One Single Day

After several frustrating attempts at writing his autobiography Mark Twain finally found success when he threw the planning factor out the window and wrote only about what appealed to him at that particular moment for only as long as it continued to appeal to him.  This year my mom, my grandma, and I are using the Mark Twain approach in working together on a personal history project.  Every month we pick a topic, I'll be making recording mine here... 

One Single Day--- looks like this:

7 AM:  wake up, feed Bebe, sing, play, snuggle with Bebe, open curtains and greet the blindingly bright "happy day" together, change Bebe's diaper, hand her orange plastic doggy to chew when Louise flies in with bedhead to say good morning, get Bebe dressed while Louise makes "a tunnel" over both of us
8 AM:  send Louie to the bathroom, use the facilities while small people happily barge in, oohh and ahh over Louise clever choosing of an outfit that matches Bebe's, comb hair, talk about eggs, birdies, and worms, go downstairs and get cereal and juice on the table, check email, wash, slice and freeze excess turnip greens from the CSA, Curly appears, back upstairs to open her curtains, get her started on getting ready, get more juice and rolls out, start Super Why, make an Instant Breakfast, take Bebe upstairs for a nap
9 AM:  take a bath, shave, use glorious peony scented exfoliating scrub, get dressed and ready, mentally list everything that needs to happen today, water mug
10 AM:  comb girls hair, get snacks of blueberries and granola bars, fold a load of whites, send girls off to get ready for swimming, assemble all swimming necessities, Bebe is up, get her, help Lou get her "x" settled on her tutu swimsuit, ditto Curly, change Bebe, nurse Bebe, 3 handfuls of goody balls for lovely morning, family prayer, off to swimming, Louise picks a flower on the way in and freezes, screaming in horror when a bug ends up on her hand, save her, recover
11 AM:  girls swim, play with Bebe, call mom to remind of personal history project assignment, get girls dry, clothed and loaded back in car, mitigate a back-seat conflict, arrive home and follow thru with consequences, Curly sits in the corner humming
12 PM:  get the girls showered, dressed, hair combed, etc, "how many tiny steps equal one giant on?" discuss, also, "get those badboy's (and by badboy's I mean clothes) on" sparks a giggly progression "those aren't bad-boys, they're bad-girls!"  "they're not bad-girls, they're good-girls, like Cinderella!"  and then get on lunch.  "You are my sunshine"   sandwiches (nutella and jam) strawberries and milk for the girls, sweet potato puffs for Bebe, leftover ravioli, peaches and tomatoes for me, load and start the dishwasher, set up "Tangled" for a quiet time show
1 PM:  Change Bebe's diaper, nurse her and put her down for a nap, relax and read for a minute, come back downstairs to find they've opted to snuggle up together and Curly is reading aloud, also Louie has cleared her lunch dishes, more goody balls!
2 PM:  switch laundry, fold load of towels, pre-heat oven, start pre-soak load soaking, get sweet potatoes baking for Bebe, start dinner: chop 3 sweet potatoes, thinly slice 1 onion, dice a big bunch of CSA turnips, saute all in butter, garlic and ginger, wilt in big bunch sliced bok choy, add stock and miso soup mix (tofu picked out), start slow simmer, get chicken marinating in soy sauce and spices
3 PM:  snack with the girls (a Drumstick ice cream cone) and finish Tangled with them, "finally, they're gonna kiss!" and then we dance, call Mammy to see if she's become a doctor at Louie's request after she catches an incidental kick in the face during a rough-housing episode, chat for minute, then Bebe's up, navigate the circus happening on my bed to retrieve, change and play with Bebe, Curly reads us something in Japanese (I'm completely at her mercy, have no idea what these kids books actually say), take Bebe down and plop her in her exersaucer which she finds very exciting while I pull out her sweet potatoes and put in the chicken, blow raspberries at/with Bebe
4 PM:  play peek-a-boo with Bebe, check soup, start rice cooker, 27 fling boogie to clear a path, get Bebe some toys to chew/examine/babble at, think about doing a bunch of other things but play with her instead, nurse a minute, unload dishwasher, Daddy's home! shred chicken, toss in soup to finish simmering, discover that rice cooker was not plugged in, try that again, chat
5 PM:  go upstairs to see the "blanket" the girls made in our room, it's huge, take a picture, do a story, herd everyone down to dinner, insisted everyone each "gis-gusting yams"
6 PM:  hose down Bebe, get sandals etc on to play outside, change and jammify Bebe
7 PM:  bed time!  nurse and sing to Bebe, snuggle and sing to Curly and Lou
8 PM:  reload dishwasher, start preparing Mother Goose Time: cut out craft, gather scissors, markers, glue, calendar boards, little chairs, computer and music, review lesson, tidy living room, sweep floor, wipe table and set everything out