A Day in the Life

When I was working, we used to do a running log to help track children’s behaviors and come up with a plan to help manage certain behaviors.  We would write down exactly what the child was doing every so many minutes (usually between 3 and 5 minutes for an hour or two).  I thought it would be interesting to do the same for the daily life of a mommy.  Here was what I was doing every 15 minutes yesterday:

12:00 Doodle wakes up for a feed

12:15 Feeding Doodle

12:30 back to sleep

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3:00 Doodle wakes up for a feed/diaper change

3:15 Feeding Doodle

3:30 back to sleep

6:30 Doodle wakes up for a feed

6:45 Feeding Doodle  in bed, trying to go back to sleep

7:00 Still trying to go back to sleep

7:15 Hubby’s alarm goes off

7:30 Making breakfast

7:45 Eating Breakfast

8:00 Writing a blog post and directing Honeybun to get ready for school

8:15 Feeding Doodle while trying to catch up on the news AND play Uno with Sugarplum

8:30 Working on a blog post and guzzling my (decaf) coffee

8:45 Trying to find something for Doodle to do other than suck on my boob…maybe a diaper change will help?

9:00 Playing Slap Jacks with Sugarplum while trying to put Doodle to sleep

9:15 Working on grocery shopping list

9:30 Feeding Doodle while reading a book

9:45 Burping Doodle

10:00 Bagging up my milk drips to freeze for another day

10:15 Putting together baby announcements to mail out

10:30 Arguing with Sugarplum over whether or not she’s going to get ANOTHER snack

10:45 Changing Doodle’s diaper

11:00 Feeding Doodle and watching The Price is Right

11:15 Getting dressed

11:30 Putting pigtails in Sugarplum’s hair

11:45 Loading kids into car for our preschool run cause it’s raining (again)

12:00 Waiting to be let into the preschool to pick up Honeybun

12:15 Driving home from school pick up

12:30 Eating Lunch and finishing grocery list

12:45 Working on same blog post as earlier

1:00 Begging girls to be quieter so they don’t wake up their brother (just before they popped a balloon and mass hysteria ensued)

1:15 Sitting in bathroom waiting for Sugarplum to pee before nap

1:30 Finally laying girls down for nap

1:45 Sitting (and watching Dance Moms)

2:00 Sitting (and still watching Dance Moms)

2:15 Sitting (and still watching Dance Moms)

2:30 Feeding Doodle (and still watching Dance Moms)

2:45 Talking to Doodle (and still watching Dance Moms)

3:00 Alternating between staring at my sleeping boy and watching Dance Moms

3:15 Sitting girls back down to finish their lunch

3:30 Feeding Doodle while also dressing Honeybun for ballet class

3:45 Loading up the car to head for ballet

4:00 Unloading at ballet

4:15 Sitting and chatting with other Ballet Moms

4:30 Feeding Doodle while chatting with other Ballet Moms

4:45 Sitting and chatting with other Ballet Moms

5:00 Changing Doodle’s diaper

5:15 Driving home from ballet

5:30 Sitting outside while girls play

5:45 Chatting with neighbor (who apparently never noticed I was pregnant)

6:00 Feeding Doodle

6:15 Putting dinner in the oven

6:30 Changing Doodle’s diaper

6:45 Setting girls down with Dinner

7:00 Eating dinner

7:15 Helping girls with an art project

7:30 Stamping birth announcements to mail out

7:45 Cleaning up dinner

8:00 Doing journal with girls before bed

8:15 Sitting and updating this blog post

8:30 Watching TV with hubby

8:45 Feeding Doodle while watching TV

9:00 Cuddling Doodle, waiting for him to fall asleep

9:15 Washing up for bed

9:30 Sleeping!