This should motivate me to take better mental notes of the happenings in the Wadley family. So, here is a typical day in the life...
Wake up at 7:00. Read scriptures. Then I go running while Eric showers and starts feeding the kids and helping Michael get ready for school. Ella dilly dallies a bunch. Michael and Ella fight over who can say the prayer (Ella wants to every time and cries through the prayer if she can't say it).
8:30, I get home in time to tell Michael goodbye and hopefully say family prayer. Then I finish feeding William and eat breakfast while I read the newspaper and clean up the kitchen. Then it's time to shower and put things away... general straighten up... for some reason it's endless. I admire some people who always seem to have everything put away.
10:30 Then it's time to read to William and put him down for his nap. More general straighten up. Usually can't help peeking at email and facebook updates, which I want to get in the habit of only looking at a few minutes in the evening... or even every other evening. It's also my personal scripture study and prayer time. My hope is to also have a little time for reading before Michael gets home from school... but somehow it's not happening.
11:30 Michael gets home from school. It's time to start getting lunch ready, and continuing the process of getting things clean and orderly. We'll eat by 12:00, finish cleaning up by 12:30. Wow, on paper it doesn't seem like I'm getting much done. We may start our reading time by 1:00. We will often read for an hour... Michael will read to us about 15-20 minutes, and I will read to him and Ella 30-45 minutes. We love our reading time. We often read chapter books without a lot of pictures. But Michael and Ella have learned to listen pretty well (even though they are wiggling and contorting their bodies all the while)! : )
The rest of the afternoon seems like a blur of cleanup, maybe a nap (which I usually need when I'm pregnant), fixing dinner or thinking about what to fix. I don't know where the time goes, but I feel busy all the time and before I know it it's dinner time and we eat, cleanup, hang with the kids and get them ready for bed.
Before bed there is hopefully a little time to read.
Lots of days have special projects and activities... laundry, deep cleaning, library activities, errands. Somehow there never seems to be enough time. Usually there are children playing here in the afternoon. I don't feel very talented at this blogging thing. This is so mundane.
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I love hearing about the day-to-day stuff that other stay-at-home moms experience. Throw in a few stories about how you caught your two-year-old mopping the bathroom floor with the toilet brush (yes, Luke did that once about a year and a half ago, and I about threw up) and I am riveted!
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