A Day in the Life

When I was younger I used to like to read fashion magazines (what am I saying, I still do!) and sometimes there was a column where the model would walk the reader through her day with pictures. This post will also be a day in the life of, just not the glamorous running around New York kind. 

So here is a snapshot of our day on Friday. 

7 AM  

Time to wake up already! 

All before this hour:

J has been singing/talking for awhile.

Way before this hour L has left for work. 

Sorry L I couldn't make it up at 5 AM to make you your lunch.

8 AM  

Making Coffee. 

Having Cranberry Almond cereal for breakfast. 

J is hanging out in her Bumbo chair playing with a lime coloured plastic Easter egg that my aunt put dried beans into and taped closed with packing tape. It is one of her favorite toys. She loves to shake it & it's the perfect size for little fingers. Does this mean she will be musical? 

All before this hour:

Have fed J & changed her diaper. 

Have changed J into a day outfit.

9 AM

Folding Laundry.

Talking to my mom on speaker phone.

All before this hour: 

Have changed J.

Added toilet bowl cleaner to toilets.

Dressed.

Made bed.

Combed hair.

Made a telephone call.

10 AM

J goes for her morning nap.

It lasts 1/2 an hour.

I look for bedding.

Oh West Elm! My heart swoons.

11 AM

All before this hour:

Have fed & changed J's diaper.

Put away 1/2 of load of folded whites.

Rinsed out washing rags with bleach.

Put in second load into washing machine.

Now, dishes from breakfast & last night's supper.

12 AM

Making lunch.

Lunch is lentil soup that I made & leftover quesadillas.

I ground up a quesadilla for J.

Last night she loved it. Today... well we resorted to pluots.

Mmm we love pluots.

All before this hour:

Dishes are washed.

Cue all the baby anger for me doing housework instead of playing with her. 

So 1/2 an hour of undivided attention playing with J.

1 PM

Off we go for a walk but not before another diaper change & outfit change.

J sleeps half the way.

2 PM

Home again.

Change diaper & outfit.

Take out fish from freezer for supper & loosely plan what I am making for dinner.

We post a picture on Instagram of our walk.

Play with toys & listen to a novel.

3 PM

Snack-time: I make a London Fog.

J has a messy cookie.

Playtime.

Listening to novel.

4 PM

J goes for a nap & I do some financial work in office.

5 PM

J is awake.

I try to eke out a few more moments of office work by putting J in the jolly jumper.

J is not amused.

6 PM

Making dinner.

7 PM

L is home for work & it's dinner time.

I made salad, fish, couscous, & toppings to add to couscous (feta, green onions, peppers, raisins, fried mushrooms, and chili flakes. L will add sriracha sauce to his. He adds sriracha to almost everything. You can almost pretend its Korean is his reasoning.)

J blows out the couscous. Its hilarious and messy. Couscous is not a hit. 

The white fish however she loves. Yay! 

8 PM

It is normally Js bedtime.

I am finishing up a blog post on the laptop at the island.

And then this happened. 

Chocolate sauce & frozen yogurt.

J was bouncing off the walls.

L changed her & washed her up.

We changed her into her bedtime sleeper & she took almost an hour to calm down before her bottle, stretches and bedtime.

No more sugar before bed from now on.

I sound like a grouchy grownup.

9:30 PM

Finally.

Bedtime.

Lights out.

For the count J had 6 outfit changes in this day (including the 2 sleeper changes). 

Obviously she is the model in this column and not me.