pick up some blinds for the dining room. I spent the better part of an hour getting 5 blinds cut to fit our abnormal windows. After paying for the blinds and seeing that I had spent enough money for 2 weeks worth of groceries, the cashier pointed out that I was eligible for a $25 rebate. SCORE! We'll hold on to that rebate to use next time we're at Lowes, which will be very soon. In the midst of this weekend. We began a project we'd started some time ago, trim work. All of our trim in the house was painted a flat off-white, it looks like someone has smoked next to it. So in order to look better, we decided to paint all of it. Duane is painstakingly taking off all the hardware, boiling the paint off and spray painting it all black. It will look incredible when it is all done. He is definitely the one to pay attention to the details, me, not so much.

We took about an hour and a half to hang these 3 blinds. They make the room look so different, today we will hang the other 2 blinds and put up the black hardware. It is coming along, finally!

Exhausted I fall into bed at midnight and read a bit to make my mind fall asleep! Waking at 7am the next day begins the day all over!