Saturday by the hour

6 am - Glenn wakes to go to day 2 of 3 of his motorcycle licensing class.  I am half asleep, but remember that I wanted to do this hour by hour post today so I reluctantly grab my camera and take a pic while in bed.

7 am - still sleeping

8 am - the little ones & I wake.  I toast them rolls, jam for Lila, honey for Ethan. I eat oatmeal while reading blogs, they drink juice and read in my bed.

9 am - Emry arrives home from a sleepover at her cousins.  They went garage sale-ing and she got this shirt.  I am not a fan of my daughter wearing a shirt with soda on it, but she does have a bubbly personality.  We get to work cleaning the whole house.

10 am - Emry goes with a friend to her horse competion, I make banana peanut butter chocolate smoothies for the little ones & Ethan does some homework.

 

11 am - prep sweet potatoes for lunch & fold laundry while the kids play outside.                                         

 

12 pm - hop on the stairmaster for 30 min. and hope the kids continue to keep themselves busy.

 

1 pm - Lunch brought to us by the Halloween color of orange.  Yams topped with leftover tikki masala for me, grilled cheese on rolls with carrots and juice for the kids.

2 pm - I do Lila's and mine hair and give her a pedicure while my vacumn reminds me I still need to use it.  Ethan hangs out near us and reads because heaven forbid he ever be alone.  Ditto for Brutus.

3 pm - snack of frozen cherries, cottage cheese and homemade granola for me.  Not sure what the kids are doing.  Take a few glamour shots of my new hair.  I went dark for the first time in my life.  I do a double take every time I look in a mirror.  I feel serious and smart, like I should move to New York and work on Wall Street.  The bummer is I feel the need to wear more make up. 

Every year I get the itch to do something drastic, whether it's cutting bangs, putting red in my hair, perm it, or chopping it all off.  I remember looking through a friends photo album and her whole life her hair never changed.  Nothing wrong with that, but it struck me that I didn't want my kids flipping through the photos of my life and always seeing me the same.  Sounds a little silly, but it motivates me to change things up.

4 pm - Glenn & Emry arrive home and the kids play outside with an art paint spinner Emry got garage sale- ing this morning (free since they didn't have change for a $20).  My kids went through 2 of these when they were younger.  I ordered 10 sets of overpriced paper from the address on the back of the box, and then had to order more (it's impossible to cut it to just the size you need, and you have to use heavy paper, don't think I didn't try to cheapskate my way out of it and cut my own paper).   It involves paint, it's messy, and they get to create works of art, definitely kid approved!!

Emry also got a little baby bee to match Lila's pillow pet for 50 cents.  I think it is so adorable and  tried to convince Glenn how adorable it was too.  He thought I was a little crazy.

5 pm - Run to Walmart to return this curling iron & a Redbox and pick up some straws, nail polish remover, yogurt and pull ups.   My son is 6 and still wears pull ups.  We ran out for 2 days and he managed to pee his bed one night and Emry's the next.  Both beds were also part of my laundry extravaganza today.  The girls wore pull ups for about a month, I need to figure this out.

This curling iron doesn't work.  I so want beachy waves but this is the 2nd curling iron I have taken back in the past 2 weeks.  I have straight hair.  I don't comb or condition it but it continues to be straight as a board.  I am thinking when my hair gets a little longer I might have to try another perm.

6 pm - Say goodbye to Brutus & Eclipse (my sister's dog) and go to our friends home for dinner.  Glenn helped them make large closets for their garage so they owe us.  Try to take a cute pic of the kids but they obviously make that impossible.

7 pm - Did I say home?  Correction, they live in a mansion!!!  Would have taken pictures of their lovely and spacious abode but seeing how I just met her that night I decided to make a good impression and not be creepy.

The wood-fired oven in their backyard where we cooked our individual pizzas.   

 

8 pm - Dinner time!  My pizza with red sauce, pesto, mozzarella, goat cheese, onions & mushrooms. I ate it all it was soooo good.  After dinner the kids made dessert pizzas with chocolate and powdered sugar. I ate some chocolate and then we had root beer floats.  Can you say stuffed?

9 pm - had to get a pic of the girls with the kittens they are enamored with.  They are trying to convince us to take one.  

10 pm - My camera is mysteriously full of kitten pictures and my battery is dead.  That's O.K., I have no more pics to take anyway, we're all just going to bed.  It's been a good day.  Goodnight.