Monday, August 13, 2012

A Month of Natalie - Typical Day


Describe a typical day in your current life.

There is “typical” day in my life so I will just tell you what I did today and how that correlates to my normal.

Brandon woke me up this morning at 5 a.m. and sweetly asked on his way out the door to work if I had remembered to pack his lunch for work. And honestly, I almost never forget, but I forgot last night. I offered to get up and pack him one but he let me sleep and so I snoozed until 6:30. For whatever reason my mind likes to turn on exactly ten minutes before my alarm goes off which drives me crazy, but alas. I laid there for the sweet and precious moments until 6:40 rolled around and I had to get out of bed.

 Ezra, who had been waiting patiently for who knows how long popped his little head out of his room and asked if he was allowed to get up yet. Since Brandon had already left for work I told him to go get in my bed and we could cuddle.

At about 6:55 I opened the door for Anna and her mother. Anna is the little girl I watch. She is fabulous at going to back to sleep so I laid her down and crawled back into bed with Ezra. Instead of falling back asleep like I had hoped he giggled and played for about twenty minutes before I gave in and told him he could go watch some cartoons until his brother woke up.

At this point in my morning I stole fifteen minutes of quiet, read Titus, and said a quick version of my daily prayers because I could hear that Elisha was also up.

With Anna still snoozing in the pack and play and Elisha and Ezra munching on grapes and watching Veggie Tales I hoped in the shower.

I spent the next hour and a half making breakfast for three hungry children and one sweet little old lady, getting dressed, trying unsuccessfully to pick up the house.

We left the house at 9:30, (it was supposed to be 9:15) and ran to Target. I had to pick up a few things for our small group brunch and grab a card for my wonderful friend Angie who recently adopted a beautiful little girl.

(Now, obviously I don’t have small group every morning but between homeschool groups, curriculum group at church, and a few other things we almost have something have morning.)

I had a fabulous time catching up with the girls from my small group and all the littles played wonderfully.

We left around lunch time, made a quick trip to the gas station and post office and headed home. Since I knew that Brandon would home about 2 we waited and had lunch with him.

While we were waiting Elisha and I worked on reading while Ezra read his novel. (Let me just steal this moment and brag on my baby, who is now reading at least one 100+ page book a week!)

When Brandon got home we had lunch together and then left to go pick up my nephew Zephaniah who is going to hang out with us for a few days.

Usually we do homeschool or swimming or some sort of activity during the afternoons but today we just chilled and played with Zephaniah and Anna. It’s a real treat to have the baby here so we just kind of kicked back and relaxed.
At 6:40 Anna’s mother came to pick her up. I fed Zephaniah dinner, jumped on the computer to do this really quick and now I have to feed the rest of the family.

After dinner the boys will shower, get ready for bed, Brandon will read them  a story while I try to make sense of my house that never really got clean this morning and then I will have some alone time with my sweet husband. 

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