What did you do today?

Do you ever wonder what other people do during the day? You know, the people who don't work...stay at home moms....what do they do ALL DAY LONG??? I'm always curious to see how people like to spend their time. And I'm always asking myself "what did I do with my time BEFORE I had these rugrats?!" I must have seriously wasted a lot of time. I thought it would be cool to document what I do as a stay at home mom (aka professional caretaker...that sounds more like my style...).

Every single freaking morning I wake up at 7. I'm not gonna lie, I hate it. I am not a morning person. Emerald is the first to wake up with knocking on her door (we put child lock on her door handle on the INSIDE...so she can't get out...it's brilliant, I know). Today when I opened her door to let her out (sounds like I'm letting an animal out or something...), she started talking about how she was riding a tiny horse and went on the ferris wheel with Reese (her little friend). Sounds like she has some good dreams.

Emerald goes potty after that and then we both climb back into my bed and watch a movie (Dora, Tinker Bell, etc.). By about 745 we can hear Charlie jumping in his bed. I really need to get a video of him doing this. This boy can get some serious air. We go get Charlie and then we eat breakfast. Fruit Loops with a cup of milk. Same thing EVERY morning. After Emerald eats, she usually heads back to watch the rest of her movie and I jump in the shower while Charlie finishes his breakfast.

Then we all get dressed, Emerald plays and I put Charlie in his room to play. (They do not play together much...Emerald is mean and Charlie sits on her.) During this time I attempt to do the dishes...which usually takes me about 45 mins to do a 10 min job. I'm constantly helping with dressing up a doll or finding a different toy or picking out colors of crayons for Emerald to use.

Charlie takes a nap from 10-12 while I continue in my attempt to pick up the house. I try to do a load of laundry every day...yes, I said it....A LOAD EVERY DAY. It's a lot of laundry. I think I clean for a good hour or two until I take a break and start blog hopping, sending emails, doing homework and of course, Facebooking. (Is that a word?) We have lunch at noon once Char wakes up and then after lunch, it's time for Emerald to take a nap. I can get the most done while Emerald is asleep. And there has been a few days when I actually do stuff when she is sleeping, but I usually take that time to do whatever I want. Read, add to my list of things I need to do, more homework, meal planning, etc.

Charlie is so good to just play in his room quietly. Such an angel. A hefty angel. :) Emerald wakes up at about 330/4 and then it's time for Char to take his 2nd nap. Can't wait till they can take naps at the same time...I could get a lot done...or not. Once Emerald is up, we color or do a craft together. Then I start making dinner and try to entertain her at the same time. Not always successful. And at 5, Daddy comes home and Mommy leaves. Just kidding. That's only like once or twice or three times a week that I feel the need to leave the moment Jake comes home. :)

This is a typical "outline" of what my days are like. But this is only when Emerald doesn't have school. She now has preschool 3x a week for 3 hours...so that changes things a bit. I get more time during the day to run errands and do craft projects for me.

The strange thing is that as I write this down, I realize how much of NOTHINGNESS I do during my day. But yet during the day, I am always running around and always having something to do. I guess it's just hard to put in writing what exactly goes into my day-to-day schedule. Maybe I will actually keep track one day and see how productive I really am. That would be interesting. Or not interesting AT ALL.