So, spent a week and a half with Strep Throat....yuck!
I decided that since I do get asked A LOT about when I find the time to work out, I thought I should go ahead and post a run-down of my usual day so y'all can see how it is that I get anything done.
First, I wake up at 6am sharp, but I don't get out of bed. Instead, I bring the baby over to me and nurse him for about 30 minutes. Then I start my FLYLADY morning routine...IT WORKS! Then, I change baby H and dress him and wake up my older son to get ready for school. While DS is getting ready, I get dressed in my workout gear. More often than not, baby H is fussing and/or crying the entire time...I just put up with it.
I get DS off to school and by the time I get back, DD is up and asking for food. She gets a light breakfast because she doesn't eat much until lunch time. Then I set her up with Dora on Netflix and give baby H a few graham crackers in his bouncer. Then I plug my ear buds into my cell and start my podrunner. As of late, I've been carrying 10lbs of extra weight in the form of 2-5lb hand weights. I do my podrunner in my house. Yep, I walk and jog on a little track from my front door, around my kitchen table, back into the hall, and back to the front door. The good thing about using podrunner is that it has a rhythm. So long as you're keeping the beat by moving around, you're good. Sometimes, DD wants milk, so I march sort-of in place while I pour a sippy cup of milk. But she is usually already set-up with one and is ordered to stay on the couch and out of the way. The workout happens to be about the same length as an episode of any kid's show, like Dora, so I'm finished by the time her show is over.
It's now about 9:30am, sometimes 10am. It's time for DD to get dressed and start her pre-K pages. She does them in English and Spanish, so I alternate days. Mon, Wed, Fri in English; Tues, Thurs in Spanish. I usually have to nurse baby H again and put him down for a nap by about 11am.
DD is finished by lunchtime (12pm), so I give her a PB&J and juice or milk. When she finishes lunch, she's ready to crash, so I let her watch Sesame Street until she falls asleep on the couch. Then, I try to get laundry folded as fast as I can. Between two little kids, you might get 20 minutes where they're both asleep at the same time and that's action time!!!!
Baby H gets up from his nap at about 12:30pm, I wake up DH for his second-shift job. We spend a little time playing with the kids, and he gets ready, while I help him by finding everything he put down, but couldn't remember where he left it. (Of course, I've been telling him for 9 years to put it all in one spot, but he has his ways) By 2pm, he's off to work, I give the kids a snack and load up the dishwasher to keep the sink clear. I realize that this is futile with little kids who need a new cup every 10 minutes, but you know...) I don't run it because we conserve electricity from 12pm-7pm. I also put my dinner in the crockpot on high so that's it's ready by 6:30pm. At 3pm, I pack up all the kids and pick-up DS from school, check the mail, go by the library if needed, pick up any groceries and extras I forgot to get the last time I was at the store two days ago. I head home and it's nearly 5:30pm. I have the kids go out to play, I nurse baby H again because he's starving. At 6pm, I make yet another futile attempt to clean up the kitchen before dinner. (There is always a debris field of toys, that's why I ALWAYS wear shoes in the house...I'm not dummy!) I wipe down the table and get plates ready and call the kids in to dinner by 7pm. (baby H seems to make everything take 30minutes longer) by 7:30pm, I allow 30 minutes of TV or video games. 8pm is time to get ready for bed. Baths, jammies and teeth brushed by 8:30pm, I put the older 2 into bed, and nurse baby H again. If it should happen that both older kids are asleep or at least behaving, and baby H is down for the night (or the next hour) I take a shower/bubble bath depending on time constraints. Then I finish up cleaning the kitchen and loading the dishwasher. I start the dishwasher, put another load of laundry into wash. I watch TV and eat some dinner. I start the laundry in the dryer, and go to bed.
I can't recommend FLYLADY routines more...they are great, they give a little to-do list of things that should be done, and if you do them, you'll notice you have a bit more time on your hands for other things. (like blogging! ) I'm usually in bed by 12am, but I'm almost never asleep until 2am. It's a bummer, but that's life. I suffer mild insomnia. I cannot get to sleep before 2am unless I am very ill, in which case, my sleep pattern is all thrown off anyway.
Well, there's a day in the life....I wish I were more disciplined and kept my house cleaner and neater, but I'm starting to learn that when you have kids, you just collect "stuff"...toys, big, small and tiny. And the clothes!! why do kids have mountains of clothes, no matter how often you cull it and give it all away?? it's like the Bermuda Boomerang! You get rid of it, but then it's back again!
Okay, being that it's Sunday, and once again, I skipped Mass,( bad mommy!) I should make up for my having eaten meat on a Friday by donating a crap-ton of winter clothes to the clothing bank at our church. We live in Arizona for God's sake, we don't' need that many sweaters and coats! My ambition is to get rid of all of the extras, which I love but honestly couldn't wear in the 2.3 months that I might actually need a sweater.
We'll see!
btw, check my weight-loss progress here.
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