The Life of a Stay-at-home Mom

 I thought it would be fun to write a very detailed list of EVERYTHING I did one day. So the other day...this is what I did. It was quite a busy day, because Ben was so cooperative and took GREAT naps. Some days I sit and rock him all day because he's being a pain. The times are random because I couldn't remember them all.

1:30(am) - Ben wakes up

Get up to get bottle

Come back to bed

Ben is asleep, put bottle in fridge

Go back to bed, Ben wakes up

Go to fridge, get bottle

Get back to room, Ben is asleep (sigh, what I hate most about bottle feeding)

6:30 - get up
Feed Ben
Change diaper
Play with Ben and surf the internet
7:30 - Put Ben down for nap
Go in basement and paint trim
8:00 - Kaylee wakes up
Feed Kaylee breakfast and eat
Feed cats
Change Kaylee’s diaper and get her dressed
Clean up her room, make her bed
Clean up our room, make our bed
Clean toaster, oven, stove, stove hood, spice rack, KitchenAid, counter tops, microwave
9:30 - Ben wakes up
Go out to garage with both kids, Ben in bouncy seat
Clean up garage
Pull up Kaylee’s pants about every 2 minutes
Start to sweep
10:20 - Put Ben down for a nap
Go back out, wash plastic containers and buckets
Finish sweeping and organizing
11:00 - Come in for lunch
Ben wakes up
Go get Ben, put him in toy jumper
Make lunch
Ben cries - pick him up and finish making lunch
Scrape cheerios off Kaylee’s high chair tray
Sit down to eat, holding Ben, take only one bite...
Kaylee spills her lemonade
Put Ben down, rinse off tray, get more lemonade for Kaylee
Go get (now screaming) Ben and finish eating
Feed Ben
Put Ben in bouncer and clean up breakfast and lunch dishes
Put away dishes
Fold and put away load of towels
Put rags in washing machine
12:00 - Ben starts whining, sit and play with him and Kaylee
12:30 - Wipe out fridge
Put two cookies in the oven for Kaylee and myself (I make little cookie dough balls and freeze them for this purpose :)
Rock Ben for 15 minutes, put him in bed
Get out (burned) cookies, put in new ones...oops
Sweep kitchen floor and prep to wash
Eat cookies
Wash floor
Wash cookie dishes and put away
Wipe down chairs
1:30 - Clean up back yard
Push Kaylee in swing
1:50 Take shower
Get Ben and feed him
Get Kaylee a drink
Change Ben’s diaper
2:30 - Move rags to dryer
Organize junk drawer
Do hair and makeup
3:10 Run errands
Console Ben after being in the dreaded car seat for a half hour
Put away rags
Get chicken out for dinner
4:00 - Feed Ben and put down for nap
Start making dinner

4:30 - DADDY COMES HOME!!!! Hopefully he will never wonder why I'm tired at the end of the day.

I love days like this. It makes me feel productive!

Latest house project...

House projects around here have really slowed down, a lot. Our main living areas are decent now, and so I've tried to restrain myself from doing much right now so we can pay off our furnace and a/c. Even though there is SO MUCH I want to do, I can be patient. Sort of. I was getting a terrible itch to start another project, so I decided why not work on a basement room? My sister is coming to visit in a month or so for a couple of weeks, and I want her to have a room to stay in that is clean, fresh, and...well, just not completely gross. Right now, I'm sorry to say, the room she will be in is completely gross. I think I can make a HUGE difference in it with just some paint and a lot of elbow grease. Of course, that probably won't get rid of the spiders, but it might help at least a little bit...

Some of the previous owners decided that the fake wood paneling in one of the basement bedrooms was just too light, I guess, so they did a lovely nearly-black varnish type stain on it. It was super, super shiny, so nothing we could just paint right over. So, I put on my trusty dust mask and got to sanding.

I must admit I was not expecting to get that dirty. I thought it would be like...well, sanding. You know. You get a bit dusty. This was beyond that and so gross. Comparable to sanding our living room ceiling, actually, except at least that dust was white and fluffy, not dark brown and sticky. Can I just say I'm glad I was wearing a mask? Although, after I got about 3 layers of dust on it, I don't know how helpful it was.

Later, we washed the walls three times, but it's STILL a bit dirty so I think I'll have to do it just one more time and then I'll be ready to fill the holes, reattach the pieces of paneling that are loose, prime it and then paint it. Can't wait!