I realized the other day that the only days I've ever done this have been Monday, and those are my least favorite day because it's my cleaning day. So here's a Friday, although it's not terribly exciting either.
1:15 AM- Adelia wakes up and screams bloody murder for 20 minutes. Then Aaron gets up with her and puts her back to bed. (It was his turn, since I'd had all the kids all by myself the day and night before because we were in Hooper.)
4:00 AM- Lincoln falls out of bed and starts crying very loudly. (I'm sure our upstairs neighbors love us right about now) It wakes up Ivan, and I think scares him, because he starts screaming too. I go in and put Lincoln back in bed (he's on the bottom bunk, so the fall could not have been that bad), and while I'm wiping his tears he tells me, "Mom, I fell out of bed and my blanket just tumbled down with me." Then I crawl around in the dark looking for Ivan's binky and rabbit. I hand them back to him and tuck him back in. I go back to bed.
7:00- Adelia is up. Aaron tells me to go get in the shower and he'll get her. I shower and get dressed. Somewhere while I was in the shower Linc gets up. Aaron showers, Lincoln eats breakfast. We have family prayer and Aaron leaves for work. He gets the car today because I took it to Hooper yesterday.
8:00- Ivan gets up and I fix he and I some scrambled eggs (because we are out of cow milk for me to eat cereal with and Ivan likes eggs better than cereal anyway) with almond milk mixed in. My mom made the almond milk for him yesterday while we were up there because I forgot to bring his rice milk. I think almond milk is better than rice milk. Just my opinion though. After that, I set up a bag ball game for the boys. We gathered up all the balls they own and put them in a laundry basket. Then I took a paper grocery bag and cut the bottom our of it and taped it to the floor like a tunnel and showed them how to roll the balls through it. Then I leave them to it.
8:30- I dress Adelia and change her diaper. Then I do my hair and brush my teeth and the boys teeth. I take one look outside at the inches of cold looking snow, and give the boys the option of having a pajama day. They decide to stay in their jammies all day.
9:00- The boys want to do play dough, so I clear off the kitchen table and get the play dough out.
9:30- Adi is tired. I make her a bottle, take her to her room and feed her. Then I rock her, walk with her, sing to her, and lay her down to sleep.
9:47- We have no food in our house. I realize that if I don't make bread today we are not going to have anything to eat for lunch. I get out the wheat grinder, and the 5 gallon bucket with wheat in it. I grind some wheat.
10:04- Pull out the new bread recipe my mom gave me, that I really want to try. My current recipe seems to leave the bread really dense, even though it tastes good. This recipe is supposed to be fluffy. I take the flour out of the wheat grinder, and put the grinder away and get out my bosch mixer. (There is not room on my counter for both to be out at once.)
10:20- Change a nasty poopy diaper of Ivan's.
10:27- Ivan is done with the play dough. He gets out some cookie sheets and cake pans to play with. Linc is still happily doing play dough. He's pretending to make spaghetti. I turn on a Jim Wiess CD. He is a great story teller, and we have a lot of his CDs that have kids stories on them. This particular one has Goldie Locks and the Three Bears, Rumpelstiltskin, and a few others. I mix the dry ingredients in the mixer and add the hot water and mix again. This is a technique I've never done before called sponging. I unload the dishwasher while I wait 10-15 minutes for the sponge to rise.
10:54- My dough is mixing...the kids are done with play dough and playing together in the living room. I clean up the play dough, wipe the counters and the table. The I shape the bread loaves.
11:06- Put loaves into pans and then into oven to rise, and wipe off the table again.
11:11- Call Mom to ask how long to let the loaves rise. She has to call me back in a minute.
11:15- I tell Lincoln not to use the Bumbo to climb on the computer desk. He does it anyway, slips and falls and gets hurt. This is one of the most frustrating things to me, when I tell them not to do something because it will hurt them, and then they do it anyway and get hurt. I wonder if Heavenly Father feels like that all the time. Anyways, I won't pick Lincoln up, and he gets really mad and has a compete melt down. During the melt down, Ivan touches one of Linc's dinosaurs, and Linc freaks out even more and tries squeezing Ivan really hard. I send Linc to his bedroom.
11:18- Ivan and I play a quick game of what can we put in the paper sack. Basically, you take a paper grocery sack and leave it open in the middle of the floor. Then you put whatever you can find inside. Usually after it's full, my role in the game is over. Ivan will either unload the back right away, or he'll wait and stumble upon the full bag a little while later...either way, he enjoys rediscovering all the things we put inside the bag. It keeps him busy for a good 20 minutes. This time he chooses to leave it for later. I go to the kitchen and start to clean it. Ivan brings in his stacking and sorting balls and is playing with those.
11:22- Lincoln has calmed down and he comes out of his room. He play nicely on the floor with Ivan.
11:33- I slice an apple for the kids to snack on, since we can't eat lunch until the bread is done.
11:35- Mom has not called me back yet, so I check on the bread to see how it's rising. WOW!! It's HUGE. It's probably risen more than it should have. I am so surprised how fast it rose, it's only been a half hour. I set the temperature on the oven and start baking the bread.
11:59- Aaron calls. We talk for a few minutes.
12:06- Back to the kitchen, dishes are done, counters are wiped off, all I need to do is sweep and then make lunch. On second thought, I'll wait until after lunch to sweep. :) I check on the bread. Two minutes left, I can't wait!
12:10- Pull bread out and slice off a piece and butter it and eat. YUM!
12:13- Help boys build a fort out of couch cushions, then go make lunch.
12:23- Lunch is served. Ivan and I are having PB&J on fresh bread. Linc gets the sloppy joe he didn't even touch at dinner last night.
12:30- Ivan is playing with what's left of his food, that's how I know when he's done eating. I wash him up, leave Linc eating, and go put him down for a nap. We read Snuggle Puppy and sing I am a Child of God, I Have a Family Here on Earth, Give Said the Little Stream, and Whenever I Hear the Song of a Bird. I kiss him, give him bink and rabbit, tuck him under his blanket, and leave the room.
12:41- Linc is done with his lunch. I tell him I'm going to watch a Conference talk on LDS.org, and give him the option of watching with me or playing quietly. He chooses to sit on my lap and watch. I decide to watch Elder Uchtdorf's talk on What Matters Most.
1:05- Done watching. What a good talk. I've reread it a few time since Conference, and every time the idea that we need to slow down and simplify and work on 4 specific relationships always hits me pretty hard, and I rededicate myself to doing those things. Linc wants to do his dinosaur puzzle. I tell him to pick up his toys in the living room first and then we'll do his puzzle. He starts working on that.
1:10- Adelia wakes up. She had a LONG NAP! Holy cow. Must be because she pratically hasn't sleep in 3 days. Silly girl. I make her a bottle and feed her.
1:20- Change Adi's diaper and help Lincoln with his puzzle. I try to just talk him through it to help him stay interested ad focused, but so that he is actually doing it by himself. He's having a hard time grasping the idea of stright edge pieces vs. not straight edge pieces. But he's got corner pieces down pat.
1:51- We are done with the puzzle after putting it together three times. Time to feed Adi her pears. Lincoln does some pages out of his preschool book while I'm feeding Adelia. That way I can help him too.
2:16- Adi is done with her pears, she goes in the jumpy seat while I sweep the kitchen and talk Lincoln through his pages. Today he does the color black, and one with directions to color with lots of different colors. He does really well with both pagess.
2:23- Time for a treat! We each have a few peanut M&Ms, and then I slice Lincoln and I a piece of bread.
2:33- Lincoln gets in trouble for coloring with black marker on the kitchen chair. Luckily its washable marker. I send him to time out and set the timer for five minutes. He knows better. I work on putting the bread stuff away.
2:36- Take Adi out of her seat, and play with her on a blanket in the living room. Then I check my email, Facebook, and Goodreads.
