One of the main reasons that I keep this blog is because I want to have a record my kids’ lives. Memories from their childhood recorded here so we can go and look through and have reminders of what our life was like. So today I came up with an idea. I’m starting this post at 7:30am and will add paragraphs throughout the day about what goes on. I’ve thought of doing this before, but never thought I’d get a ‘typical’ day…because every day is so different…but I’ve realized that different IS typical. This may be a really boring post for most of you. Although you never know. It might be an interesting day!

I woke up this morning at about 5:15am. Don’t know why, but I was wide awake. Josh got up around then to get ready to leave for men’s fraternity at church and I laid in bed for another hour, thinking about different things until 6:30 when I got up to get the boys up for school. Picked out their clothes (it’s supposed to be an unusually warm end of September day here at 94 today). Got them ready- they decided in the 3 minutes from when the bus passed our house the first time, that they’d prefer to have cold lunch instead of hot. So we threw in a couple lunchables and some cookies for them to take to school and rushed out to the bus. The bus driver was a substitute today. He waved hello to me as the boys got on the bus. I went back into the house and looked at myself in the mirror to find that I still had messy bed hair and makeup smeared under my eyes. Nice. Oh well. Grabbed a piece of toast and some coffee and checked facebook/blogs and began to write this. Now I’m going to stop so I can get some bible reading done before the girls get up. (I’m trying to memorize the entire book of Colossians…I’ve been slacking in spending time doing that and need to work on it some more.)

Okay, it’s now 10am. I got my bible reading done, and another couple verses added to my memorization. Then I went upstairs, gathered up all our laundry and took the sheets off the bed (it’s Tuesday so it’s bedroom cleaning day), tidied the room and came downstairs to start a load of laundry. Then I worked out (Hip Hop Abs) and then went to take a shower. Finished my shower, dressed and then went to let the girls out of their room. When I opened the door, I found their ceiling light hanging from the cord in the ceiling. It’s a chandelier…And now it’s like 3 feet from the floor. Nice. I washed out some sippy cups for the girls and got their morning cocoa. They each get 2 cups of cocoa in the morning…but don’t worry, it’s very watered down. And then I put on a ‘show’ for the girls. It’s our normal morning routine. Today they wanted to watch “Buzz Light”. While they watch the show I’m changing laundry, cleaning up from the remainders of dinner last night, dumping poop from the potty chair into the toilet, stopping the girls from eating spoonfuls of sugar and from dumping out bottles and bottles of spices onto the counter.

At 10:15 Kynden begins throwing a temper tantrum which begins because of cereal and continues because of underwear. It lasts for a full 8 minutes before I help her find a pair of underwear that is acceptable to her. She wanted ones with bugs on them.

Alright. It’s now almost 3:30. Nothing really all that eventful happened, but here goes anyway. I’ve folded about 4 loads of laundry while the girls watched their show…Oh and I talked on the phone for about 30 min. And I figured out where to put the “new” armoire that we got last night…it’s going to go in the girls’ room…and I started organizing their clothes in the drawers of the armoire. The girls ate lunch about 12:30 and then we went outside to play for about an hour between 1-2. At about 2 I came in and put another load of laundry in the wash and start getting the girls ready for nap time. But then I realized that the chandelier was still hanging 3 ft from the floor, so I called Josh in to help me with that. It’s fabulous having a husband who works from home! He just took it off because whatever part kept the light attached to the ceiling had broken off and we might just need to get a new light. Bummer. So then I got the girls’ milk and put them down while I read a book in their room. It took about an hour.

So now it is about a quarter after 6. Let’s see…shortly after my last paragraph, my mom came by. She is leaving tomorrow morning to go to Kansas for my cousin’s wedding and wanted to see everyone and say goodbye. She stayed for a bit, helped me fold some laundry and just sort of visited for a while. The boys came home from school while she was here and the girls woke up from their nap. Except for Ellyanna, who slept longer than the other two…she was the last one to fall asleep. Really not much to report. At 5 Josh got off work and I made dinner for everyone. In just a few minutes, I will be leaving the house for the evening to go and meet with Natalie. She’s a pretty cool 18 year old from church that I’ve been meeting with to watch the Peasant Princess series. Not sure when I’ll be home, but I won’t add any more for today.

So now you know! A typical day! A pretty boring and unevenful one at that.