4/50 and a day in the life...
December 17, 2015:
6 AM: I'm up and working so there's time to snowboard later. :)
8 AM: Kids up. Mumpho Elphie (their Elf on the Shelf) is the first thing they look for...and..."Look, Mommy, he's in the same place! He hasn't moved!" And while I'm trying to think of a cover story (eg, "he really likes that spot! He came back to it!"), they come up with their own: "We didn't tell him about things we wanted yesterday," Luke says. "So he didn't need to go see Santa. We'll tell him about some thing today."
8:15 AM: Kids gently touch Christmas tree ornaments, I make breakfast: bagels, cream cheese, grapes, juice. Juice gets spilled first by Zo then by Luke and cleaned up. I walk the dog in 6 inches of new powder. Kids watch cartoons ("Blaze").
9:15 AM: Kids watch the snowplow make their snow mountain even bigger. Zo tells Mumpho Elphie she wants "a ballet dress with pink stripes for me and for Lambie. And another chocolate Santa please."
9:30 AM: Kids get dressed.
10 AM: Play in the snow, including making a sled run on the man-made snow mountain that continues to grow in our front yard:
11 AM: Getting warm by the fire, lunch (I didn't write it down and I have no idea what I made the kids for lunch yesterday, lol), housework. Play time with boxes and bubble wrap (those 2 items will keep the kids entertained longer than anything else).
12:30 PM: I make dinner (chili in the crock pot), kids play hide and seek.
1 PM: Kids play upstairs, I do a conference call.
1:30 PM: Dog walked, stories for the kids, kids put down for nap. (Zo sleeps, Luke doesn't.)
2 PM: Grandma takes over with the kids and I go snowboarding:
4:30 PM: Groceries and a beautiful sunset:
5 PM: Play with the kids...what we play in their words: "The pet baby whales are having a birthday party!" (They often refer to themselves as pet baby whales, I have no idea where it came from.) "Mommy, let's meditate!" (That didn't go too smoothly.) "Your bed is a dance floor!"
6 PM: Kids get letters and stickers (smiley faces, bears) from Grammy in the mail. I finish dinner while kids play "pirates" and then "pillow fight," which involves each holding a couch pillow to their chest and then running into each other from a distance, giggling hysterically, especially when one or both of them ends up knocked down.
6:45 PM: Daddy's home and plays pillow fight and forklift with the kids.
7 PM: Dinner--chili and salad and bread (kids get piles of individual salad ingredients minus the lettuce instead of salad). Luke gets sent to his room for playing with his food and in trouble again for throwing books down the stairs. Zo shows off her dance moves for us.
8 PM: Zo picks out her outfit for the next day, kids take individual baths and play "Zoo," which involves the one out of the bath coming by to take a look at the other kid, who is a zoo animal in the bath.
8:45 PM: PJs and tooth brushing.
9:00 PM: Short cartoon and goodnight to Grandma and Daddy.
9:15 PM: Short story for each kid, warm Duckie for Luke, a chat about what tomorrow's plans are, bedtime.
9:30 PM: My husband and I start our Christmas wrapping.
11 PM: A small whiskey for me and "Stitchers" on TV. (I fell asleep before it was finished.)
What joy our days are filled with...
XOXO