2:45- Adi not happy. I try feeding her some more of her bottle. She's not interested. She wants to be virtical. I put her in her chair where she can see Lincoln building a dinosaur cave out of couch cushions while talking to himself. This makes her happy. I sit down for a minute and try to read Jesus the Christ, since I have a goal to finish it this year. I get about two paragraphs in...
2:55- Adi is tired. I put her down to bed.
3:05- Aaron called and said that Cherryl had some questions about the carpet cleaning company the apartment complex has used in the past. I leave Linc in the living room playing with his train set, and go up to her place. I talk to her for a bit, then we go out to the shed so I can show her where the spackle for patching holes in the walls is.
3:25- Back home, Linc is still playing trains. Misty comes to the door to see if we want to go play next door.
3:30- Linc and I go over to Misty's.
3:55- I come back to check on sleeping kids. Adelia is up, so I get her out of bed, and we are loud and wake up Ivan. The three of us go back over to Misty's.
4:30- I tell the boys it's time to help clean up the toys, so we can go home and get dinner started.
4:35- Change Adelia's horendously smelly diaper.
4:40- Take chicken out of the freezer to thaw in the microwave, I check my phone messages, since my battery was dead my phone has been charging all day and I haven't had it with me to answer it. Not that that many people every call or text me :) But I did have a message from my mom who finally called me back. Then I read this week's Sentinel article, and think that I need to get going on mine if I want it done by the time I have to turn it in next week.
4:52- Lincoln is whining about his tent tipping over. The chicken is done, so I go into the kitchen to start the Chicken Fajita Pizza.
4:58- Linc is throwing a fit because Ivan broke the train track he'd made. I got get Ivan the Little People train out of their bedroom for Ivan to play with while Lincoln plays with the wooden one, so they still feel like they're playing together, but seperately enough to keep the peace. Back to making dinner.
5:10- Adelia is no longer happy in her jumpy chair. This means I take her out and hold her while trying to cook dinner one handed.
5:15- Aaron is home, yay! A little earlier than expected. I love those days.
5:26- Pizza is in the oven and ready to bake.
5:40- Dinner is served. We fight with Lincoln the entire meal to eat his pizza, which he won't touch. During the fight, our neighbor Cali comes over and asks to use out apple slicer, since hers is packed away because they are moving tomorrow :( While slicing the apple, Linc tells her all about what we're having for dinner and how delicious it is, and how he's going to eat all of it. That little worm (Lincoln, not Cali)...I guess we should have people come over more often during dinner so Lincoln will show off to them by eating, because we can't seem to get him to otherwise.
6:00- After dinner we load everyone up into the van and go to Home Depot to buy a 4x4 for a craft I'm making. The guy at the store was awesome and let us find a piece in the stack that was bent and no good as a whole piece of wood, then he cut off a piece of it for us and gave it to us as scrap for 50 cents. Cool. More on my craft some other day.
6:45- We are home. We get the boys ready for bed, give Adi a bottle and put her to bed.
7:00- Aaron is having "special story-time" with the boys. Which means they are all three on Ivan's top bunk reading stories. When I'm done putting Adelia down, I go in the living room and have a few blissful quiet minutes to myself.
7:30- I join in on the end of "special story-time" for the last story, Snuggle Puppy, and for family prayer. I have a very difficult time getting myself off of the top bunk in one piece. We sing a few songs to the boys, tuck them in and kiss them good night.
7:40- Aaron tries the bread I made today and is very impressed. I dish us up some ice cream, but Aaron doesn't want any so I eat it all by myself. Yup. Aaron gets on the computer and pays the phone bill while I eat ice cream. Then we work together on our blog book. We made an awesome collage page with the pictures of Ivan's birthday. I love how it turned out.
9:20- Aaron is all blog-booked out, so we play two player Tetris on the internet. Aaron wins, but doesn't slaughter me. Then we watch some really funny videos of Ivan dancing in the mirror when he thought no one was watching. Love that kid.
10:22- We get ready for and go to bed!
