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A Day in My Life on Maternity Leave

Posted on July 25, 2023July 24, 2023 by Lauren Lane

What do you do all day while you’re on leave?! Here’s a little peak into a typical day on maternity leave for me.

I woke up early to get an at-home bar workout in before the kids were up.

Put a pork butt in the crockpot to make carnitas for dinner that evening…

At 7am, I wake up Aidan and feed him while the little boys get up and eat breakfast with Nathan.

FEED ME, MOM! Says Aidan.

And Jonathan usually comes in to say hi to me when he wakes up each morning while I feed Aidan.

After Aidan’s first feeding is done, I check in on the boys downstairs eating breakfast.

And then when they finish breakfast, they help unload the dishwasher.

Then it’s time to head upstairs and get dressed and brush their teeth for school. When they’re dressed and responsibilities are done, they get some iPad time waiting for Nathan to finish getting ready for work and to drop them off at daycare.

After the big boys leave, Aidan and I have tummy time and play time before his first nap of the day.

Hates tummy time. Loves being on his back time…

At 8:30, he lays down for his first nap, and I work through some items on my to-do list.

This particular morning included ordering groceries for pick-up later in the day.

Then making a batch of elderberry syrup, which the boys have every morning with breakfast as an immunity boost.

And installing/unpacking items I had ordered from Amazon Prime day…like these water leak detection alarms…

Aidan’s up from nap at 10 and ready to be fed again.

He does some playing on his playmat, while I fold laundry…

I heat up some lunch for myself, and eat while playing with Aidan.

And round out my meal with some lactation cookies…because I care deeply for Aidan’s milk supply. :). And they’re just tasty.

Check in on my big kids at school through their daycare app to see what they’ve been up to today.

I try to get out of the house with Aidan at least once a day. He does better with this if it’s during one of his nap times, so we head out for his second nap of the day to run some errands. This particular day, I was shopping for some organization bins from Home Goods, which shockingly already had Halloween decor out…

And then I was on the hunt for bubble wands as party favors for Jonathan’s upcoming birthday party.

Then it was home and time for another Aidan feeding! After he ate, I worked on organizing our freezer with my new bins

Chopped up some vegetables I was using for dinner that evening, and then hopped in the shower for a quick rinse before going to pick up the boys from daycare with baby Aidan.

Did one last check on pictures from the boys’ school day…

Then Aidan and I headed to pick up the boys from school. When we got back home, I made the last of the items we needed for dinner that night…

We ate dinner together as a family, and then moved on to baths for the boys. I do Aidan’s bath while Nathan handles bath for the big boys.

One last feeding for Aidan for the day…

Then he goes down for night-night. And I put Jonathan and Harrison down for bed with a story and prayer.

After the boys go down, I watched a little TV and then turned in myself and went to bed at 9:00.

A Day in the Life of Maternity Leave

Posted on December 16, 2020December 14, 2020 by Lauren Lane

I wanted to document one of our typical days during maternity leave. I had intended to do this while Harrison was still home, and then I realized that was too tall of a task. Jonathan was still getting into a routine, and Harrison was like a small hurricane keeping me on my toes every day. So I chose last Wednesday to document a very normal day of maternity leave.

5:03 Wake up time if I’m working out before the boys are up!

5:33 am – Bar Method workout in my living room with spaghetti sauce jars as weights

A Typical Day During COVID-19 Quarantine

Posted on April 7, 2020April 6, 2020 by Lauren Lane

I’ve done a couple of typical day posts over the past year. You can go back and read them HERE and HERE. With the changes that quarantine has brought, though, I wanted to document this very different period of our lives. Nathan and I are both working full-time jobs at home, and we have Harrison here as well. It’s made for quite the change in our typical routine, so last Monday, I decided to document our full day from wake up to go to sleep. Here’s how we’re making quarantine work so far…

I still get up at 4:50 in the morning, and get a work out in before the rest of the house is up and moving.

I walk all the way to our living room to do my work out. 🙂

A Day in the Life {Jan 2020}

Posted on January 22, 2020January 17, 2020 by Lauren Lane

I love getting a peak into what family’s lives look like on a day to day basis. I marked a couple Thursdays ago in my calendar to document my day from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed. I’ve done one other day in the life last July HERE.

It was a totally ordinary day for us in the Lane house. I usually start my weekdays early…

Up to get ready to go to my workout class at the Bar Method.

Let’s Look At…A Typical Day

Posted on July 10, 2019July 25, 2019 by Lauren Lane

Typical day posts are some of my absolute favorites. I love getting the peak into what life looks like for other families. This is our first typical day post – and I was a little nervous that I would forget mid way through the day to take pictures. Luckily, we made it through the whole day – with full documentation. Not an easy task!

Today I’m linking up with Mix and Match Mama and A Little Bit of Everything to share what a Typical Day looks like in our house!

Our weekdays generally look like controlled chaos. Two adults, and one baby – not to mention, there’s a dog that requires some love and attention too. Here we go!