Mommy Musings

Thirty Things #12: Describe a typical day in your life. This is actually a pretty tough question for me to answer since "typical" is not really in the vocabulary of a cop wife.  Since Skip's schedule switches between days and nights every week, and his days off change every week as well, we're all over the place. And that doesn't include the days he works a double shift.  So I'll describe a typical day when Skip works a 16 hour shift and it's just me and the girls all day. 7:00-8:00 - When the girls usually wake up.  I change diapers, brush teeth, etc. 8:00-8:30 - Both girls get sippies of milk and some breakfast...waffles, pancakes, cereal fruit..something like that 8:30-9:30 - Girls play in the house normally.  I try to do a little blogging, tidy up, get the dogs up and outside, make and drink lots and lots of coffee and get myself ready 9:30-12:00 Get the girls dressed...we then either play outside, go to the park, or run errands 12:00 - Lunch for both ...

I am really interested in reading about other people's schedules...especially when they have kids around Little M's age.  I have always believed that kids thrive on a schedule but obviously the exact schedule depends on each child and each family situation.  This is a basic idea of our day with Little M! {things definitely change depending on what shift Skip is working, and what we have going on, but this is pretty much it most days} 7:00-9:30 - Little M wakes up anywhere in this range.  She has always been a screamer as soon as she wakes up, so we just sleep until our little alarm clock gets us up!  It varies, but most days she wakes up around 9 {*love* this by the way!} 9:00-10:00 - Milk, breakfast, Mommy attempts to get dressed for the day, get Little M dressed, Little M watches some TV {Sesame Street, Mickey Mouse, or Barney} 10:00-12:00 - This is normally when we run errands or get stuff done around the house.  Also my parents are coming over to see Little ...