Day in the Life: January 21st

Always nice to sleep in, although on a Sunday where we have to be at church at 8:15 (which is basically like every Sunday if I'm being honest) it's a little dicey to get this late of a start on our day

8:00 But look at us! On our way out the door on time!

9:00 My Sunday morning view (At least on the mornings I'm not in the choir loft)

10:00 My baking group also provided the treats for coffee hour this morning--just another busy Sunday morning for us!

11:00 Wrapped up my rehearsal with my youth chimes, now on to pulling some new music for my adult chimes group

12:00 Lunch time for my crew

1:00 Helping a gal from our church prep for the ACT (which--nerd alert--I genuinely love)

2:00 Still working hard at test prep

3:00 I swear I'm always doing laundry in these posts. Probably because it legitimately takes daily loads of laundry to keep up with this crew

4:00 Dropping the older two off at a friend's birthday party at an arcade. I'm sure they won't have any fun ;-)

5:00 And since the arcade is on the opposite side of town, I packed up some PTO stuff, headed to a coffee shop, and knocked a few things off my to-do list

6:00 Heading home with the sugared-up, over-stimulated party kids

7:00 Back at church for a meeting

8:00 Nothing like a solo run to Target after my meeting

9:00 Wrapping up a busy day with a drink and some menu planning (and just ignore the massive piles of laundry that didn't get put away, mmkay?)

10:00 Same spot, same drink, same untouched laundry, less productivity

And that's a wrap!

Day in the Life: December 21st

Oof. That's a late wake up time. Here's to doing better than that in the new year

7:00 Nothing like waiting until the last day of school before winter break to get teacher gifts delivered

8:00 Checking my library account because this time of year is always a constant battle of wanting to request more books than I have room to check out on my card

9:00 At our Old Courthouse Museum for a story time and craft (the history here is so cool and I love that they do monthly kids activities!)

10:00 Oh hi principal gifts that weren't ready to send to school with the boys this morning

11:00 No clue if Matthew is washing his hands or cleaning the bathroom sink/counter. It's honestly a 50/50 guess

12:00 Dropping off the last minute staff gifts before getting Matthew down for nap

1:00 So many leftover choices for lunch! (aka blessed to have a fridge that looks like this)

2:00 Trying to minimize our evening tasks by getting the dishwasher loaded during nap time

3:00 Love the house I grew up in, and love even more dropping the boys there for an overnight with Grandma and Grandpa!

4:00 Getting the house tidied up before Darrell gets home from work (and peep the dog kennel--yay for dog sitting again!)

5:00 Look at us heading out for a date night (and look how light of coats we are wearing for December in South Dakota!)

6:00 First stop: our favorite local pizza joint (lots of love to Sunny's Pizzeria!)

7:00 Second stop: a favorite local brewery for Beer and Carols with some friends from our pre-kids life!

8:00 Third stop: grocery store because #parentlife

9:00 Time for one of my favorite nights of the holiday season: wrapping presents and watching "The Holiday"

10:00 Presents are wrapped, mess is cleaned up, all that's left is enjoying our last few kid-free hours before picking them up in the morning!

Day in the Life: November 21st

Wouldn't you want to wake up to this picture every morning?

7:00 Being ready for school on time means a little bit of screen time in the morning

8:00 We leave tomorrow for our Thanksmas trip out east--lots of prep today (and grateful for a boy who can entertain himself when Mommy is busy!)

9:00 Also grateful for a boy who likes to help Mommy when her to-do list is massive...

10:00 because in addition to packing for a week-long trip out east I also have to make rolls for a Thanksgiving dinner at my parent's house tonight?

11:00 The desire to unpack our airplane suitcase and do our activities RIGHT.NOW is a real thing

12:00 Picking stories for naptime! 

1:00 Getting the airplane suitcase re-packed (and distracting myself from all the things that have to get done by putting a Netflix movie on in the background)

2:00 Oh hi bills that have to get paid before we head out of town!

3:00 Well hello last minute load of laundry!

4:00 Still grateful for boys who can entertain themselves while Mommy is busy

5:00 A library stop before long travel days is one hundred percent necessary

6:00 Thanksgiving celebration with my parents and siblings (let's not talk about how impromptu this dinner was, mmkay? I'm stressed just thinking about it)

7:00 And part of the reason for the stress? We were SUPPOSED to be getting together to celebrate my niece's birthday. "Thanksgiving" was a bit of an afterthought that got tacked on to the gathering, but I didn't want it to take away from her birthday (because you only turn seven once!)

8:00 And I was also stressed about making sure our boys got home and to bed at a decent time because we had a long day of travel the next day

9:00 No idea why what this picture represents. I know it's a picture of our super messy toy ottoman, and the only thing I can think of is that I took it shortly before I went digging through it to find Match Box cars to toss into travel suitcases for the boys. Or maybe I just wanted you to see one of the areas of controlled messes in my house. No idea.

10:00 Travel clothes laid out and organized on our bed...

11:00 Travel clothes packed away and ready to leave in the morning!

Is this a late bedtime? Yes. Am I super proud of how much we got done tonight to be ready to leave for our trip tomorrow? Also yes.