With how hectic life has been lately, I still prayed so hard for this life and I feel the need to slow down and document it. It’s not to brag about how busy we are or anything like that, because everybody is, it’s that I simply know myself and I know these are exactly the days I will look back on with fondness and miss once they are gone, even though they were overwhelming at the time. The thing I think I like best is that no two days are the same which works well with my personality because the second something starts to feel mundane, I need something to change and parenthood is the epitome of the saying, “never a dull moment.”  This is a morning (afternoon to come) in the life on a random day, mid-week, with 3-, 9- and 11-year-olds: 

6:30 – 7:30am mike is downstairs prepping breakfasts and lunches, and I am upstairs changing noah’s diaper, doing the girls hair (if they want my help that morning, that is which might include curls or straightening or bangs management for my middle child) and getting myself ready for the day

7:40 – after breaking up a few sibling spats and the several reminders to eat vitamins, grab lunches, waters, snacks, homework, coats and strings (aka capri’s violin) and we’re out the door for school drop off 

8:00 – back home to clean up breakfast, get our dog lola out and get noah dressed for school including making sure he has all the things in his backpack (change of clothes, extra diapers/wipes, hats and gloves for these colder months) 

9:00 – back to a quiet house where I take a minute to warm up my now cold coffee and soak up the silence or put on my favorite tunes or play a podcast 

9:30 – take our dog, Lola, on a nice long walk if time allows, catch up on work/school/general emails, run to the grocery if we’re running low, volunteer at school as either a media volunteer, guest reader, yearbook contributor, ice cream science experiment supervisor OR co-lead on t-shirt production for the cast and crew for my daughter’s spring musical show at her school and get in a workout 

10 – on the days I think to schedule it far enough in advance, there is the rare occasion where I will schedule coffee with a friend to catch up on life or if anything along the lines of my health needs to be scheduled like a doctor’s appointment or a work call or an assignment for my continuing education certification on certain days 

11 – when it hits this time, I’m usually scrambling to purge anything I can while the kids are away at school like old clothes we may want to donate, books that can go to another home or toys that are on their last leg

11:30 – leave to go pick up Noah but not before I make a stop at Dunkin for his favorite glazed munchkins