A Day in My Life...

8:10 am -- I am woken up by my toddler as he crawls into bed with me. Looking at the clock I realize we've slept in!! My husband and I stay in bed and snuggle him for a few minutes before the craziness starts.
8:20 am -- My hubby goes to get our oldest up and I make a bee line for the bathroom to brush me teeth, hair and um.. Other things :)
8:30 am -- The drill sergeant, that's me, heads into my sons room to find both child and father laying together, NO ONE IS UP!! So I spend the next 7 minutes bribing, threatening my son to get up and get dressed.
8:40 am -- We finally head downstairs, I have sent my husband ahead of me to prepare some chocolate milk and a breakfast bar for a quick snack in the car on the way to school.
8:45 am -- My son and I are on our way. I leave our little one at home with Daddy, since he didn't make it to his first class.
8:57 am -- Drop child off at Montessori and head back home.
9:12 am -- (Yes I tried hard to pay attention to the times just for your viewing pleasure) I arrive back home and both toddler and daddy are in the tub.
9:22 am -- I check my email, and yes the jacket I've ordered from MEC is on it's way.. YAY! I look at the Flylady chore for the day, ignoring it as I almost always do. Look at all the new listings for houses on a local web site and then I'm off.
9:53 am -- Hubby yells for coffee ....Please.
10:00 am -- We all bundle up and we are off to drive daddy to University.
10:23 am -- Arrive home and make little J some tomato soup with crackers, let watch Caillou while he eats.
10:35 am -- Start dishes, phone rings it's my dear sis-in law. We chat about her joining the gym and so on.
10:44 am -- Take out the stinky trash, try to get more dishes done.
10:50 am -- Oops I forgot to call the gym to book the kids in for babysitting, I call and they are full. %*&#$!!! Well I will call back to see if someone cancels.
10:57 am -- Make Big son a little lunch in case the gym pans out and we can go.
11:00 am -- Bundle little J up 'again' and head out.
11:05 am -- stop for gas, of course he has to 'help' and we buy bubble gum for being a good 'helper' ;)
11:23 am -- Get to the school, unload little J and head in to wait. Chit-chat with the other moms and dads and grab big son.
11:45 am -- Get kids into van, hand big son his lunch and pray that the gym has had a cancellation.. No luck AUG!!! This sucks. We head home.
12:00 pm -- Kids watch Dragon Tales, I feed myself, and then decide to get little J's work desk set up, so I head downstairs fish out an old table and kids chair and drag them upstairs. He 'helps' me carry them which just about put out my back. Well of course his room is a disaster so I spend the next 25 minutes cleaning it and organizing, I finally have his desk ready, he gets about 5 minutes of usage before nap time.
1:00 pm -- It's that glorious time of the day when all is quiet and calm. Big son asks me to play Nintendo with him. So we play for about 30 minutes and then I go to finish the kitchen I started mid-morning.
2:30 pm -- Little J is up and they have been glued to the TV for some time so I kick them off and up to their rooms. We oh and awe over little J's room then each boy heads off to draw rockets and color. We then pull out the leggo's and make spaceships.
3:30 pm-- I tell Big son to get his swimming trunks on. I pack up the towels, the snacks, toy cars for little J to play with while we are there.
3:45 pm -- I bundle both children up and we head out again to the van for swimming lessons.
3:57 pm -- get big son undressed, shove all our winter coats into 2 lockers and find a table for little J and I to watch Big son swim.
4:30 pm -- drag the kids into the private shower room before all the stalls are taken. Big son goes right in and then little J decides he needs a shower also. So I undress him and they both shower. After I have pushed the button for the shower to continue about 5 times I drag Big son out, dry him off and dress him as he complains the whole time about his younger brother having a longer shower then him. Once both kids are dried and dressed we head home.
5:00 pm -- Arrive home, put on a show and rush to cut up chicken. Get supper on it's way to the table. In between starting supper and eating there is quite a bit of fighting and kids complaining how hungry they are and just can't wait.
6:00 pm -- Eat with the kids. Hubby isn't home yet from playing squash. We are just about finished when he walks in.
6:30 pm -- We are all upstairs, little J has to show daddy his room. Big son wants dad to make paper airplanes and I am veg'd out on our bed watching Entertainment Tonight.
7:00 pm -- Turn out the light for Big son and tell hubby I am heading to the gym.
8:00 pm -- Get home from the gym to find both kids up.. AUGH!! Is this day going to end??
8:10 pm -- Daddy takes little J up to get pj's on. Big son has the massager out and 'forces' me to sit for 15 minutes getting my back rubbed. ( the things I won't do for these kids :) ) It was heaven!!
8:30 pm -- both kids are in bed, and that brings us to this point. My plans for the rest of the night. Put supper food away, a hot bath and Grey's Anatomy.
Life is hectic BUT when I look at these faces.... It makes it all worth it!