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Ha, I didn't want to say typical day because there really is none. Some days
we are out all day running errands, others we are in. What is typical is
that my children "always" find something interesting and intriguing to do
regardless of where we are or what we are doing.
Tuesday March 28, 2000
*wake up to dh's voice on the answering machine saying wake up I need to talk
to you <g> at 6:30. Get up talk to him and go back to bed. He calls back
again at 7 am, talk to him and go back to bed again. Finally get back up at
8 or 8:30. Jared is trying to get us all up (they all were in my bed this
am) and makes zach a duplo airplane
*kids eat apples
*kids build marble run toy
*kids eat cereal
*I go to office, drink coffee, read email, work on some business reports
kids read books. jessica cant' find a couple of bob books so she starts on a
new one. I help her out a bit.
*kids see cricket in house. set up elaborate "trap" to catch it. tie wash
cloth filled with grass to a string which is attached to a small bug cage.
They put the kitchen chairs all around them and hide under them with the bait
sitting out in the open. cricket never comes back out. mom takes pictures <g>
*zach plays cars
*kids put on cowboy boots and hats and put on a song/dance themed after toy
story 2 and their family
*zach and jared play lego and duplo
*jared runs around trying to scare kids, they decide to make scary masks.
Get construction paper as me to cut out eye holes. They punch holes and
bring string for me to tie onto mask. jareds mask is white, he gets to be a
ghost. jess and zach are boogeymans with black masks. run around and play
this for awhile.
*kids find rocks in the yard and wash them in a bowl in the kitchen. never
knew what that was all about as I was working in the office.
*me empty dishwasher, put away load of laundry, start load, fix lunch. kids
read more books while I clean bathrooms since I am having friends come over
to scrapbook tomorrow. jump in the shower and get out of jammies at 1 pm!
*kids decide to paint pictures. zach is a little disappointed that his
pictures aren't quite as "good" as Jessica's although they are very good to
me. He has a bit of trouble with hand coordination (perfectly reasonable for
his age) trying to do fine artwork. I can still tell what he is painting
never the less. jared is proud of his grey blob LOL.
*I go back into the office to do more paper work, take and make calls. talk
to mom about some business (mom and dad retired contractors) and about jareds
upcoming birthday
*kids run around outside for awhile, climb trees. weather a bit cold and
cloudy they seem to enjoy staying inside today.
*eat bowls of kiwi
*start dinner. albondigas soup (meatball)
*jess finds a counting book we put together, she tells me she doesn't need it
anymore since she knows how to count and proceeds to do so. She said that
the boys can use it.
*kids decide to clean the entire house counters, walls, furniture and windows
with wet rags and towels. they spend easily a couple of hours doing this!!
jess takes a break to paint another picture, a beautiful painting of one of
our blooming fruit trees. zach tells me he loves to clean!!
*take more calls check on zach and he is emptying out and cleaning my
cupboard!! I am amazed at his zealousness as he absolutely hates to pick up.
guess cleaning is another thing altogether for him.
*jared finally takes a break to nurse and falls asleep at 5:30! kids snack
on carrots waiting for me to serve the soup. zach still cleaning, standing
on my island cleaning the ceiling fan and light.
*wake jared up so that I can feed kids, he's not to happy crying a bit.
Decides he'll eat dinner after all. I eat with kids.
*zach decides to clean some more and heads off to his bedroom with his rags
in hand.
*dad comes home, kids and I compete for dads attention as soon as he comes
home <g>. dad and I need to talk business, kids need to show dad all their
new tricks.
*feed dad, we all have another bowl of soup. dad and I put together a bid
for upcoming project.
*zach and jared (and me) vacuum their room since they gleefully crushed
cereal on the floor earlier today. jessie takes a shower. I do another load
of laundry.
*kids settle down temporarily while dad makes calls.
*everyone wrestles around on the bed
*have a snack, cuddle, dad heads off to bed
*boys make duplo airplanes and throw them through the air watching them fly
and crash
*kids fall asleep on the couch next to me (they wanted to sleep on the couch
tonight) around 9:30 (much earlier than last night when they layed there and
jessica narrated stories until 11:30!
*all is quiet and its 10:15
*another day is done : )

I am not usually this busy in my office, depends on the work schedule. We
had played and ran around for three days in a row late last week so
yesterday and today I had things to take care of, and tomorrow is a play day
with company coming over.
dd 6 1/2, ds 5, ds 3
Kathy