unedited morning journaling

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So today I took Derek to his 4 month old well-baby check up appointment.  Can't believe he is 4 months now and I'm ecstatic about it.  Just think, within the next couple of months he will be crawling and eating food!  Oh ya, and we are officially 1/3 of the way through the first year.  I'm not a baby person so I don't enjoy the first year much.  I am more of a toddler gal. Taison is doing a lot better with the whole Derek situation now.  I think we are out of the worst now and he seems to really dig him more every day.  Rice won us a free laptop by accident and it came yesterday!  It is what I am using to write this on right now.  We're going to share this one and I can use it at school if I need to.  Exciting!!  I am slowly getting back to my self again.  I think I will get there a lot faster this time around.  With Taison I didn't even start doing any "Abby" activities until Taison was a little over a year old.  The one thing that is not going so well is the weight loss as I have been 185 for a month now.  BUT, I can't really blame anyone but myself because I haven't been eating consistently well yet.  I also have not been drinking enough water.  Soooo, what can I do to alleviate this little issue?  I need a new water bottle...and maybe a chart of some sort on the fridge to keep me motivated for awhile.  As far as eating, well, I need a meal plan basically.  Before I do that though I need to figure out how many calories I need right now.  Always fun to guess at this number when your breastfeeding.  I've also been doing a little work on my time management.  I have been keeping tabs on my activities and as it turns out I DO in fact have time for everything I want to do.  I just don't have seemingly endless blocks of open free time like I did before Taison and Derek came into the picture.  What I'm trying to say is that I can do it all, but just in small increments during each day.  The one thing I haven't picked back up yet is sewing.  I could easily do one step a day on a garment and finish it in a week or two, I'm just trying to decided if the payoff is good enough giving that I am losing weight and won't be able to wear it for long. 

Okay what do I want to get done soon...
-pluck eyebrows
-finish and put up trash bag Halloween decorations
-do a run/walk
-do a 10 min. stretch
-do some light strength training
-cook dinner
-do a couple of 20 min cleaning blocks
-find and purchase Derek a Gator's shirt
-shave
-FINISH MY RECERT for NASM!!!
-Call UNF and make sure I am ready to go for spring registration

These are those moments when I look at my list and realize that if I didn't have small children I could easily get all of this accomplished in one day.  Buuuuuuut, I don't.  My reality is that my little one just got shots today so he will probably have a low grade fever today, tonight, and maybe some of tomorrow and my little toddler wants to do what he wants when he wants which pretty much is playing outside ALL day.

I think that concludes my random thoughts of the morning so far.  Peace out and see you next time.

the life of one stay-at-home-mom...

My time management needs some work.  There, ahhhhh, that first step is always the hardest right? 

So...what am I going to do about this little issue?  I have vowed to write down all of my activities for a week so I can see where I can be more efficient and plan accordingly.  Yesterday was my first day and as I looked back on my day I giggled.  Instead of doing anything in large blocks of time which is what I thought I was doing, my day was a LONG list of 15 minutes activities for the most part.  I thought it would be fun to write everything I did here and preserve a day in my life as a stay-at-home-mom with a toddler and infant.  So here it goes...

Woke up by kids at 9am

hang out with kids...

make everyone breakfast, eat, put away clean dishes, change diapers...

hang out with kids...

kid's baths...

rock baby to sleep...

hold/nurse sleeping baby while watching latest episode of Vampire Diaries and start a new movie...

make Derek's 4 month old well-baby checkup appointment...

hang out with Rice and kids...

pay bills...

put Derek to sleep...

stretching...

work on/plan finances...

facebook...

hold both kids...

hang out with Rice and kids...

laundry...

make everyone lunch, eat...

feed Derek...

hang out with kids...

groom myself (ie. shower, brush teeth, etc.)...

more laundry...

hang out with only Taison...

planning/reviewing goals...

outdoor cardio with both kids in tow...

more laundry and cleaning...

Make everyone dinner, eat...

more planning/appointment making...

email...

try to learn about selling on EBay/hang out with Taison...

put Taison to sleep...

EBay learning again/work on my first listing...

watch another part of movie...

1:30am  BEDTIME!!

While this is not every single thing I did yesterday (extreme multi-tasking is a mom must) it sums up the major stuff pretty well.  What can I look forward to tomorrow?  Pretty much the same thing, with different to-do's/errands.  And so on and so forth.


I have a little over three more years of being a stay-at-home-mom/student left and while the kids and I absolutely love it, sometimes it leaves me feeling like this...

NIN-Everyday Is Exactly The Same

: )  What are your days like?