A morning in the life…

5:50 am : Wake up to Jeremiah's alarm clock "Woo Hoo! Woo Hoo!" Gwen Stefani's "Sweet Escape" blares through our bedroom at a ridiculously loud volume level.

6:30 am : After prayers, put on some sweats
and follow Jeremiah downstairs to make sure he gets some sort of breakfast (a protein shake suffices)....hear Liam crying in his crib, run upstairs to get him before he wakes everyone else....

6:45 am : Kiss my beloved "Good Bye" and wish him luck on his first day at a new architecture firm. He will be taking the city bus everyday to downtown KC, so as he leaves the house I watch him from the window walk up the block towards the stop…I tear up as if he were my child going to his first day of school…darn hormones. I whisper "I love you, good luck" as if he can hear me….

6:47 am : Sitting down to nurse Liam

7:00 am : Julianna starts crying…Liam is playful. I run upstairs to "rescue her" I take her to my bed where we all snuggle and both little ones fall fast asleep. I doze for a few minutes…

7:24 am : I look at the clock…gotta get Brinton and Ash up and ready for school. As I crawl out of bed I realize that at some point in the last 20 minutes Elise has made herself comfortable in my bed and fallen back to sleep…walk across the hall tell Brinton to get up, walk down the hall tell Ashlynne to get up…go downstairs

7:30 am : I don't hear any noise…walk upstairs Ash is awake and dressed…tell Brinton to get up again

7:35 am : Brinton PLEASE get up…

7:40 am : I pick out clothes for Brinton and proceed to take his jammies off and change him into school clothes while he is still fast asleep…carry him downstairs.

7:45 am : Make 2 hefty bowls of cereal…Brinton is finally starting to wake up and he is a little cranky…brush Ashlynne's hair…prepare lunch for school (we did chicken noodle soup today) and pack lunch boxes

8:08 am : OUT THE DOOR!! Babies are sleeping, I have a few minutes to myself before the day starts—need to do the dishes—start to unload the dishwasher from yesterday…Liam crying….nurse Liam

9:00 am : Need to do the dishes...finish unloading dishwasher, start to wash dishes…Elise gets up, lays on the couch and screams MOM GET ME A BLANKET PUH-LEEEAASE!...turn off the faucet, go get a blanket, place on Elise who has fallen back asleep on the couch….Liam & Nanna sleeping…need to do the dishes…ug but look at this laundry that needs to be folded….

9:30 am : Julianna & Liam wake up….turn on Sesame Street….Elise wakes up….need to fold laundry & do dishes…ug I forgot to make my bed…go upstairs…

10:30 am : Bed made….laundry folded….Elise dressed and ready for school (needs to be there at 12:30)….need to do the dishes…Ummm mom when are you gonna make us breakfast?! Uhhhh right now, that's exactly what I was gonna do before I do the dishes. After two more hefty bowls of cereal and some nectarines…I gotta do the dishes…Liam starts crying

11:00 am: Nurse Liam in front of the computer, check my email, my blog & facebook then I gotta do the DISHES!!

11:30 am: minor detour to put some laundry in the washer after laying Liam down for his nap….now I am ready to do the dishes…Mommy can I have some water? It's Julianna of course (she love's H20)…so I pour Julianna a big cup of water…she gulps a bunch and as she goes to set it on the table puts it too close to the edge and SPLASH!!
Water all over my kitchen floor and all over her pants…gotta change Julianna…gotta mop the floor….then I gotta do the dishes!!! Did I mention I haven't yet had breakfast? (My mother is gonna kill me when she reads this..) Better do that first!!

11:45 am: Eat some left over pizza and a homemade smoothie for breakfast…start dishes…while doing dishes I hear the
girls screaming STOP! STOP! I turn off the faucet and run to see what's wrong…It's Dora the Explorer's fault! She is telling the kids to scream Stop! Although I'm not sure why? Maybe Swiper was Swiping?!...back to dishes…realize how much I HATE HATE HATE
dishes and decide screw global warming, Mr. Gore, carbon footprints and going green! I'm gonna buy me some disposable bowls, cups and a cutlery set, too!!!...the phone rings…take a phone call…

12:00 pm: Return to cursing the dishes…look up at the clock 12:11!! I need to leave to take Lisey to school in like 5 minutes and I'm still in sweats! I run upstairs to get dressed in something more presentable and wake Liam up from his slumber…While I'm upstairs my girls go in the backyard to talk to their friend over the fence. I realize Julianna isn't wearing shoes. I go to our shoe shelf and of her 4 pairs one is missing and the other 3 only have one half of the pair…WE NEED TO GO!!...I run upstairs to the great abyss that is my daughter's bedroom and crawl on hands and knees looking for a matching shoe…find one, FINALLY! Run outside to get the girls…we walk to school and get there with a couple minutes to spare!

12:32 pm: Back from taking Lise to school we walk in the house….remember those dishes I was doing? Yeah well I'm a braniac…I guess I was really into the "screw going green"
thing cause I left the water running!! Not too big of a mess thank goodness….MOP THE FLOOR…then finish the dishes (I swear there really wasn't that many of them, I just couldn't get it done for some crazy reason..)

The rest of the day went off without a glitch…till tomorrow..dun-dun-duuunnnnn….