Photo Every Hour: September 21st

6:30 Normally I screenshot my phone to start my "day in the life", but since these rugrats were up by 6:30 I figured I might as well include them in the picture

7:00 Garrett has been begging to gel his hair for school, so William wanted to follow suit, and then Garrett refused to cooperate for the picture. Go figure

8:00 I am really going to be sad when the days of these two going straight outside to play after dropping their brothers at school have to stop because it gets too cold. With them outside and the older two at school it makes for a rather enjoyable start to my morning

9:00 Of course, I really shouldn't complain too much about the weather eventually driving them inside--they're usually pretty good inside as well. Good enough that sometimes I can even sneak in a few chapters of a book!

10:00 That being said, taking breaks from the house definitely helps them play better when they are at the house, so this morning we headed off to an open gym to (quite literally) run some energy off

11:00 Still going strong at open gym--Connor had a blast given tractor rides to anyone who wanted one (and honestly, Matthew gets most of the credit for the idea to hook the wagon on to the tractor) and Matthew is living his best life in the car!

12:00 Fingernail cutting time, which has also become a high coveted screen time opportunity. Whatever keeps them sitting still works for me

1:00 Every day during nap time I get to play at least one round of Chutes and Ladders with this cutie!

2:00 William wanted to play violin in the orchestra this year, and he has been super excited to start, so since his first lesson at school is on Friday I decided to pull the instrument out a few days early to he could give himself a basic familiarity with it and the lesson book (mind you, he was absolutely not allowed to attempt playing it; neither Darrell nor myself know anything about string instruments, so we have made it very clear that he is to go at the pace of his instructor and closely follow her directions because if he tries to get too far ahead and gets stuck--or worse, wrecks something--Darrell and I will be no help in getting him through the problem)

3:00 Snack time!

4:00 Attempting to be productive while the boys are otherwise occupied (and currently not trying to kill each other or anything)

5:00 I take my sous chef role of "make sure the chef has a beer" very seriously

6:00 Taking care of a few things for my baking group in the church kitchen before chimes rehearsal starts

7:00 On to choir practice!

8:00 Man, I am so not ready for it to be this dark when I am leaving church after music practice

9:00 Making stellar progress (not) on Connor's five year post since I figured I should get that done before posting my September 21st post

10:00 I decided to tackle a fitness challenge for September to keep myself motivated to work out and it (mostly) worked. I didn't necessarily get the days done in order, but I got through them all!

I seriously need to figure out a legitimate way to get myself to go to bed earlier. I am soooo terrible at actually following through with getting myself to bed earlier despite how tired I typically feel in the morning when my alarm rudely wakes me up