Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Mornin' routine




When my awesome husband is out of town - the typical routine looks completely different:

Let’s start from when I get home from work (and he’s gone):

  • Home around 7:15 (much earlier than usual, so I can relieve our afternoon tutor for B&B)
  • Grocery store run (because someone needs something for some class)
  • Make my dinner (yep - usually the hubby makes me yummy food, but not tonight)
  • Eat dinner and watch some TV with kiddos
  • Put kiddos to bed
  • Evening call to out of town hubby, to catch him up on the evening
  • Make lunches for tomorrow (while catching up on TIVO’d TV - so it takes at LEAST two times longer)
  • I go to bed, but I don’t really because I turn on the TV in the bedroom (STAY UP TOO LATE WATCHING THINGS I GENERALLY HAVE NO TIME FOR, such as Project Runway All Stars)
  • 5:25am: alarm goes off for the morning workout, but I snooze because I’m stiff tired from being up too late the night before
  • 6:15: actual up & shower, etc
  • 6:40: wake kiddos up
  • 6:50: kiddos actually get up
  • 6:50 - 7:15: morning blog time for Paperclip
  • 7:12: kiddos come down for breakfast, while I finish getting ready for work
  • 7:25: start telling kiddos to get in the car to leave for school
  • 7:33: actual time we leave for school drop off
  • 8:20: arrive at the office (about 20 minutes earlier than when my husband is here)

No complaints - this is just how it goes when he’s out of town.

MUCH different from when he’s here and does a LOT of the typical routine tasks (like making lunches and taking kiddos to school).

Much respect to the single parents out there - who ALWAYS have all of the responsibility of making everything run smoothly.

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