Day 25 – My day, in great detail
I have a pretty run-of-the-mill schedule! I’m not going to run through my weekday because it’s quite boring. It would be like, wake up, go to work, meeting, computer work, lunch, meeting, computer work, home, dinner, TV/computer, sleep.
Seriously.
So let’s go through a “typical” Saturday!
6:00AM – Wake up to use the restroom for the second or third time in the night. Make Kris move over when I get back in bed because he’s taken up my side in the time it takes for me to use the restroom.
7:50AM – Wake up again because Nimbus is letting us know that he’s ready to start his day by whining from his kennel. Kris lets him outside for the morning.
8:30AM – Roll out of bed and head straight for the coffee maker. It’s 8 cups of freshly ground Dunkin’ Donuts coffee for this family! While the coffee brews, I go around the house opening the curtains and pulling up the shades. Kris comes into the kitchen and gets the soy milk for him and the half and half for me. I make our breakfast. Kris gets one piece of toast with peanut butter and honey. I get two pieces of toast with cherry jam and Smart Balance. We head into the den with our breakfast and spend some time on our laptops.
10:30AM – We’re still lounging on the couch, and we’ve done a little scripture devotional together. Today, it was on Romans 14. Talk about conviction!! Livingston has woken up in my belly and we spend some time talking to her. The phone rings, and it’s my mom. She and my Dad are heading to breakfast in town and will be stopping by our house to drop off our new swivel rocking chair that they had recovered for Livingston’s nursery. That means that we need to get motivated!
11:00AM – We get dressed and Kris heads to The Red Brick House to pick up Livingston’s dresser, which will double as a changing area. I straighten up the house and make our bed so my parents don’t think we live in a pig sty! This past week has been crazy for us, so we haven’t had much time to keep the house super tidy.
12:00PM – We’re still waiting on my parents and we’ve gotten hungry. I pull out our leftovers from dinner last night – The Pioneer Woman’s Bean and Beef Burritos – to reheat for lunch. Kris has his with water, and I have mine with a glass bottle Coca Cola!
12:30PM – Mom and Dad arrive with the chair. The men load it into the house while I show my mom the new Lands End Canvas collection online. We both decide that we need a pair of their bootcut jeans in the dark denim wash. While my parents are here, we decide that we should hang the mirror that Mom discovered at the Thieves Market (a local antique warehouse) over Livingston’s dresser. It looks great!!
1:30PM – Kris heads outside to cut the grass. It is blazing hot, so I sweep the cobwebs off of the porch then retire inside to spend some time reading blogs, Facebook, and Twitter.
2:30PM – Kris has wrapped up a wedding video for a local couple, so he leaves the house to have the DVD duplicated and I decide to shower and start preparing for our dinner plans.
3:30PM – I hit up the Piggly Wiggly for Quick Grits, Jimmy Dean sausage, and a gallon of Simply Orange orange juice. We’ve got dinner plans with our friends Laurie Beth and Hugh – and we’re collaborating to make breakfast for dinner! Once I get home, I boil water for the grits, brown the sausage, and mix it into the crock pot to let the grits slow cook. Then, I decide that we need some new belly shots of Livingston, so Kris and I head down to the park for some photos!
5:00PM – It is BLAZING hot outside and I am being attacked by mosquitoes. We feel like we’ve gotten some good pictures, so we come back inside to edit. I pull out the Cortizone lotion for my poor bitten ankles, and Kris starts to edit our photos.
6:00PM – We arrive at our friends’ house for dinner. They have a baby boy, so it’s great practice for us to hold him and learn how to be a Mommy & a Daddy!
9:00PM – We eat dinner. Blueberry pancakes, slow cooked sausage and grits, and scrambled eggs. And Paula Dean’s chocolate chip pie (kind of like a Derby pie) for dessert. YUM! I’m stuffed!
10:00PM – We watch YouTube videos for an hour and laugh our heads off. Then, we all realize how tired we are and that we have to get up early for church in the morning!
11:00PM – Arrive at home. Put on PJs. Pick up our laptops. I decide to upload a photo album of belly pictures to Facebook, and then I start to crash.
12:00AM – I can’t believe I’m still up! Drink my nightly glass of water, and we’re off to sleep. Goodnight!
