Here is a recap of my day for any who are interested:
5:00 – Ryan gives me a kiss before he goes to work (I am still in bed - but not for long)
6:00 – Lucy wakes up and wants her bottle
6:45 – Bella wakes up and wants breakfast
7:00 – Wake-up Clark
7:15 – Wake-up Clark, again
7:45 – Breakfast where Clark and Bella both spill milk (Clark did clean those up for me :)
8:00 – Clark said prayers before he left for school today and prayed that I would have a good day.
8:30 – Clean bathroom mirrors – I really do love a clean mirror so I was hoping not to have water splashed all over them until tomorrow
9:00 – Put in the first of 5 loads of laundry
Talk with family who call to wish me a good day, check e-mail, get happy facebook messages :), and iron clothes
10:45 – Lucy already awake from her morning nap – still kind sad – try to put her back down but there will be none of that!
11:00 – Start unloading the dishwasher to realize that it never got started last night – have to re-load and start
11:45 – Bella covers hands, feet, clothes and half her hair with lotion
12:45 – Take folded clothes upstairs to the girls’ room to realize that there is also lotion all over the carpet and dresser
12:55 – Bella sneezed and wiped her face (and nose) on the carpet (what part of that seems like a good idea?) Good thing I haven’t gotten the carpet cleaner out yet to take care of the loti
on, since I guess I have boogers on the carpet to take care of too!
1:00 – Lunch – leftovers for me; quesadilla for Bella; pretzels & yogurt for Lucy
1:20 – Showered and got dressed wearing a cute new shirt I bought on clearance for 5 bucks at Old Navy last week – Happy Birthday to me!
1:45 – Feed Lucy her bottle and watch the first 15 minutes of Iron Chef – then she goes down for her nap :)
1:55 - Clark had early release from school and got home. He asked how my day had gone, and I said, "Just a normal day", to which he replied, "Not that good, huh?" Do I complain too much about my days?
2:00 – Meeting to figure out what to do with my new church assignment
Fold more laundry, unload dishes, wipe runny noses, pick-up toys, small pieces of paper that Bella has cut up today, and all kinds of things that seem to not be where they are supposed to be – but a few sweet friends called and made the jobs much more enjoyable (shouldn’t the song be ‘talk while you work’ instead of ‘whistle while you work’. I can’t whistle anyway, so talking fits me much better!)
4:45 – Tried to talk to a lady on the phone for about 1 minute and Bella threw a huge fit because I couldn’t hold both her and Lucy properly at the same time. In fact, the fit was so large I had to get off the phone with her.
4:50 – Put Bella down for a ‘rest’ in her bed – hoping she would make it through the evening! She fell asleep and I had to wake her up at 6:00; she must coming down or fighting something because she never sleeps in the afternoon.
5:00 – Finish folding the last of the 5 loads of laundry and put them away before Lucy unfolds them all!
6:30 – Ryan gets home early from work and we go out to dinner so I don’t have to cook it or clean it!
At the restaurant:
• Bella had to go to the bathroom not just once but twice
• Lucy was much more interested in squealing, eating straws, trying to eat peanuts that she shouldn’t eat, and pulling everyone’s plates off the table than she was in eating
• We managed to eat 21 rolls between the 4/5 of us
• We made it out with everyone happy and without the manager having to ask us to leave :)
8:30 – Open the presents I got for myself and that the kids gave me (I hope my kids don’t read this anytime soon or they might be disappointed that it wasn’t a surprise). Bella was really cute and said that we share birthdays to we can all get presents! She gave me a pile of hearts that she punched out of paper this afternoon before the breakdown. (There are lots of paper remnants around the downstairs.)
9:00 – Read scriptures & said prayers
9:15 – Changed Lucy’s diaper while Ryan got out the carpet cleaner to take care of the lotion upstairs. While I was changing Lucy’s diaper, she needed some diaper rash cream, so I got up to get some from the closet and while I was gone for about 30 seconds, Lucy peed on the carpet downstairs. I told Ryan not to put the carpet cleaner away.
9:20 – Got the girls in bed while Ryan cleaned the downstairs carpet spot.
9:45 – Talked with Clark about his book report that is due tomorrow but isn’t quite ready to give.
10:15 – Said goodnight to Ryan and made lunches for tomorrow.
10:30 – Wrote about my 33rd anniversary of my birth!
11:30 - Time to go to bed and do this all again tomorrow. Well, at least I don't have laundry to do again for a few days, but I don't get off the hook for dinner :)
The reality is that this day on paper really doesn’t look all that great and I suppose maybe that is why I don’t always journal day to day things because I don’t know if I want to remember the craziness of each day! But when it comes down to it – I am glad to be a mom to each of my kids, I am glad to have wonderful friends and family in my life that remember me and care enough to send a card, e-mail, a phone call, post a message, etc. I am glad I have a great man to share my life with and although I wish I was spending the day in Hawaii or something, I would still want this life back after the vacation. I wish it wasn’t quite so chaotic but, oh well. Happy Another Year of life to me!
(And if anyone can tell me how to make my picture big without getting all grainy PLEASE leave me a comment and tell me how to do it! It looks really good in photoshop but when I upload it on my blog it is so small and if I go into 'Edit HTML' and increase the numbers it gets all blury. I must be missing something.)
Now, Clark on the other hand, he doesn't fit into old items. I asked him about a month ago what he wanted to be and he told me he wanted to be an ipod nano. What? OK, how are your going to be that? I figured that he would come up with something else, but no. He really wanted to be a nano, figured out how it should be made and waited until Thursday (after the World Series game) to get going. (See, he had to have it ready for school on Friday morning!) He went to bed without much of a costume and here is what he ended up with the next morning: 
Really, I was kinda impressed with myself. I liked the back best. He liked it too, so I guess the late night paid off. He said that next year he isn't going to be some kind of 'box' costume (last year was the rubix cube). We will see.
