I've been a crazy busy mama and have neglected my blog again but I've noticed a bit of a trend here... when my husband, who works a crummy, bleh schedule, works the night shift... I disappear!
My days look something like this:
6:30AM Wake up and get the 5 kids dressed, find the missing shoe and rush out the door for school.
8:00AM Back home for cereal and Dora and Diego with the 3 little ones.
8:30AM More cereal. Seriously. These kids could eat their weight in cereal.
9:00AM Find the kids trying to pour more cereal into cups so they can carry it to the living room (that or feeding the rest of the box to the dog!)
9:30AM Start watching the clock, begging it to move faster and trying desperately to justify laying them down for a nap early.
10:00AM Daily chores: laundry, dishes, floors, hotspots... etc.
10:15AM Take the toilet paper (or marker, or cup of dirt from outside, or bag of popsicles from the freezer) away from the kids, clean up the giant mess.
10:30AM Take the toilet paper (or marker, or cup of dirt from outside, or bag of popsicles from the freezer) away from the kids, clean up the giant mess and rip out wads of my hair in frustration.
11:30AM Lunch time! Almost there!!
Noon I made it! I survived the morning and can now lay the kids down for nap guilt free!
12:30PM The kids are down and it's time for some me time! Grab a coke and veg out on Pinterest!!
12:34PM Kids are screaming... must intervene before they wake up daddy.
12:40PM Back to Pinterest.
12:46PM Kids are screaming again...
12:55PM Back to Pinterest.
12:59PM You guessed it... more screaming.
NOTE: This could make for a really long boring blog post if I keep this up so in the interest of time I'll stop now. But know that this continues until about 2:45PM
3:00PM Time to pick up the kids and wait in the 30minute pickup line. Do not consider getting out of your car to pick up your kids quicker. They will hold your children hostage and make you go to the end of the line for being so stupid.
3:30PM Finally back home where the big kids wake up daddy and the little kids within 10 minutes despite the 5 minute lecture and 3 reminders to be quiet.
4:00PM Dad takes the kids outside for baseball practice and I stay inside cooking up dinner.
5:00PM A frantic rush to get dinner on the table and Dad out the door!
5:30PM Clean up dinner and send the kids outside to run and scream and throw dirt.
6:00PM After breaking up several fights and banishing a couple whiney kids from the kitchen I declare "movie night" and we all veg out in front of the TV together.
7:30PM Time to get ready for bed! Sometimes I'm a good mom and we do baths and brush teeth... and sometimes I throw their PJs in the room and say prayers while I'm shutting the door.
Repeat the naptime situation here until about 9PM
It's all so very exhausting.
But when he goes back to days, I wake up super early with him and send him off to work. The mornings are quiet and peaceful before the kids wake up and I have time to sit down in front of the computer or sewing machine.
I really enjoy these mornings and unrushed dinners and having someone to crash with at the end of the day.
So here's to a month of the day shift!
Hopefully I can get back to my blog. I really do love it here.
