School Day!

Ah, Monday. It was cloudy and drizzling all day. The temp was between 66 and 69. Not too bad. A day in the life for the kids was as follows:

• Breakfast
• visit with dad (he got home from work around 10am)
• cleanup
• school (for Jamie)
• playtime (for Brandon)
• Brandon went with dad on motorcycle to grocery store
• Jamie helped clear school work bins (probably had papers in there from last year)
• late lunch
• more time with dad (they went to the grocery store and movie store)

All the while we were listening to songs on You Tube. Brandon loves High School Musical so we looked up songs from the movie.

A day in the life for me is as follows:

• wake up and make bed
• get dressed and put some clothes up from the day before
• wake daughter (son is already awake and boiling water for Rahmen Noodles)
• clean sofa entire sofa with Resolve (cleaning up Brandons cheese flavored noodles)
• daughter finally is up and in bathroom
• unstop the overflowing toilet in the main hall (which dumped out what seemed like an inch of water)
• keep son entertained by giving him a lesson in plumbing while I do the work
• throw load of towels into the washer (the ones that got soaked in the great flood)
• clean restroom now that we had a nasty over flow (might as well, I'm already there)
• make breakfast
• get things ready for school (clear off dining table and desks)
• still making breakfast
• turn on computer to put on upbeat music to help ME start the day on a positive
• Oh forgot coffee so I beg hubby (who just walked in the door from having worked nights) to make us some coffee
• serve breakfast, feed animals, grab my plate to sit at the computer to IM my brother at work and look for more music on You Tube
• visit with hubby
• get daughter out of her room again to school
• entertain son
• send son outside with dad
• took a quick ride with hubby on his motorcycle around the block (trying to squeeze in time for him too)
• school daughter
• dear hubby folds laundry that is waiting for me on the sofa
• still IM'ing
• play with my blog
• send hubby and son on errand to grocery store
• still schooling daughter
• checking on laundry/sending son to get clothes out of dryer
• (sigh) is it lunch time? throw corn dogs into oven
• do breakfast dishes
• heat myself up some leftovers so I don't pass out from low blood sugar
• give up on schooling son (sigh)
• sit at computer again
• pick up whatever is on the floor
• try to clear dining table a little
• start dinner (boiling chicken for casserole)
• no more school, but still listening to You Tube
• finish dinner and sit down for the day (on the sofa and ready for a movie)

All this takes place by 5:30pm. Now today my daughter made the statement that I have been at the computer all day. Ugh! Hahahaha!

I still have to wash dinner dishes, but I was waiting for everyone to finish up their showers. Dad took and short nap and joined me for the movie. It was Nanny Diaries. Then he put them both to bed. The little one gets and story and says prayer with daddy. The older one just gets tucked in and prayer with daddy.

Of course this is by no means typical. Anything can and will happen. Wake up time can have an effect on our day as well. This is just what took place today.