Do you know that feeling when you get to the end of a long day and you are completely exhausted and you look around your disastrous house and think . . . what exactly did I do today? Yesterday was one of those days for me.
Well, one of my friends tagged me to list everything I did in a day, and I'm going to try it, maybe it will make me feel like I accomplished something despite the tornado that is my house right now.
- Woke up once in the night with Jeffrey and once with Emma
- Alarm went off at 6:00 am but took me 15 minutes to drag my ginormous self out of bed for a shower
- Jeffrey was up and crying when I got out of the shower, so got to hold/play with him while I tried to at least comb my hair and brush my teeth (make-up will have to wait till later)
- Woke the girls up and got their clothes out so they could get dressed for the day
- Put Jeffrey in his high chair with a waffle and some cut up bananas
- Fed the dog, cat, and rabbit
- Went back to tell the girls they'd better be getting dressed or else . . .
- Made Lindsay's lunch and snack for school (PBJ, crackers, gogurt, and a candy with trail mix for snack)
- Got Nathan up and made him peaches oatmeal
- Dragged the girls out of their room and gave them cereal and oatmeal
- Cleaned Jeffrey up and got him dressed
- Cleaned Nathan up and got him dressed (all the while instructing the girls on what they had forgotten or still needed to do - comb your hair, brush your teeth, pack up your backpack etc.)
- Put Emma's hair into pigtails with cute little purple bows (Lindsay opted for a headband)
- Realized as we were walking out the door that I hadn't eaten anything so grabbed an apple and a water bottle
- Buckled Nathan and Jeffrey into carseats and drove out of the driveway at 7:23 (only 3 min. late, not too bad)
- Drove 15 minutes across town and dropped Lindsay off and we were actually a little early for school! Yeah! (Ate apple, drank water)
- Drove back across town to drop Emma off at preschool. Sat in preschool for 15 minutes to read Emma and Nathan a story
- Buckled Nathan and Jeffrey back in the car and drove home
- Turned on a movie for Nathan while I made Jeffrey a bottle and put him down for a morning nap
- Ate a bowl of cereal and read the paper for 10 minutes
- Cleaned like crazy for the next half hour so my house wouldn't be so embarassingly dirty when the sitter arrived.
- Babysitter came at 9:15 to watch Nathan and Jeffrey while I went to a doctor's appt.
- Went to doctor were I had to be weighed (YUCK . . . I'm already 44 lbs up and still gaining) and have a pelvic exam (BLUCK). I am 50% effaced and 1 centimeter dialated though . . . yeah me.
- Drove back home where Jeffrey had woken up early from his nap because sitter decided to play hungry hippo with Nate (the noisiest game we own).
- Fed Jeffrey and gave Nathan a snack (forgot to eat anything myself though)
- Packed extra diaper bag and bundled Jeff and Nate back up and buckled back in the car to drop Jeffrey off for his 11:00 visit with Mom.
- Took Nathan and made a mad run to JoAnn's (trying to find a craft to do with Emma's preschool on Friday). Didn't find anything.
- Rushed back across town to pick Emma up from Preschool, then went to Michael's where we found a cute little Valentine Foamie Craft! Yeah!
- Ran home, fed Nathan lunch. This time I remembered to eat too!
- Went back to pick Jeffrey up from visit, dropped off books/movies at Library, drove over to pick Lindsay up from school. (parked a couple blocks away and had to wake Jeffrey up and carry him because I forgot to bring a stroller, DANG!)
- Picked up Lindsay and all walked back to car buckled back in and drove home.
- Put Nathan down for a very late afternoon nap.
- Gave the girls and Jeffrey a snack.
- Unpacked Lindsay's backpack and sorted through the beginning of the week paperwork.
- Tried to put Jeffrey down for a nap, but he refused because he'd already had a 15 minute cat-nap on the way to pick up Lindsay.
- Spent the next hour helping Lindsay do homework and Emma write her name on the back of all of her Valentine's cards for preschool.
- Woke Nathan up and gave him a snack.
- Sent all the kids (except Jeffrey) outside to play while I got the potato soup on the stove and freezer rolls in the oven to thaw. Thank heavens for a little sun and warmer weather!
- Sat down on the kitchen floor and played with Jeffrey for a little while so he would stop emptying all the food out of the pantry.
- Fed the animals and picked up the mail.
- Finished up the soup, started baking the rolls, and set the table.
- Tied a zillion little tiny bows out of red ribbon for the preschool craft on Friday, and made my example craft so they could see what it should look like.
- Jerry came home and we all had potato soup and rolls for dinner.
- Clipped and painted the girls (and Nathan's) fingernails . . . they'd been begging for a week or more and I kept putting them off.
- SAT DOWN ON THE COUCH . . . YEAH!! And read stories to the kids.
- Helped kids to get into jammies, brush teeth, read scriptures, say prayers, etc.
- Put Jeffrey to bed while Jerry put Nathan and Emma to bed.
- Left for my 7:30 primary presidency meeting while Jerry helped Lindsay with her reading homework.
- Got home from my meeting about 9:00 and started getting ready for bed (thankfully my wonderful husband had put Lindsay to bed and done the dishes while I was gone!)
- In bed by ten and ASLEEP IN SECONDS!
A couple of notes: I changed four poopy diapers and numerous wet ones throughout the day also, and at some point in the morning I did put on mascara and put my hair into a ponytail, but that's as far as I got with my personal beautification. Also, I don't always drive around that much, but yesterday was Jeff's once a week visit with mom, and my doctor's appt., and I also had this silly Valentine's craft I had to figure out so I can take my turn to volunteer in Emma's class on Friday. Oooh, and I almost forgot, but I probably went to the bathroom 20 or 30 times throughout the day too, because this baby is really low and is evidently using my bladder as a full body pillow as well as a punching bag!
Ah, life is busy and good!
