Last Tuesday I had an AWESOME DAY!

• Got up early
• Worked out
• Cooked a healthy breakfast
• Helped the kids with their schoolwork
• Got the kids caught up on some late homework
• Cleaned the kitchen, my room, the bathrooms
• Made a wonderful dinner
• Played outside with the kids
• Had a great conversation with my teenager while teaching her to drive
• Worked on my blog
• Spent time with my husband

If only that was the rule and not the exception! NORMAL DAY…

• Wake up early to dirty kitchen
• Escape to gym to avoid kitchen
• Come back and rearrange dirty dishes so there’s enough room to cook breakfast
• Rearrange stuff on the table so we can eat breakfast
• Let kids watch just ONE more episode of Arthur while I take a shower
• Never make it to the shower because I walked by the couch
• Finish last episode with the kids
• Yell at everyone frantically to hurry up and get their chores done because we are 30 minutes behind schedule
• Finished prepping for science while the kids clean up because I forgot to do it last week
• Have the kids sit in the kitchen so I can wash dishes, sweep, clean counters, and prep for dinner while I help with grammar, writing, math, and spelling at the same time.
• Eat a healthy lunch of frozen pizza
• Teach geography, science, Spanish, art, and read aloud
• Collapse into a coma on the couch while the kids…actually I have no idea what they were doing…
• Wake up and yell at the kids to get off YouTube and GO OUTSIDE!
• Stumble into the kitchen….open the door and yell at the kids to COME BACK IN and clean up
• Help the kids clean up from lunch, science experiements, art, workbooks, writing, snacks, Sonic cups from the quick run we made for geography…you know, orange sodas for studying Florida….oranges…..Florida….you know….
• Make dinner
• Leave dinner on the table for everyone else while I run kids to dance, soccer, baseball, etc.
• Realize belatedly as I walk out the door that I never got a shower and I’m still wearing my workout clothes….
• Catch up on the 500 emails I got that day while I’m at the practice
• Come home, walk passed the dirty dinner dishes, see my husband on the couch
• Sink into the couch
• Listen to my husband tell me about his day
• See a pillow and blanket left from this morning when the kids were watching Arthur
• Snuggle up on the couch
• Try to remember what my husband was just saying
• zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz