A Day In The Life...

So I decided to document a "day in the life" on Instagram yesterday, but wanted to share it here as well for those of you who don't follow me on Instagram. (And if you don't follow me there, click the link on the right to do so...I post a lot there!)

I wake up at 4:30am and can't get back to sleep. After an hour of tossing and turning, I give in and decide to wake up for the day. I look out the window and see that it's another grey sky...er BEAUTIFUL day in the Pacific NW! My treadmill taunts me from the end of the bed each and every moment I'm in my room. I make a mental note to move the treadmill to the garage when we can.

I make a quick blog post from my mobile Blogger app, but I'm still frustrated that I can only post photos at the end of a post right now. Hoping there is a fix/update on this soon as it's a pain.

I head into the bathroom to take a shower and take some medicine. I'm going on Day 7 of still being sick and so these two things are what helps me through my days and take care of the kids!

I go into the big boy's room to get him up and find that he's not there...I look in his closet and the bathroom and then realize that someone (not me...the husband!) left the gate on the stairs open. This isn't a big deal as much with Santi since he can walk up and down the stairs by himself...and he chose to do that this morning!

I find him downstairs going through his cars and playing. He grabs his toys and comes upstairs after a promise that he can watch "one episode" of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

 

I go into get the little one and find her already awake and sitting up in her crib. Her hair looks like this most days when she's not wearing a ponytail. It's a reverse mullet basically as it's long on the top and front and shorter in the back. Eventually it'll come in, right?  :)

 

 I put on a show for the kids (Little Einsteins) and hit the shower and get dressed quickly. I literally only have about 20  minutes to get ready each morning because Santi gets bored at the end of the show and comes to ask me to put another one on. So in order to avoid that, I dress quickly and throw my hair up in a messy bun (since I'm sick I don't feel like doing anything with it anyway) and put some makeup on in case someone comes to the door or we do head out I don't scare anyone away!

All dressed and ready to go downstairs!

I grab my pedometer that I've been wearing for a couple of weeks and curse myself for forgetting to put it on a bit ago since I feel like I've already walked a mile or two just chasing the kids around before breakfast.

Fed the kids breakfast (waffles, fruit and milk) and myself (fruit, slice of Dave's Killer Bread and 2 egg whites with spinach scrambled together.)

After breakfast I have my morning Spark, Catalyst, fish oil, probiotic and fiber powder. Love my Advocare products! (Want some of your own? You can order from me via my website here!)

While eating, we notice that Gaby's little cell phone is talking to us by itself. I'm hoping the batteries are dying and that's why, otherwise it means someone is trying to communicate with us from the beyond... :)

 While browsing my phone and Facebook, I discover Annette Funicello has died. This is so sad, as I grew up watching her on Disney reruns and those Beach Blanket Bingo movies. There was even a remake with her as a mom called "Back to the Beach" that I loved!

 The kids get a little cranky and whiny and I find this from Deliciously Darling on my Instagram feed and it reminds me to breathe...

 We head out to Lowe's which is about two miles away. It's all I can muster for today as my energy is low due to my illness. I grab some new pendant light shades, and get a piece of wood cut so I can make some coat racks for the garage mudroom project I'm working on and we head home.

 

I install the new pendant shades right when we get home as I'm making lunch for the kids (baking some nuggets for Santi and making a PB&J for Gaby allows me to multitask, plus the project took me about 15 minutes total.)

 Kids have lunch and I bring them upstairs for nap. I have my lunch finally at about 2:30pm and settle in to watch a DVR'd episode of Kourtney and Kim Take Miami and read my new People magazine that came in the mail over the weekend.

After my rest, I get up and start to cut out tags for the upcoming consignment sale and bring clothes and toys into the living room so I can tag them later on.

   

I take a moment to look out the window and realize that the sun came out along with some blue skies!

5pm and both kids are still sleeping and Tito is home! Right as he walks in the door, Santi starts waking up and I check the monitor and Gaby's awake too so we both head upstairs to get them.

 This is what greets me as I hit the top of the stairs...Santi is anxious to see his daddy!

 

Gaby's excited too!

 

Gaby being silly!

I bring Gaby into Santi's room where they both play for a bit before we all head downstairs.

 

Tito makes dinner (tacos with ground turkey) while I get to work on tagging items and enjoy a glass of wine (which is necessary.) I work right through dinner time and grab leftovers later.

After dinner we put Gaby to bed since she's grouchy and Tito plays with Santi until about 7:30pm, when he brings him up for storytime and bedtime.

I finally finish at 9:30pm and put everything away. My feet hurt after being on them for so long.

 

Tito's put in Zero Dark Thirty that I've been watching as I tag. I settle in and watch the rest of the movie and we head upstairs at 11pm (long movie!)

 Finally going to sleep at midnight after some final checks online and Tito reading the Wall Street Journal. This was a LONG day! Hoping I can sleep better tonight and I wake up healthier tomorrow!