A day in my life....

I haven’t posted one of these in a while, and since having Katy and heading back to work – our routine has changed a bit.

is what we now have in the mornings when the kiddos are going to preschool/daycare.

Let me elaborate…

5:45 – 6:30am – Baby alarm or alarm clock wakes me up and I soothe baby if it was baby alarm and pump, then shower.  Tim watches baby if she is awake.

6:30 – 7am – I get dressed, fix my hair, get the kids up and get them ready (Mondays & Fridays). 

7 – 7:30/7:45am – Fix lunches, finish odds & ends, feed Coop breakfast, get something out to thaw for dinner, pack up the car, then the kids and head out the door.

7:45 – 8:30/8:45am – Drive the 25 miles to daycare #1, drop Cooper off, drive to daycare #2, drop Kate off, then head into work.  Arrive.

8:30/8:45 – 10:00am Work

10:00 – 10:25am – Pump

10:25 – 2:00pm – Work & Eat lunch at my desk

2:00 – 2:25pm – Pump

2:25 – 4:30 Work

 4:30 – 5:15/5:45pm – Leave work.  Pick up kids if it's Monday/Friday, head home.  Arrive around 5:45 if a Monday/Friday, 5:15 Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday.

5:15/5:45 – 7:00pm – Pump, cook dinner, play with kids, eat, pick up around the house, make bottles for next day, clean up dinner, wash bottles.

7:00 – 8:30pm – Feed Katy (cereal and bottle), play with Cooper, start winding him down in anticipation for bedtime, brush his teeth, give kids baths (2-3x per week for Kate, 3-4x per week for Cooper), read 2-3 books to Coop, sing songs to Coop, pray with him and lights out.  In the meantime, the other one of us parents gets Kate ready for bed, gets sleeper and sleep sack on and calms her down for sleep.

8:30 – 10:00pm – Clean up the downstairs some more, try to sit down to relax and unwind if there is time.  Pump and try to sleep by 10:30.  Most nights, we're lucky if we have time to sit down by 9:15.  Cooper gets up to use the bathroom (#1 and #2) at least 2x between the time we tuck him in and 10pm.  

The days are short - but so very worth every minute of it.  I'm exhausted, Tim is exhausted and there are days when we just want to lay down and do nothing.  If we could take the kids to the daycare and come home and sleep sometime, it might make our life!!!  But.... alas, we don't do it, we suck it up, because there is no crying in baseball, AND these little blessings make our world complete!  

Sometime this week, I plan to post about Katy's fourth month of life!  She turned 5 months over the weekend! :)

Happy Monday to you all!