Farm visit + a day in the life

Our Tuesday:

• 6 AM: I wake up and Zo is in the brown chair by the fireplace waiting for me. She's been up for a while...has a whole little party set up for me upstairs with stuffies and pretend snacks...I drink (real) coffee and hang out with her at the little party she made 
• 7 AM: Zo and I snuggle and watch a cartoon--two cute dogs on a mission, don't know the name of it and I hadn't seen it before but Sis had. Luke wakes and joins us
• 7:30 AM: Bagels (Zo's toasted with cream cheese, Luke's untoasted with butter) and scrambled eggs and milk for breakfast, take the dog out
• 7:45 AM: I wake Jeff and spend a little time with him, shower and dress, check in with work. Kids play "camping" upstairs (which involves making a terrible mess) and get themselves dressed
• 8:40 AM: Drive to see friends
• 9 AM: Lindsay hosts us and others (Thanks Lindsay!) and we check out her chickens and pigs and baby goats and farm equipment. I love these women and their kids. And I love Lindsay's place...it reminds me of where I grew up
• 10:45 AM: Head home, make lunch (ham and cheese and fruit and milk for kids, for me snacking on what they didn't eat and an artichoke that was in the fridge), make sure I'm prepped for my 12 PM presentation
• 11:30 AM: Get ready for preschool and drive Luke and Zo to school
• 12 PM: Naming presentation for me. Went great
• 1 PM: 1/2 hour to do my own thing (today read/watched some information about bullet journaling), walked the dog, did a little work. I'm trying really hard to have a 1/2 hour a day where I can do whatever I want and I'm pretty good at getting it
• 2:25 PM: Pick up kids
• 2:45 PM: Kids start their grandma time (today they read and played in the rainy afternoon splashing in puddles etc and cleaned up the mess upstairs, among other things), I work. Kids come in a few times for hugs and to give me artwork they've made...love their little interruptions... 
• 5:15 PM: Stuffed poblano peppers and guacamole and chips for dinner, I start prepping
• 5:45 PM: Jeff home, helps with dinner
• 6:15 PM: Kids and Jeff watch a cartoon snuggled up in our bed while dinner's in the oven, I work on some organizational stuff
• 6:45 PM: Dinner
• 7:30 PM: Bath, jammies, toothbrushing. (Luke has black pen spiderwebbed all over his body, he and Sis say their 3-year-old friend Charlotte who we were playing with yesterday drew on him while her mom and I were packing and not quite as attentive as normal, lol). I help with their (Luke and Zo's) washing and toothbrushing and also put away laundry
• 8 PM: A chapter of Winnie the Pooh, snuggled on the gray couch upstairs one kid on each side (the chapter where they are floating sticks down the river and Tigger bounced Eyeore into the river)
• 8:20 PM: Sis is "first tuck in" (we alternate) tonight (and really tired from getting up so early). I snuggle in bed with her, look at the full (or almost full) moon out her window, sing "Man in the Moon" and she's asleep by the end of it. I tuck in Luke, rocking him in the rocking chair and then scratch his back in bed, sing "Matthew," snuggle him until he's asleep, which I really like doing for both him and Sis, trying to get the nights of it that I can before they decide they're too grown up for it...
• 9 PM: Walk the dog and go out on the porch to say goodnight to my husband. Normally I'd sit out with him but my blanket out there is wet from this afternoon's rainstorm. Wash my face and change into PJs
• 9:15 PM: Blog 

And after this I'll probably watch a little TV ("Designated Survivor" maybe? I just finished season 1 of "The Crown" last night...oh my gosh so good...) and should be in bed by 11. 

Great day. Love our life.

XO