Mommy Monday

This felt like a doozy of a Mommy Monday. Remind me to write about a mundane day so you don't think I try too hard.

Enjoy the blessing of waking up before my daughter by eating breakfast in silence and calm

Hear the sound of babble from upstairs

Listen to daughter tell husband to go away

Go upstairs to fetch daughter

Lose my temper trying to dress her

Stomp downstairs and listen to husband wrestle her clothes on

Finally get daughter downstairs to say goodbye to husband

Feed her breakfast

Bribe convince daughter to go to grocery store

Actually find everything I need and get away with a small bill

Return home to bribe watch Sesame Street

Peel and core 18 apples to make apple sauce

Feed daughter a snack

Draw with markers

Convince her it's nap time

Read a nap time book and go downstairs to finish apple sauce

Start canning apple sauce

Hear the sound of babble from upstairs

Go upstairs and sing a song to convince daughter to sleep (IT WORKS!!!)

Start boiling apple peelings and cores for apple jelly

Finish canning apple sauce - Start to boil apple juice into jelly

Juice boils over (twice) and burns sugar water all over my stove top

Two out of four burners are now out of commission - lengthening the time to can the jelly

2 hours later hear the sound of babble from upstairs - still trying to scrap burned sugar water off of stove

Cuddle in mommy and daddy's bed with her multitude of stuffed animals

Keep sneaking away to clean up the kitchen

Snack

Convince daughter to come outside and clean the inside of my car

Give her the umbrella to entertain her for 20 minutes (I love that thing!)

Clean car - even remove coffee stains (husband and sister are no longer allowed to drink coffee in my car)

Listen to intense storm pass right by as I we play in the stroller in the driveway

Make daughter go inside because storm sounds so imminent

More snacks

Do a load of laundry

Call daddy to ask him to bring home a razor blade thingy to save the stove

Daddy walks in the door

Daughter freaks out - Mommy loses her temper again (what a way to start and end the day!)

Watch daddy load up trees he cut down yesterday and move them to the garden

(he's making raised beds for me!!!)

Hang up laundry to dry

Make dinner on the grill because the stove is out out out

Feed everyone

Read a million (okay - more like 6 or 7 - still)

Convince daughter to take a bath

Chase her until she's naked and stick her in the tub

Lose my temper putting her pajamas on

Make daddy take over bed time stories and cuddling

Toastmaster phone call for running Youth Leadership Program next week (~nervous~)

Get laundry off the line and into the dryer after reading a chance of rain overnight

Refuse to make bread for tomorrow's lunch

Watch half a movie - fall asleep on the couch

Nighty-night