Thankful Thursday: A Day In The Life Of

Alisha told me I need to do a day in the life of post last night. Basically it is a detailed run down of your day. Here goes.

12 am, get up put homemade yogurt in fridge.

5:30 wake up startled at new sound. The new coffee maker grinding beans.

Lay in bed until 6:15. Brian gets Lainey out of bed, I get dressed. I fix Lainey breakfast. Whole wheat pancakes, and oj. I make her lunch while she eats, leftover cous cous, blueberries, and homemade yogurt.

7:45 Ellis wakes up. (This is BIGTIME) sleeping in for him.

8:05 Leave to take Lainey to school.

8:30 Get home. Make Ellis breakfast. Toast, scrambled pastured eggs, homemade yogurt and oj. For me eggs, yogurt, and coffee. Clean kitchen, pick up downstairs, shower, do laundry, pack Ellis and I lunch. Him whole wheat bread, natural pb, and low sugar jelly, chips (still going through processed food), and dried fruit. Me larabar and dried fruit.

Leave house at 10:45 to go to the Red Cross and give blood. My iron was too low, come back next week. Okay....that was weird, I have never had low iron, and the two people before me were low too. I think the machine was broke.

Go to Lainey's school to observe since I can't give blood, and eat lunch while watching her eat lunch. Talk to the teacher, she is doing a GREAT job.

Pick Lainey up, she falls asleep, Ellis has school in one hour. Go get coffee for the first time in a month, only got 5.5 hrs of sleep last night. Park hang with Ellis in car, update planner, make appointments, arrange childcare for September football game trip.

1:00 drop Ellis off at school. Go home.

1:17 arrive home. Lay down for 15 minutes for a power nap, Lainey isn't going back to sleep. Do more laundry, clean upstairs bathrooms, wash kid's sheets, play some with sis, and answer peoples emails, fb messages, texts.

3:30 Leave to pick Ellis up from school. 4:00 pick up Ellis. Almost get into 2 accidents on the way home from crazy rush hour drivers. 4:25 get home, see neighbor, joke he needs to come mulch my landscaping, unload Lainey, Ellis, backpacks, and lunch boxes. Ellis is asleep on couch, Lainey playing in my silverware drawer. Clean out lunch boxes and wash dishes. Straighten down stairs. 5:00 call work, I don't have to go in. Start dinner prep which includes, washing and cutting potatoes, washing and snapping green beans, defrosting hamburger (grass fed farm raised), and thawing homemade whole grain dinner rolls. 5:30 meatloaf in oven, beans and potatoes cooking.

5:40 knock on door. My awesome neighbor had extra mulch, and mulched all of my front landscaping for me. 5:50 Brian pulls up to our nice neighbor doing our yard work.

6:05 eat dinner. Very good. All within a 45 mile radius of my house. Ellis wakes up and is super cranky. I run upstairs get some cute clothes on, brush my hair, and spray some perfume. Leave the house at 6:50 to go to a friends 31 party.

Arrive a little late, see my lovely friends. Buy a cute tote for farmer's market. Eat lemon pie. Bring Brian cupcake from party as a I spent money consolation prize. Fill his car with gas and buy him some beer. Come home, start writing this blog.

Insert over the course of the day, meltdowns, beeping phones, I love yous and kisses, 1000 thank yous from my kids, wiping little bottoms lots of times, one wet accident (Lainey), 1 hour of me being stressed to the max,  and funny car conversations:

Ellis: Lainey don't be sad at school today, okay.  Lainey: Go to school today?
Ellis: Lainey say "cow boy"  Lainey: Moo
Ellis: I am hungry lets, eat a helmet. Me: Son there is no person I know of who eats helmets! Ellis: Well then lets eat our shoes. Me: Son there is no person who eats there own shoes that I know of! Ellis: Well then lets eat a house.

It is now 10:11.

I spent over 4 hours in my car today.

This is what I have to be thankful for today:
I am thankful my yogurt turned out great.
I am thankful I am able to stay home to run my kids to the school I so love.
I am thankful to have a running car with gas in it.
I am thankful we are able (although just barely) to afford to send them to the school.
I am thankful I get to eat lunch with my son sitting on benches, with his feet swinging, I love it when he gives me his crust to eat, and asks me if my lunch is good.
I am thankful that the yahoos on the road didn't actually crash into me.
I am thankful I have friends to get messages from.
I am thankful I am well enough to clean my home.
I am thankful we are able to buy the local food that we ate for dinner tonight.
I am thankful for an awesome neighbor.
I am thankful my husband got home safely from work okay.
I am thankful for time with wonderful friends who I love dearly.
I am thankful that I am done blogging and will go put on my pj's. I won't do another a day in the life of for a while. It takes to dang long.