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
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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!