6:50am The day starts. Wake the older two kids, dress them, feed them. Yell at least a dozen times for them to hurry up, finish eating, brush their teeth. Issue multiple reminders about lunches and feeding the dog. Send Monster back to bed because he is in a mood. Neighbor Lady rings the bell and asks if I can get her daughter on the bus because she forgot about late start and is running late.
7:35am Send the older kids (and Neighbor Girl) off to school. Feed and dress the youngest child who has re-emerged with an adjusted attitude.
8:30am Drop Monster at preschool. Pick-up donations from church for Easter goodie-bags, clean out the Children's Worship Bags. Come home and work on the blog.
11:00am Time to get Monster. Where did the morning go? Come home and feed him lunch because he is now whining about his empty belly since he didn’t eat enough at breakfast and he “didn’t like” today’s snack at school. Print off 120 eggs for this coming Sunday's Easter craft at church.
11:30am The Great Winter to Spring Wardrobe Switch… for all three kids. And I made their beds…again.
3:00pm Start dinner.
3:30pm They’re home! Feed the kids then ask them to start their homework. Persuade DeeDee to try on a pair of FirstBorn’s old cleats that I found while switching out the closets even though they have “no girl colors” on them. They fit... as do Monster’s so now I only have to pick-up one new pair this season. Score!
4:45pm Get the little guy ready for his first ever T-ball practice and send him off with Husband. Threaten DeeDee and FirstBorn with no church tonight if they don’t settle down and finish their flippin’ homework. For real. That’s a legit threat around here… especially since tonight is “store night” and my kids love them some junk.
5:30pm Check homework, do spelling. Get the kids ready for church, not necessarily because they’ve been behaving, more because I’m ready for them to be gone.
6:00pm Drive the older two kids to meet Husband and Monster at the drugstore because it is between our house and the baseball fields and on the way to church. Run inside for cake mix and a birthday card for my brother (Thanks for the reminder, Mom... too bad the card's still gonna be late).
6:30pm Bake DeeDee’s birthday cake; hard boil the eggs for Monster’s preschool party and for whenever I find time for our family to color eggs. Write-out and address my brother’s card.
8:10pm Jump on Facebook. All at the same time: Neighbor instant messages me looking for a headcount for her kid’s party next weekend, then proceeds to hound me about why I can’t make it when the rest of my family can; Internet Friend, who I have been to busy to chat with, wants to catch up; Church Acquaintance calls looking for help at the school for Kindergarten Round-up and realizes mid-sentence that I will be attending with Monster and am not available, settles on a 3dozen cookie commitment from me before switching subjects to our new church (which his her old church) and her current church (which is our old church); Husband and the 3 kids burst through the door, home from church completely amped up.
8:30pm Issue multiple requests for the kids to put their stuff away and get ready for bed. Apparently, I have gone mute again and am just imaging that there are words coming out of my mouth. They obviously don’t hear me.
9:00pm They are not asleep, but they are in bed, and I am content to leave it at that… they’ll be sorry come morning. Wrap DeeDee’s birthday gift. Realize that I forgot to make her birthday pajamas which I have to do since I made FirstBorn a pair for his b-day last fall and now, of course, must do for all. Crap. Where did I put that retched fabric she picked out?
9:30pm Fill 20 plastic eggs with candy for Monster's class, fight with my stupid printer which won't print the cute labels I want to seal the eggs with. Continue to over-think, over-analyze, beat-to-death the summer vacation plan with Husband. Finally agree on an itinerary and where to stay. Book it immediately so I don't have to talk about it again for at least two more months.
10:30pm Schedule tomorrow’s insanity and give myself over to TV/I-don’t-want-to-think-about-one-more-thing-today time.
11:30pm Better go to bed because I’m not completely confident that I am going to survive tomorrow’s to-do list, but I’m pretty sure that a decent amount of sleep might help. Good Night!
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