Saturday, May 23, 2009
A Day In The Life
Somehow, and it's not so unfathomable to believe, my life has become incredibly full. Full in every sense of the word. Full in loving my work at Nurtured, full in loving my children, full in not caring anymore whether I'm wearing the "right" shoes with the "right" pants. It's also become full in the sense that absolutely nothing in my life is unplanned. My schedule is packed to the gills, and more than ever, Scotian and I are playing more team parenting than co-parenting as he takes the reins that allow me to work full-time (and then some), and I step in to allow him some much needed downtime.
My days go something like this:
5:30 am, I'm wide awake at this time of year, the breaking light signals that it's time to get up and start the day. I make tea, throw in a load of laundry, and usually look at a new supplier catalogue, read the latest issue of Mothering, and plan my day.
6 am Spunky is up like clock work, looking for "shaggios" - his way of asking for breakfast.
7 am BananaMuffin screams out of bed, waking up too fast and taking a full half hour to calm down before we can communicate rationally. Load of laundry gets hung out on line.
8:30 am kids are somehow magically out the door and we walk to daycare. I head to work. Sometimes a second load of laundry gets hung out on the line if we're especially efficient.
8:30-5:30 pm - a blur of administration, phone calls, emails, product suppliers, familiar faces, and to-do lists that continually fill but never get completed. The odd cup of tea and a muffin from FRED.
5:45 pm - somehow getting to daycare on time to pick the kids up before 6.
6 pm - kids dirty from the playground have a quick snack while supper is cooked (usually by Scotian, I must admit).
7 pm - hopefully by now supper is in our bellies, kids are in the tub.
8 pm - hopefully jammies are on and kids are in bed. Most likely they're not.
9 pm - supper clean up, more laundry, getting diapers organized for daycare the next day, check the kids schedules - anything we need to bring, make, get ready or otherwise have on hand for daycare in the morning. Bring in laundry, put out another load to start drying overnight.
10 pm - start a batch of Baby Balm, measuring out all the ingredients and simmering the herbs.
11 pm - keeping an eye on the stove, I sit down to do a bit of sewing and enjoy the night air.
midnight - sleep.
1:30 am - oven timer starts ringing reminding a now sleeping self to get up and turn the stove off.
5:30 am - repeat.
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