A Day in our Lives - following the trend

Am loving this trend so much - I'm jumping on.

I'll give you a typical workday - I won't consider the days when I need to get SR up at the crack of dawn so that she can be at "school" for 7 so I can get to a monitoring session at the fertility clinic.

WORKDAY:

6:00 a.m. - I wake up and start getting ready for the day - I need to take my iron an hour before I eat breakfast - and when I'm back on the progesterone pills I need to take that an hour before also so I have to get up early.

I take my time between 6 and 7.  I usually pack my lunch and my snacks, watch the weather and breakfast television shows, or catch up on my recorded tv shows.  I may do marking or go on the computer for a few minutes.  I try to eat breakfast around 7 so I'm finished before SR wakes up.

approx 7:10 a.m. - SR usually wakes up at this time on her own.  She calls out "mommy, mommy" and then throws her baby Kaiya and her blankie on the floor of her crib.  This is usually followed by "Oh no, Kaiya on the floor!"  I QUICKLY poor her milk into her cup and put it in the microwave - I can hear SR saying "Milkie, in the microwave, lid on".  I go into her room and we have our morning routine.  I get huggies, then kisses, then nosie kiss, then cheek to cheek followed by a demand for her "milkie".

I carry her out to the living room (one floor condo) where she drinks her milk while sitting on my lap (I never get dressed before this stage or her milk drips on me) and we watch breakfast television and I watch the school day forecast.  I need this for my recess duty and for deciding how many layers SR needs.

I leave SR alone to make her morning poo - although she says "I'm making a fart" - and then I run around getting dressed and brushing my teeth and deciding what SR will wear to school for the day.  SR will brush her teeth or allow me to help her.

I get SR dressed and allow her to "throw the dirty diaper in the garbage."  SR has found the garbage and will take kleenex, pretend to wipe her nose, and run to the garbage, only to start all over again.

I put her into the stroller - she can walk down to the car but I can't carry everything I need and hold her hand, so I always use the stroller before and after school.  We put on our shoes and jackets and I grab the garbage to throw down the chute.

approx 7:45 a.m. - take the elevator to the parking garage.  SR is usually singing the "school, school, we're going to school" song that I made up.  She chats me up the whole way to the car.  I load us into the car - I need to wait for SR to lean out of her car seat (she still sits rear facing) to find whatever toy (dora doll), book (dora book), or blanket she wants to hold before I strap her in.  She then asks for her music to be played and usually tells me a specific song she wants to hear.  The car ride is only 2 minutes to her school.

7:50 a.m. - arrive at SR's school.  Go inside and "put stuff away" (SR's words) as she looks for Dora in the other cubbies for the other kids - some kids have Dora shoes/backpacks/helmets, etc.  We walk over to her classroom and I give and get kisses and huggies and run out the door back to my car.  Now it's my turn to have the radio - I listen to SIRIUS radio - Broadminded....love it but not enough time listening to them.

8:05 a.m. - arrive at my school - I work VERY close to home, but next city over - a 7 to ten minute drive.

3:45 - 4:00 p.m. - out the door to go see SR. Listen to SIRIUS radio - Dr. Laura - she totally is against Choice Moms, but I enjoy her so much otherwise.

4:15 p.m. - pick up SR at school and hear about her day.  Get her stuff from her cubby and walk out to the car - we have to stop to read the daycare parking signs - SR picks out all of the letters she recognizes.

Depends on the day if we go to my parents' for dinner or run an errand or just go home.  Right now my parents are in Israel.  Today we just came home.

4:30 p.m. - takes me a while to get home even though I live 30 seconds away.  I linger in the daycare a bit and ask about her day.  SR likes to play with her figurines - All of the Sesame Street characters and Dora - she role plays with them.  I make dinner and chat with SR.

5:15 p.m. - Dinner for both of us.  I will also use this time to check email and facebook on my cell phone.  We don't sit at the table, I use my breakfast bar and SR sits in her high chair right beside it.  When she finishes with a plate or bowl, she puts it on the counter.

5:45 p.m. - SR watches a little TV while I clean up from dinner.

6:00 p.m. - Walk in the condo lobby - SR loves to play with the shapes on the carpet, get the mail and throw the junk mail in the garbage, talk to the people and the concierge,  go up and down the 4 little stairs by the entrance.

6:30 p.m. - back upstairs for SR's bath time.  A quick bath (every other night) with playtime with her bath Dora figurines, or her "shower" (little cup with holes in the bottom that seem like a shower), or her letters to practise her letters, always followed by bubbles as we drain the water - SR is a big fan of her ear plugs now too, as she helps to put them in and put them away.

6:50 p.m. - Milkie - She walks with me to the kitchen and tells me what to do.  "Open the fridge.  Milkie.  Microwave.  Beep.  Lid On.  Pick you up."  We walk to the living room and SR drinks her milkie.  We brush her teeth and then settle in for her books.  Usually 3 or 4.  She chooses what she wants to read.  Will often read along with me.

7:15 p.m. - bedtime.  put socks on feet.  Cream on belly - when she was sick (which was a lot) I would put vicks baby rub on her chest.  But now it's part of the routine that there is "cream on belly" so I put a little hand lotion on her chest every night and she giggles.  Then music on, noise on (white noise machine) and I love you.  I shut the door completely to her room.  In a couple of hours I go in to put a warmer blanket on her, but she doesn't like starting with the warm blanket.

7:20 p.m.  - as soon as she goes down, I jump into the shower.  Sometimes I hear SR singing or chatting if she wasn't quite ready to sleep yet.  I bring the monitor into the bathroom to hear her.

The rest of the evening is mine to prepare food or clean up, do marking, or just sit and relax.