4 p.m. – Leave work, try to find something on the radio to listen to on my hour-long commute home. Switch radio stations every other song.
5 p.m. – Get home finally and only by the grace of God.
5:15 p.m. – I gotta pee.
5:20 p.m. – Start dinner. Thank the Lord I took something out the night before to thaw.
5:30 p.m. - Dinner’s bubbling on the stove, I take a minute to change out of my work clothes, check the mail, voicemail, work e-mail, etc.
5:45 p.m. – My family comes home. My daughter brings in their lunch boxes and hands them to me. She calls me “Lady.” I don’t know if I like this or not. My son barrels into the house like a tornado and I visibly tense up when I hear him rounding the corner. My husband comes in, tired-looking, gives me a slight nod and then heads straight to the fridge for a snack, regardless of the fact that dinner IS ALMOST READY. Like, “let me just get a plate” ready.
6 p.m. – We eat dinner.
6:04 p.m. – I’m done.
6:05 p.m. – Ow, heartburn!
6:15 p.m. – The hubby and kids are done.
6:30 p.m. – Cleaning up because the table, floor, high chair, chairs, kids are all a mess.
6:45 p.m. – Load dishes in the dishwasher. (On a good day – on a bad day, those dishes might be sitting for a while. Which is totally lazy. I know.)
7:00 p.m. – IT IS TIME FOR THESE KIDS TO GO TO BED. No? Oh.
7:15 p.m. – Playing games, reading books, a few after dinner snacks and drinks.
7:30 p.m. – Bath, get lotioned up, reading, GOOD NIGHT KIDS!
8 p.m. – Cleaning up so the house doesn’t look a mess in the morning.
8:45 p.m. – Writing, doing freelance work, blogging, replying to comments (Did you know I try to reply to every comment you all leave me? I’m considerate like that…)
11:30 p.m. – Try to go to bed. Curl up with magazine or hubby.
Midnight – PASSED.OUT.
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i won’t even atempt to do this for myself because it will look insane….so i’ll just say “yikes!” at yours, lolol
The life of a mommy is soooo busy, isn’t it? Sheesh, reading this made my head spin – but my household/routine isn’t so diferent!
lol @ ure hubby reaching for a snack just before dinner. oooh, that gets under my skin when my dh does that. im like, dude, just WAIT. dinner is almost done! lol
I’d be PASSED. OUT. after a day like that too! How you can stay up ’til nearly midnight is seriously beyond me. I try like heck to make it to bed by 9:30. Ten at the latest. But then again, that baby I had when I was 16 is 15 herself now and she has taken over dinner dishes, so that frees up a lot of my time.
I just wanted to say hey. I’m Darcie. We’ll be meeting this weekend at Walt Disney World! I’m on the Disney World Moms panel and I get to hang out with all you fabulous bloggers! Can’t wait to say hi in person!
P.S. We have a lot in common; I was a young mommy too!
@Darcie – Hi there!
Can’t wait to meet you! And no, I don’t know how i stay up to midnight (ot later) most nights. It wears me out….I NEED this trip to Disney!
What I hate even more than my husband eating snacks right before dinner is when I haven’t finished cooking yet, and he sneaks in the kitchen when I go to the bathroom or soemthing and makes a huge plate of chicken, and then when dinner is finished he’s not hungry anymore. run-on…I know.