A day in the life of this mama

My friend Jenn did a post like this and I thought it was neat. It was a glimpse into what her life is like on a day to day basis. I thought it would be fun to look back years from now and remember today.

5:30am - wake up, get cup of coffee that B had made me shower, get ready

6:20am- wake up Emma, help her get dressed, comb and do her hair

6:30am- wake up Caitlyn, change diaper, put her hair in a little bun

6:40am- downstairs for breakfast (cereal, fruit and milk), get Emma's lunch in backpack, items in car, Emma vitamin, brush teeth, tidy kitchen, shoes on

7:00am- load up and head to Edu-Prize to drop off Emma for Kindergarten

7:25am- arrive at Edu-Prize - give Emma her loving wishes for the day, kisses (Caitlyn requests hers on her knee??) and off Emma runs onto the Kindergarten playground

7:35am- through the Starbucks drive through for my daily iced Americao with cream and splenda (and yes I do realize that I already had a small cup of coffee), you will see as the day progresses why I need caffeine. Talk to my parents on the phone (since they are so busy now that they are retired I can hardly catch them).

8:00am- arrive at the Stenhoff house to pick of Bethany who is going to watch Caitlyn for me as a mother's helper while I work

8:30am- arrive at home and get settled in

8:30-11:00am- finish an Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills (ABLLS) report for a client in Gilbert Public Schools. Develop academic/social and self help programs for the same client.

11:00am-thank Bethany and send her with her Mom, Tara

11:15am- prepare lunch for Caitlyn and myself while making Emma's lunch for tomorrow

11:30am- eat lunch with my lovely 2 year old Caitlyn

11:45am- leave to get E a bit early to go through Dunkin Donuts drive through to get E's teacher a little gift card for her bday (she drinks tea or something from there)

12:20pm- pull in car pool line at Edu-Prize

12:35pm- finally get to Emma and greet her and hear about her day

12:50pm- pull into garage, unload car while girls play in the loft

1:00pm- prepare Emma's sight word lesson for her to do independently while I put Caitlyn down

1:25pm- read, rock, sing to Caitlyn before nap time

1:35-2:10pm- work with Emma on academics

2:15pm- Emma goes to rest while I clean up kitchen

3:00pm- mail came, go to door and see the blog book Bryan ordered me on the step, sit down to look at it, talk to Tara on the phone

3:30pm- E comes down, help her make a card for Mrs. Lang, get out water colors for her while I prep dinner and make drinks for tomorrow

4:00pm- wake up Caitlyn and get her ready for her ISR refresher with Miss Angelee

4:25pm- leave house, drop E off at Stenhoffs for a play date with Mathea while C is at swimming

5:00pm- Caitlyn goes to ISR lesson at Angelee's in Queen Creek and does awesome (she tells her "I have two arms", as she jumps off the step)

5:45pm- pick up Emma (she had lots of fun)

6:00pm- in the door to enjoy dinner that Bryan made for us- wheat, organic pasta, salad and rolls -mmmmmm

6:30pm- change clothes and off to my Total Conditioning at Lifetime to burn 595 calories - ohhhh yeah and major stress relief

8:30pm- shower (long shower), snack and this blog post

Yes, my wonderful, awesome husband cooked, cleaned and got the girls down so that I could go work out. Thanks honey.

OK- I am headed downstairs to watch the first ever episode of Mad Men (since we have started watching it) but we are lost, so we got it on Net flicks.

GOOD NIGHT.

Not all days are quite this busy but they are all full that is for sure. I am so thankful for this blessed life (even when it is busy and the wonderful people I get to share it with). I love you Bryan, Emma and Caitlyn.

Now, I am looking forward to girls night over at Jenn's tomorrow night and my long run on Saturday. But, until then I will give every moment my all. sweet dreams

Tomorrow I am going to have Bryan post about a day in the life of a Daddy !!