This is my day: Wake up any time between 7:00 and 9:00 depending on when the kids fell asleep the night before. When someone gets me up I usually get up and get both of them diaper changes and dressed. I fix Niyama breakfast. Then I proceed to do pots and pans from the night before and unload the dishwasher. I usually do about two loads of laundry. I also clean clean clean my ass off almost all day. Indra is either in the baby carrier, on my hip, or playing EVERYWHERE. He can army crawl now, so I have to keep a close eye on him. By the time I have the house looking orderly, its about 12:00 which is lunchtime. We always have leftovers or PB&J. Afterwards is playtime and quiet time when we all get in bed and read books for a while. I also do a craft project with Niyama most days. By 3:00 pm I'm usually getting dinner ready and doing another round of cleaning up after Niyama. I cook dinner from scratch every single day of the week which can take anywhere between 1 and 3 hours total. Between 4:00 and 5:00 Indra finally starts melting down and it gets hectic between the two of them and finishing up dinner and setting the table. Zack gets home at 5:30 and I have dinner on the table as he walks in the door. We all eat and socialize a bit. By 7:00 Niyama has teeth brushed, gone potty, washed up, and I read her two books before bed. I usually sit in her room 15-30 mins while she falls asleep. Then I run down and grab Indra, get him changed and ready for bed. I nurse him to sleep in our room. So I am usually free by 9:00. I get a little time with Zack before he leaves for work again at 10:30. Now is when I clean up after dinner, tidy the house, and finish up with whatever laundry. I pack Zack a lunch. Then I usually go to bed around 11:00. I nurse Indra periodically throughout the night and most nights Niyama cries out for me so I run in there to settle her back in. Other than that, throw in about 5ish diaper changes, a bunch of nursing sessions, Indra gets one or two shortish naps, and reminding Niyama about using the potty (or face the consequence: cleaning up accidents) and making snacks all day. Not to mention lots of meltdowns, time-outs, playing on the floor with Indra and Nini doing puzzles and building with blocks... you get the picture. Whatever way you look at it, its usually a busy busy day!
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Date: 2008-12-13 01:35 am (UTC)Wake up any time between 7:00 and 9:00 depending on when the kids fell asleep the night before. When someone gets me up I usually get up and get both of them diaper changes and dressed. I fix Niyama breakfast. Then I proceed to do pots and pans from the night before and unload the dishwasher. I usually do about two loads of laundry. I also clean clean clean my ass off almost all day. Indra is either in the baby carrier, on my hip, or playing EVERYWHERE. He can army crawl now, so I have to keep a close eye on him.
By the time I have the house looking orderly, its about 12:00 which is lunchtime. We always have leftovers or PB&J. Afterwards is playtime and quiet time when we all get in bed and read books for a while. I also do a craft project with Niyama most days. By 3:00 pm I'm usually getting dinner ready and doing another round of cleaning up after Niyama. I cook dinner from scratch every single day of the week which can take anywhere between 1 and 3 hours total. Between 4:00 and 5:00 Indra finally starts melting down and it gets hectic between the two of them and finishing up dinner and setting the table. Zack gets home at 5:30 and I have dinner on the table as he walks in the door. We all eat and socialize a bit. By 7:00 Niyama has teeth brushed, gone potty, washed up, and I read her two books before bed. I usually sit in her room 15-30 mins while she falls asleep.
Then I run down and grab Indra, get him changed and ready for bed. I nurse him to sleep in our room. So I am usually free by 9:00. I get a little time with Zack before he leaves for work again at 10:30. Now is when I clean up after dinner, tidy the house, and finish up with whatever laundry. I pack Zack a lunch. Then I usually go to bed around 11:00.
I nurse Indra periodically throughout the night and most nights Niyama cries out for me so I run in there to settle her back in.
Other than that, throw in about 5ish diaper changes, a bunch of nursing sessions, Indra gets one or two shortish naps, and reminding Niyama about using the potty (or face the consequence: cleaning up accidents) and making snacks all day. Not to mention lots of meltdowns, time-outs, playing on the floor with Indra and Nini doing puzzles and building with blocks... you get the picture. Whatever way you look at it, its usually a busy busy day!