{"id":10168,"date":"2016-02-10T09:59:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=10168"},"modified":"2016-02-10T09:59:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:59:50","slug":"10168","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/10\/10168\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life: Homeschool Activities and Baby Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

My last Day in the Life<\/a> post was just two weeks after Pipsqueak was born. \u00a0We were just settling in to life with four and things were still a little crazy. \u00a0Well, they’re still crazy but we have finally gotten a bit of a routine down!\"day<\/p>\n

5:00 Laying in bed, listening to Pipsqueak grunt and kick his feet, hoping he’ll put himself back to sleep<\/p>\n

5:15 Nursing Pipsqueak<\/p>\n

5:30 Trying to settle Pipsqueak in his bed<\/p>\n

5:45 Nursing Pipsqueak<\/p>\n

6:00 Snuggling Pipsqueak on the couch and watching Project Runway<\/p>\n

6:15 Dozing on the couch while snuggling Pipsqueak<\/p>\n

6:30 Dozing on the couch while snuggling Pipsqueak<\/p>\n

6:45 Dozing on the couch while snuggling Pipsqueak<\/p>\n

7:00 Dozing on the couch while snuggling Pipsqueak<\/p>\n

7:15 Nursing Pipsqueak and dozing while talking to the girls<\/p>\n

7:30 Helping the girls and Doodle with their Valentine’s<\/p>\n

7:45 Saying good-bye to Hubby<\/p>\n

8:00 Making breakfast (including coffee)<\/p>\n

8:15 Eating breakfast<\/p>\n

8:30 Cutting a hole out of Sugarplum’s shoebox for Valentine’s<\/p>\n

8:45 Getting Doodle dressed<\/p>\n

9:00 Folding diaper inserts<\/p>\n

9:15 Loading everyone in the car<\/p>\n

9:30 At the grocery store picking up a snack to share at our Homeschool group<\/p>\n

9:45 At the park, waiting for homeschool Valentine’s party to begin<\/p>\n

10:00 Scribbling names on Valentine treats to share with friends<\/p>\n

10:15 Chatting with the other homeschooling moms about the cool weather<\/p>\n

10:30 Helping kids make Valentine craft bags<\/p>\n

10:45 Nursing Pipsqueak and again complaining about the cold with the other moms<\/p>\n

11:00 Handing out and collecting Valentine’s<\/p>\n

11:15 Driving to out homeschool gymnastics class<\/p>\n

11:30 Driving to gymnastics<\/p>\n

11:45 In the potty at gymnastics with Doodle<\/p>\n

12:00 Changing Pipsqueak’s diaper in the car<\/p>\n

12:15 Nursing Pipsqueak and giggling\u00a0with the other parents over our children’s awkwardness<\/p>\n

12:30 Putting on Doodle’s shoes while girls pass out Valentine’s to their gymnastics friends<\/p>\n

12:45 Driving home while Pipsqueak screams<\/p>\n

1:00 Driving home<\/p>\n

1:15 Making lunch<\/p>\n

1:30 Eating lunch and trying to entertain\u00a0Pipsqueak<\/p>\n

1:45 Changing Pipsqueak’s diaper<\/p>\n

2:00 Doing spelling with Sugarplum and arguing with Honeybun about doing hers while nursing Pipsqueak<\/p>\n

2:15 Doing spelling with both girls and counting with Doodle<\/p>\n

2:30 Doing spelling with Honeybun and math with Sugarplum<\/p>\n

2:45 Doing spelling with Honeybun and math with Sugarplum<\/p>\n

3:00 Cleaning up school<\/p>\n

3:15 Reading with Doodle before nap<\/p>\n

3:30 Nursing Pipsqueak and checking e-mail, watching\u00a0Reign\u00a0<\/em>on Netflix<\/p>\n

3:45 Having some ice cream, watching\u00a0Reign<\/em><\/p>\n

4:00 Blogging, watching\u00a0Reign<\/em><\/p>\n

4:15 Snuggling Pipsqueak, watching\u00a0Reign<\/em><\/p>\n

4:30 Blogging, watching\u00a0Reign<\/em><\/p>\n

4:45 Blogging, watching\u00a0Reign<\/em><\/p>\n

5:00 Getting kids up from nap<\/p>\n

5:15 Getting snacks<\/p>\n

5:30 Looking over Honeybun’s school work, discussing the intricacies of cursive writing<\/p>\n

5:45 Changing Pipsqueak’s diaper<\/p>\n

6:00 Trying to figure out how to use the shredder attachment for my stand mixer<\/p>\n

6:15 Making pancakes (it was Pancake Tuesday in Ireland)<\/p>\n

6:30 Washing dishes<\/p>\n

6:45 Cooking pancakes (Dairy Free Carrot Coconut<\/a>, soooo yummy!)<\/p>\n

7:00 Serving up dinner<\/p>\n

7:15 Eating Dinner and nursing Pipsqueak<\/p>\n

7:30 Changing Pipsqueak’s diaper<\/p>\n

7:45 Scheduling blog tweets<\/p>\n

8:00 Getting Doodle ready for bed<\/p>\n

8:15 Nursing Pipsqueak and checking in on Facebook<\/p>\n

8:30 Playing with Pipsqueak and finishing my episode of\u00a0Reign<\/em> from earlier<\/p>\n

8:45 Playing with Pipsqueak and watching\u00a0Life in Pieces\u00a0<\/em>with hubby<\/p>\n

9:00 Nursing\u00a0Pipsqueak and watching\u00a0Life in Pieces\u00a0<\/em>with hubby<\/p>\n

9:15 Watching\u00a0Life in Pieces\u00a0<\/em>with hubby<\/p>\n

9:30 Watching\u00a0Life in Pieces\u00a0<\/em>with hubby<\/p>\n

9:45 Getting ready for bed<\/p>\n

10:00 Laying Pipsqueak down<\/p>\n

10:15 Asleep (and baby slept all the way until 7:00 this morning, yay Pipsqueak!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My last Day in the Life post was just two weeks after Pipsqueak was born. \u00a0We were just settling in to life with four and things were still a little crazy. \u00a0Well, they’re still crazy but we have finally gotten a bit of a routine down! 5:00 Laying in bed, listening to Pipsqueak grunt and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,284,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-breastfeeding","category-the-home-school-zone","category-time-to-celebrate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10176,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions\/10176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}