A Day in the life of a stay at home mom part 3: This day still isn't over?

And now I present the final installment of a day in the life of a stay at home mom: This has been a fun little exercise and helped me realize that even though I may not always have tangible evidence to prove it, I'm a pretty productive and busy little bee. I encourage anyone who reads this to try it out, it's kind of fun to see all the things you can cram into a day.

By 6:30 I'm pretty pooped but thankfully evenings are aided by the equally tired by still incredibly hands on Dadio. Major major props to all the single mom's out there (or mom's whose husbands aren't around to help in the evenings.) You women are amazing to handle days AND nights on your own!

Taber comes in and I pass off the chub so I can finish dinner

Breakfast for dinner. We eat pretty gourmet around here ; )

Omelets for the grown ups

Pancakes for the kids.

Nice how the little savages completely ingore their silverware and eat with their hands. Like I said, some days you choose your battles.

Brinley dissapears from the Table then comes back with pink marker all over her. "Mom! Dis marker writed on me!" Naughty little marker.

I wipe her arm then take Cam upstairs to feed him.

Come back down to find this

Daddy/daughter wrestle time. Highlight of their day.

Cam is only slightly amused. And I am rocking the frazzled ponytail look. I swear I DID shower today, but the hair can only take so much before it succumbs to the ponytail.

Airplane!!

Me too Daddy!

Girls are having fun so I decide they can skip their baths while I bathe Cam.

Sweet naked little baby

All clean and ready for night night. 1 down, 2 to go!

Brush out the sugar bugs

Teya too.

Bedtime story with Daddy. Song, prayer, lights out. Phew!

"MOM! I want a bottle!" arg! We're trying to wean her but I've never been strong when it comes to weaning. I cave, here you go Brinsie.

FINALLY the kids are down (8:40ish) Taber changes and heads down to the basement to get his run in.

I look at the mess in the kitchen and think about cleaning it.

But eat a snackie instead. Greek yogurt, my new love.

And then I indulge in some blog surfing. If I stall long enough maybe Taber will finish his run and I won't have to clean the kitchen by myself.

What do you know? My plan works perfectly and Taber finishes just as I'm finishing reading my blogs. We clean the kitchen together. Go teamwork!

It's 10:40pm, but I take some time to work on the talk I'm giving on Mother's day in church. Taber helps me brainstorm some ideas, We get a good outline going.

It's creeping up on midnight. We're just about to hit the sack when this little guy wakes up and he ain't happy

Maybe it's gas. Pump those little legs! He toots, but keeps crying. He sounds a little congested.

Suck out the nose. He definitely doesn't like that.

How bout the mirror? That does the trick. Now he's happy. Feed him, change him, put him back to bed.

Past midnight now. Technically a new day. Mommy is tired, Daddy is tired. Doggy is tired. Hopefully we'll get a few hours of sleep before we have to do it all over again. No wonder all I wanted for Mother's day was a nap : )

A day in my life part 2-Taking on the afternoon

Okay, small disclaimer from my morning post: DID NOT mean to make anyone feel lazy!! Wednesdays are my crazy days because both girls are in preschool and it's the day before my weightwatchers weigh in so I'm a little more productive and disciplined than normal! Believe me I have my fair share of down time (hello I'm blogging right now in the afternoon!) So yeah, don't have guilt people, okay? good : )

On to the afternoon:

Load Brinley from teacher's car to my car. Throw some cheese sticks at the kids and head to Wal-mart.

Cam falls asleep in the car. sweet little guy.

Cheese sticks weren't enough. Girls want to go to "old McDonald's"

Chicken nuggets are semi-nutritious right?

The delicious aroma of french fries almost tempts me to indulge, but I'm armed with a Larabar, take that old McDonalds!

We get to Wal-mart and it's pouring rain. I REALLY don't want to drag all three kids out in the rain to run in and pick up my photo cards that are already paid for. Not worth 15 minutes of loading and unloading for a 4 minute errand. Are a 5 and almost 3 year old big enough to leave alone in the car for 4 minutes?

I decide they are.

Cam and I brave the rain to go get our picture cards.

All that work for 4 little pictures. I hope our mom's love their cards!

We finally get back home. Brinley wants to in through the front door instead of the garage. I say fine, just don't step in the puddle. um, yeah...

Takes 10 minutes to finally get her in the house. Puddles distracted her, sidewalk chalk distracted her. She is easily distracted.

Chalk hand. Thank goodness for soap and wipies.

Teya walks in the house to discover that Monty has chewed up her stuffed puppy. If you're thinking about getting a pet, look at those sad eyes and think long and hard before you do it. They can be little devils sometimes.

"Mom I have to go potty!" Nice! She's starting to tell me now!

Teya seems to have cheered up now that she's riding her bike around the house. Yep, I let my kid ride her bike in the house. I choose my battles ok?

Time to feed little Cam. He will only nurse in a quiet room these days. little stinker!

What were the girls up to while I fed the babe?

Coloring for Teya

And cutting for Brinley.

She wanted to try out her new scissor skills she worked on in preschool (don't worry, those are safety scissors)

2pm a realtor shows up with a client for a house showing. blah!

Take the kids to the family room to get out of the way

And we spend an hour watching the Biggest Loser together. Teya loves that show and gets so mad if I delete it from the DVR before she's watched it.

Cam is sick of the Biggest Loser and wants to take a nap.

Night night Cam.

Brinley saw me taking pics with Cam and wanted me to take some with her. She's so fun.

Lunch, finally. Mommy is always the last the eat.

Barely finish eating and Brinley says, "Mom I need to go poo poo"

"Do you need to go or did you already go? (I think I know the answer)

"um, I already go, but mom! I telled you! Are you happy?"

*sigh* potty training.

Leave Teya and Cam with PBS kids to take care of Brinley.

While in the bathroom I'm reminded I need to do this. Boo!

Check on Teya and Cam, still doing good.

3:45, back up arrives! Introducing my "mother's helper" I pay her to come on Wednesday afternoons to play with the kids so I can be productive and stuff.

Oops!...couldn't resist : )

Back on track. Cam helps me fold laundry while the girls play with Ali.

afternoon snack. Good thing I buy these in bulk.

Put Cam down and check on the girls. They're making mother's day cards with Ali. So sweet.

More laundry

And since I have back up I decide to take a minute and sew the button on Taber's pants that he's been asking me to do for the last 3 weeks. I'm such a good wife. ; )

More snackies. Told you I was an almond junkie.

Girls show me their cards, they're so proud of them

Cam wakes up mad.

Super mad

Spend over 30 minutes rocking and trying to soothe him. Poor guy.

Cam is calm, back to laundry

2nd load I've folded today! Mother's helpers rule!

Almost dinner time! Shoot, didn't plan anything. Um...how bout pancakes?

6:30pm, more relief has come! Always so happy when this guy comes home.

Next up: dinner, bedtime insanity, and evening routine. Sorry if I'm boring you to death but I think it will be really fun to have this to look back on someday : )