Day in the life: March 1, 2021

6 AM: Work, tea

6:15: Wake kids, get dressed, make breakfast and lunch to take to school, do Zoe’s hair

7:15: Drive to school, hug kids at crosswalk

7:40: Surf with Jerica @ Breakwall

9:45: Shower

10:00: Plan day

10:15: Work

10:30: Unexpected Zoom call with wet hair that I put in a bun and hoped no one noticed

11:00: Eat leftover soup, Jeff goes to work

11:30: Call with Beebs

1:00: Notes to stuffies (per Zo’s request), make beds

1:15: Work

1:50: School pick-up

2:15: Kracken (a game that’s me chasing kids as a giant octopus), homework including 2-column division, snack, dishes, laundry, talent show movie upload, chess app for chess with Papa

4:00: Screens for kids, work for me

5:00: Manage a kid fight, kid showers, mama dress up (the pic above is me dressed by the kids in the “crazy” theme)

6:30: Takeout dinner with Daddy, Wild Chile (National Geographic nature show we’ve been watching)

7:15: Teeth, chapter in our book (Winterborne House), daily poem, stuffie of the night is given to me by Zo to spend the night downstairs (she packs an imaginary backpack with the things I used to pack for her when she went to visit Grammy and Papa, eg a pic of mama, a snack, a special blanket), sleep tuck-ins (I lay with each kid until they fall asleep; we’re only doing sleep tuck-ins once or twice a week these days so it’s special for the kids when they get it)

8:45: Work check-in, prep for morning

9:00: A drink and hang out and talk on the porch with Jeff

10:00: Bed

I feel the need to mention that not all our days look like this…some days I work a lot more, weekends have a different rhythm. But I’m wanting to do “day in the life” again first of each month and whatever that particular day looks like is what it is…

XO