Day in the Life: June 21st

As close to sleeping as I get these days

8:00 Breakfast

9:00 Church--lake style

10:00 Getting some dinner in the crockpot so we won't have to scramble to cook when we get home

11:00 Never a bad day here

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Rose and chill

2:00 Why yes, I'd love to play catch with my teenager

3:00 Time to pack up

4:00 Headed home

5:00 And of course, straight to a show (after they helped unload the car)

6:00 Dinner's on! (Or, perhaps more accurately, dinner's done!)

7:00 Happy Birthday (and Happy Father's Day!)

8:00 Determined

9:00 Turns out I need to feed this crew for yet another week

10:00 Relaxing

Bed!

Day in the Life: May 21st

Happy First Day of Summer break!

7:00 And not a single one of them slept in

8:00 Filing away a few school papers

9:00 Wrapping up a few last PTO things at the school

10:00 Library stop

11:00 Hiking fun (for Mom at least--the boys love complaining about hikes but then always end up enjoy themselves)

12:00 Trying to figure out how to play a super involved version of Ticket to Ride

1:00 Lunch!

2:00 Groceries

3:00 Loooots of groceries

4:00 Quiet time

5:00 Time to trim those shaggy locks

6:00 Shorter than he wanted it, but it looks so good!

7:00 Cleaning up

8:00 Reading practice

9:00 Packing for the holiday weekend at the lake

10:00 More packing...

Not too shabby of a bedtime!

Day in the Life: April 21st

Good Morning Tuesday!

7:00 Breakfast time

8:00 Leading a Book Club for 2nd Graders is such a joy

9:00 Quick stop for errands on the way home

10:00 Can I just say that catching up on emails is waaaay better outside on a gorgeous spring day?

11:00 Also, I find my productivity is way better outside than in--moving on to PTO work!

12:00 Popping inside for a workout

1:00 But back outside for lunch

2:00 Not gonna lie, based on how the earlier part of the day was going, I have no idea why I'm not outside working on summer camp stuff for the boys, but apparently I decided to move inside

3:00 Although apparently not for long, because even though my three elementary schoolers are home I'm back outside cleaning up dead growth from last fall

4:00 Turns out dinner prep tends to go better when you are inside

5:00 As does eating dinner, especially when you have to do so early because you have to rush off to...

6:00 A band concert where 5th graders play together at the middle school they will be attending (along with current members of the band ensembles, which means if you look closely you can find two of my boys playing trumpet)

7:00 And the concert was followed by a "Welcome to Middle School" event led by the administrative staff at our middle school. And even though we already had a student it middle school (and even though I sat through the same presentation with our current middle schooler), it was definitely good for Garrett to sit through the presentation ahead of his transition to middle school

8:00 Can someone please tell this child that April is way too early in the baseball season to start tracking records and calculating playoff chances? Especially when you are a Twins fan?

9:00 Look. I finally pulled the trigger on buying these lights and then made my husband hang them. And now I'm making him enjoy them with me. Even if we are both working. 

10:00 I've moved on from working, but he hasn't. That sounds like a him problem

Off to bed we go!