6:15am: Woke up and grabbed a cup of coffee. My husband makes coffee in the morning before heading off to the gym and I get the benefit of a hot cup of joe as soon as my eyes open! All the kids are sleeping still so Im stealing some time to putt around on the computer and have a quiet cup of coffee. I can hear the birds outside our dining room window. A nest is out there and the little birds, now grown, seem to like hanging out on the fence. They are so fluffy and cute.
7:00am: Well I emptied the dishwasher, dusted the living room, and picked up the miscellaneous toys that were left behind by the night elves. The kids are still sleeping, WIERD!!!
7:30am: Manny is home from working out and Gavin is awake and reading his instruction manual for Animal Crossing. They are just LOVING that game!! Maggie is up too and thrilled that she slept in her room all by herself. She has done this before, many times, but recently with a round of the flu she ended up back in Gavin's room. Yesterday we decided that it is much better to have her own space again and so she returned to her bed. I just got a request for a celebration breakfast to commemorate the big occasion!!
8:01am: One "celebration breakfast" served!
8:17am: Packing snacks and water bottles for the Community Gardening Project that we are doing this morning with our RGRS group. One bag with granola bars, peanuts, gummy fruit snacks, goldfish and Pirate's Bootie. Plus four bottles of filtered water chilling in the fridge.
8:20: Oscar came crawling into the kitchen... I guess he is awake!!
A fresh diaper and outfit and then a snack on the couch with Thomas the Tank Engine so Mommy can hit the shower.
9:00am: Kids are finishing breakfast, can you say SLOOOOOW??? They are basically snacking, chatting and watching Sid the Science Kid. Im getting everyone on their way, dressed and Grey is helping Maggie and Gavin to get their beds made.
9:30am: Loading up the car with monkeys and heading out the door for the OSVC and our gardening project.
10:00am: Begin service project with Rio Grande Roots & Shoots. Today we are planting the demonstration garden at the Open Space Visitors Center here in ABQ. They put this garden in last year and we helped them with it then. This year we planted all the vegetable seeds as well as the Ollas, watered everything in and helped to move large adobe bricks (much larger than a traditional brick) to a new location. This ran for about 1.5 hours, after which some of the kids, including Greyson, went inside to watch a really cool documentary about Land Artist, Andy Wordsworthy called "Rivers & Tides" It was really cool according to Grey, I had the littles out of the way to help others focus on the documentary. Check it out!! I posted an excerpt.
After we had to head out we swung by Starbucks for Mom's mid-day fix!! Venti, triple, iced, caramel macchiato, stirred. Mmmmmmm
Some of us chose this time to take a rest!!
3:00pm: Made a futile attempt to clean off our back porch. We have a beautiful back porch which currently has fallen prey to the "stuff" that haunts our life. We did have the "stuff" in the garage, but it had to go in order to make the garage a useable space. So out it went. However, now it is on my porch. We got rid of a lot of it, donating it etc.. BUT, I have these random bins of random stuff that I would love to just say "DONATE" and be done with it. However, within those bins are little family treasures. Each bin holds probably one or two things that I cant get rid of, a family heirloom that has been regrettably mistreated, or a wooden letter that Manny painted to hang in the baby's room before he was born. Little things like that force me to have to literally sort through each bin as though I were hunting for a nugget of gold. Oh yeah, I have a ton of time for that!!!
3:45pm: Load up the family and run Grey to fencing practice.
4:15pm: Home again. Its time to focus on getting everything together for the family dinner. Every Tuesday we have my husband's family over for dinner. Not the entire family, but his parents (who are divorced) and his brother. Occasionally my brother in law's wife will make an appearance, but that is always a surprise on the doorstep.
Tonight I decided to make beans, enchiladas, tostadas, tacos and red chili. My brother in law is SUPER picky, so I know he will only eat the tacos, but hey, I tried!
I need to vacuum the entire house, so much traffic makes our floors look terrible in no time at all. I also have to make sure the monkeys are cute and clean etc...
5:30pm: OK, I didnt really get rocking too hard on stuff. This is my hardest time of day. I have almost no energy and I start to get grumpy!!!
5:37pm: Sanity Shot!!! There are times when a person needs a small nip, or a full shot of tequila to keep the wheels in motion. Tuesday night, about a half hour or so before the in-laws arrive is just that time!!! Only one, no need to over-medicate!!!
5:40pm: Vacuuming!
6:30pm: The family arrives and I am a "Cookin Mama"
9:00pm: Family leaves, and I am a "Sleepy Mama" Manny puts the kids to bed each night, including Oscar. He does book time with the kids, and then gets them each a glass of ice water, starts the Jim Weiss story cd and then he and Oscar snuggle down on the couch with some mellow music until Oscar falls asleep. This started because if he nurses down (Oscar, not Manny) he wakes up every 40 minutes or so throughout the night. BUT, if Manny gets him down he will sleep for a few hours before his first night feeding.
Im in bed, watching whatever shows I have taped on the DVR before falling asleep.
I know this isnt a normal lesson day. I will do one of those soon. It is hard to type this much. LOL
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