week in the life: mon april 1

I love when Birchie and Stephany and others have done this and was looking for a writing challenge to kick off Q2 - so, here we go:

  A Monday in the life of this mom, partner, hybrid worker, dumpster fire (haha!):

 

7:15 Wake up (oof, we slept in after a few days of all-night-LM-has-a-cold wake ups) followed by a LM cuddle

 

7:20 Randomly scroll (oof, bad habit) and then put on my work from home video call mullet (cute shirt on top, leggings on the bottom)

7:30 Head downstairs. Coffee for me and the Mr. and purple Gator-eggs for LM from the Mr. (purple scrambled eggs that he tried to convince her were made with Gatorade for April Fools); lots of Bella begging for food and ignoring her own

7:50 Upstairs to work for me; emails and Teams hellos

8:15 LM comes up to get ready so lots of chats and whines

8:35 The Mr. takes LM to the school walkers meeting place and I keep working

8:45 Put in my contacts, brush my hair and teeth, deodorant, moisturize, sunscreen, and take my meds 

 

8:50 Catch up on this post and some blogs and comment during (vs. a bunch of open tabs and forgotten thoughts); get excited for the Cool Bloggers Walking Club and hopeful gold stars

9:00 Head downstairs to say hi to the dog and make my smoothie; chat with the Mr. when gets home from drop-off

 

9:10 Meetings and emails and drafts and tasks

 

11:30 Was supposed to be lunch but became an extension of my 11-11:30

 

11:48 LUNCH BREAK! A cup of tea, some food, a catch up with the Mr. and Bella (we finally booked our April school vacation plans!) and then a 10-minute stretch to keep my lower back from aching; catch up on this post

 

1 Draft and chat and tasks and fires to be put out and plans and rewriting plans (well, at 1:52 I went and dramatically laid in my bed for a few minutes after an awkward email exchange)

 

2:45 Change into real pants and go pick up LM at the walker’s meet-up

 

3:30 Get back and check in with my team one last time for today while the Mr. gives LM early dinner (and more cold meds); catch up on this post

 

4:05 Hang with LM while she puts on the dreaded tights and get-up

 

4:15 Drive LM to dance and catch up in the parking lot

 

4:35 Home and finish up a email. Then, dinner with the Mr.! Greek chicken bowls with basmati and all the veggies. I remember to pack one for my in office lunch tomorrow!

 

6:10 The Mr. goes to grab Lil Momma and I head downstairs for a walk + run for 20 minutes (and a walking club gold star for day 1!)

6:45 They get home and it’s homework and showers and whining 

 

7:45 We watch the first episode of Taskmaster’s 17^th series!

 

8:30 LM says goodnight to the Mr. and goes up to Wordle and Duolingo and read; the Mr. and I watch the new Pioneer Woman from last weekend (why we watch this regularly, I have no clue)

 

9:15 I go up and say goodnight to LM, do my own Duolingo, then skincare, teeth, contacts out - glasses on, stretch, etc.

 

9:30 The Mr. comes up from taking the dog out and doing his Duolingo (he plays all day and takes his leaderboard place seriously, haha) and we continue watching season 2 of CSI: Miami (we don’t know why we feel compelled to complete all the CSIs, but we are so far in we can’t stop)

10:45 Glasses off, hopeful sleep 

That’s it for day 1! Nothing too crazy, but a normal Monday here…