Family photo 2013

Family photo 2013

Monday, October 20, 2008

Today until right now, 2:38 pm.

Wake up, make a healthy breakfast, check blogs, listen to oldest son complain about healthy breakfast, urge him to eat it so he can have a snack later, feed the baby, empty the dishwasher, eat healthy breakfast while standing in kitchen, take the baby off the dishwasher door, take the baby off the dishwasher door again, take knife from dishwasher from baby's hand, change the baby, change the big kid who wears diapers, clean up the healthy breakfast dishes, remind the kids of their chores, discipline the kid who is playing when they should be doing chores, rescue the baby from the tiny lego weapon on the floor, break up a squabble, sweep healthy breakfast crumbs off the floor, put away yesterday's laundry, remind one of the kids (again) to stay on chore task, answer e mails, start dinner preparations, pick up the needy baby, attempt dinner prep with one hand while holding needy baby, wipe baby's nose, put down needy baby, listen to needy baby cry, put needy baby in needy baby backpack, put roast in the crock pot, pour ingredients in bread machine, ask toddler to get off countertop, watch toddler scream in protest, send toddler to corner, clean up flour toddler spilled while on countertop, move clothes to dryer, bring more laundry to washer, clean up bread ingredients, allow toddler to leave the corner, take baby out of backpack because of pain from having my hair pulled over and over again, get dressed, brush teeth, ask someone to entertain needy baby for a minute, make bed, gather school supplies, nurse baby, put baby down for nap, prep snack, turn on Sesame Street for little boys, start school with big kids, finally drink my cold coffee, discipline little boys for interrupting school, do spelling, history, math, English, and Bible, remember that we forgot to pray to start the school day, pray at the end of the school day instead, clean up school, send kids outside for recess, listen to kids whine about the cold weather, tell them the *sunshine* and fresh air is good for them so toughen up, check blogs, leave blog comments to encourage fellow bloggers because we all enjoy receiving them, comfort child who sustained injury during recess, get baby up, make lunch, eat lunch right out of pot while standing in kitchen, give the children affirmation that no, I have never seen such beautiful coloring in all of my life, feed baby real food, spontaneously dole out character points to various children, tell kids to put away gloves and coats and shoes from recess, clean up lunch dishes, take baby off dishwasher, take baby off dishwasher again, take knife out of baby's hand again, start dishwasher, change baby again, change big boy again, comply to request for worship music by starting the cd player, turn of the music after 10 minutes because it seems to raise the kid's volume, vacuum and dust kid's bedrooms, listen to oldest daughter read, tell kids to tidy playroom, walk into bedrooms and realize they need to tidy bedrooms too, nurse baby, gather homework papers for big kids for quiet time, lose my cool in a moment of pre-nap frustration, yell, apologize for yelling, joke with the kids that I would gladly go to the corner for yelling because it would get me out of all the work I need to do, lay baby down for second nap, feel like a total jerk for yelling, remember that guilt is unproductive, try to squelch unproductive guilt, give big kids homework assignments, get lite brite for middle boy for quiet time, lay down with little boy for 15 minute nap, get up from nap, ask big kids to leave me alone for a moment while I blog ((((PLEASE))))wonder why I can not find more time in my day to take pictures, work out, and spend some quality(quiet)time with the Lord......
Time to go fold laundry and empty the dishwasher again. That bread smells go-od!

7 comments:

chrisnoelle said...

sounds almost like my day.

Last week I started an imaginary book entitled
"" I stand when I am eating''

sound familiar?

some say it's a control thing......i say it's just EASIER!

chrisnoelle said...

excuse my poor grammer.....

another title to my imaginary book...

"I Blog In the Dark"

cuz lil ones are sleeping near me.......always.

Holly said...

buaHAha!!!

Amy© said...

Awww.... it's so sweet that you gave us an account of about twenty minutes in your day! Cause I know if you really blogged all of it, it would take pages upon pages... ;)

Courtney said...

that was fun to read...thanks for sharing! makes me feel more normal :-)

Alicia said...

Just reading this makes me want to take a nap!!

Ice Cream Lady said...

You Rock! I'll be thinking of you tomorrow morning when I am cleaning up healthy breakfast and drinking cold coffee.

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