A true typical day in January 2024 should show one kid home sick, one kid home because it is yet another snow day or school holiday, and me trying to frantically fit in all of work and home things in between juggling kids at home. Somehow, this random day that I picked to document was our FIRST DAY in a week (and practically all of January) with all children at their respective “schools.”
I woke up early to get my workout at Bar Method in before the kids got up…
As soon as I get home, I get out milk for the big boys and go feed Aidan. Jonathan is always my first kid up.
Then after wrestling a nine month old to get a new diaper on and get changed, it’s time to herd cats getting big J and Harrison dressed and ready.
Happy helper!
Then it’s downstairs for breakfast for the boys!
After breakfast, I do little kid drop off at daycare, and then call my mom on the way home.
At home, I grabbed a cup of coffee, flipped on my work computer, and grabbed the boys’ laundry. It was boys laundry day.
I sorted dirty clothes while doing a work call. Then got some work done on my computer while the first load started.
This morning I had a long overdue haircut…
Finally feeling more put together 🙂
Back at work – fold a load of clothes while on another call and pumping…
Then very non exciting work happened…but I listened to part of this book while I worked on mindless tasks
Grabbed a protein bar as interim sustenance…
More work…then a pump break and bottle prep…
Followed by elementary school snack prep for the next day and dinner prep…This little tool has saved me so much time chopping vegetables. Highly recommend.
Another little snack to tide me over until dinner…
Around 5, I took a quick shower, put the kids’ clean clothes away, and was ready to go do pick-ups. I had a couple of new clothes to try on…
I usually pick up Harrison from school in the evenings.
Once we got home…
It was time to start dinner. Harrison wanted to help make dinner this evening.
Chaos…I mean the little boys arrive home around 5:30 or so, and then we sat down to eat as a family.
A family favorite, the ever popular TACOS.
After dinner, I clean up the leftovers and load the dishwasher while the boys play. Then I’m in charge of baby Aidan’s bedtime.
Bath & snuggled up in his towel!
One last bottle, and he’s ready for bed!
Then it was Jonathan’s turn to go down for bed, and finally Harrison…
He chose the Chiefs book to read this night because his dad had refused to read it the night before…
After the boys are down, I usually make myself a treat or a cup of tea. This night I picked hot chocolate…
And I watch a little TV or read before it’s time for bed!
I read this day back, and it sounds exhausting. Because it is so tiring. It is a constant pace of doing to make it to the next marker in the day. To breakfast, to kids out the door, to bath. I find myself wiped by the end of most days. The thing I long for most these days is more time to do things for me. Things I’m passionate about.
But reading this back also made me remember how much I love this life. This life with these little humans that’s so loud, demanding and chaotic. It is magical. And in the scheme of things, so fast.
Just the other day Harrison showered himself and got himself ready for bed. And we did nooothing. And that was both thrilling and sad. Another end and a clear sign of my babies growing up. It’s hard to remember in the slog of the typical days that they’re growing up. And someday, we’ll bathe our babies for the last time. But that engine of time churns on. Ready or not. And I have a feeling when I’m old and gray and my babies have long since left the nest, I’ll be glad to go back and read this post of what life looked like when they still needed me for everything.
Thanks for sticking with me.
