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A Day In The Life Of Rainy

RainyLondonFog

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This morning I woke up and saw Slumberfreeze off to work around 6:30 am. I had time to make a cup of tea (which I haven't had any of yet -lol!) I made a lemon ginger herbal tea this morning. I had time to put a load of laundry in the washer, do my makeup and straighten up the toys in the living room before at 7:00, when a kid I'm babysitting was being dropped off. Our kids will be in bed awhile longer so I'm going try to get my devotional done, prep our daughter's school work, straighten up the kitchen before they are up. Today is looking like it might be a bit busy, but I'm doing to try to post throughout the day some updates of how a day in Rainy's shoes has been. We have a school to do, grocery shopping, we were invited to do a pinata at a friend's house, my brother is coming over to help me take some stuff to the dump and then our oldest has sports this afternoon. Sometime in this I hope to bring in the storage totes of winter clothes and put away our summer clothes. So that's looking like my plan so far, hope you all have a blessed day! :)
 
So far we've done breakfast and a good amount of school. I think we're going to take a break soon and doing our grocery shopping and do a little more school when we get home. I believe it was @FollowingHim2 that told me about math seeds and reading eggs? Our school just provided us with the logins for those and they are really cool!! :D
 
We use Reading Eggs! My youngest has taken a long time getting the hang of phonics. We love it. :)
 
Conclusion of my day -

After posting my last message I realized I left my spare infant car seat in Slumber's car, so with only one seat and two toddlers we weren't able to leave to go anywhere. Which in itself was somewhat of a blessing. I think the Lord provided me an exit out of a playdate and grocery shopping. He knows everything about us, and knew that I was feeling a little like Biblo ("I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.") And that being able to stay home would probably be a good thing for me. So instead of play dates and pinatas; lots of laundry was done, and fall/winter clothes were brought in and put away (well... mostly..), children were fed Beef Barley soup for lunch and my brother came over and helped do our little dump run. I dropped our oldest son at soccer practice, Slumber took our daughter to her practice, I took baby grocery shopping and we all met at the same time for dinner (one pan cheater skillet lasagna) before Slumber had to leave for Thursday night prayer. It's been a good day. And grocery shopping was enjoyable with just Boo (our nickname for baby). I found out through babysitting that doing errands with more than one toddler is crazy! Our kids are all spaced out so I've never experienced it before I started babysitting! Y'all with multiple littles are like super heros in my book!

Well that's pretty much how a day in my shoes looks! I'd love to hear more about each one of your days!

I'm going to go and put away that last bit of laundry and then put the baby to bed. I did get a new book today, so I'm looking forward to some quiet time and digging in that a little bit. Hope you all have a blessed night! :)
 
windblown said:
I'd love to be switching our seasonal clothes over. But alas it's going to be 95 here today. :mad:
What book did you get?
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Now that's just too hot. I would have that face too! This morning when I was doing errands it was 47, it probably won't be above 70 today. Hope your heat relents and you get some cool weather soon!

The 7th book in the Poldark series :D
 
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RainyLondonFog said:
I found out through babysitting that doing errands with more than one toddler is crazy!
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LOL!!! Yes, yes it is!

I secretly love days when we had planned to go out but those plans fall through. It sort of feels like I got a whole lot of extra hours added to my day to get things done at home.
And I hear you on car seats, we've got three vehicles and Samuel often heads out with 1-3 children, and I never know which vehicle will have the car seat that I need in it!
How great that you got to sort out clothes! Do you find that really therapeutic? I need to do that here too because Peter is growing out of the size he's in, and Caleb has way too many clothes in his drawer, most of which don't fit him anymore. We're just coming into some beautiful spring weather here, but we can still get snow so it's not time to change over winter to summer.
 
FollowingHim2 said:
LOL!!! Yes, yes it is!

I secretly love days when we had planned to go out but those plans fall through. It sort of feels like I got a whole lot of extra hours added to my day to get things done at home.
And I hear you on car seats, we've got three vehicles and Samuel often heads out with 1-3 children, and I never know which vehicle will have the car seat that I need in it!
How great that you got to sort out clothes! Do you find that really therapeutic? I need to do that here too because Peter is growing out of the size he's in, and Caleb has way too many clothes in his drawer, most of which don't fit him anymore. We're just coming into some beautiful spring weather here, but we can still get snow so it's not time to change over winter to summer.
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It's so crazy! How are shopping carts where you are? The ones here in town only have one spot for one kid at the front, unless you want to drive the big crazy hard to steer carts (but only one store in my town has those anyway.)

I totally get what you mean about the added extra hours. Yes it did feel therapeutic and it was good to have that extra time because it took waaaay longer than I thought to sort the clothes. It was a little hard putting away the baby's clothes and knowing he'll be so much bigger next year.

Isn't it crazy how it always feels like you have to sort the little ones clothes? Its crazy how quickly they grow in such a short period of time!
 
RainyLondonFog said:
How are shopping carts where you are? The ones here in town only have one spot for one kid at the front, unless you want to drive the big crazy hard to steer carts (but only one store in my town has those anyway.)
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We don't have shopping carts, we have shopping trolleys ;).
Every supermarket, and most big shops, have any type of trolley you need.
There's the normal ones with one seat that folds down for a toddler.
There's ones with an infant seat that is reclined for baby.
Infant seat and toddler seat together.
2 infant seats together.
2 toddler seats together (these are far more rare, but absolutely magic when you find them!)
And there's ones with a cradle type thing that sits up top that you can put your infant capsule in so that you don't have to disturb baby if they're asleep in the car, you just unclip the seat and put it on the trolley.
Note that none of these trolleys are any different in size at all, and all trolleys are hard to steer lol, it must be in how they make them, they purposefully do something to at least one wheel so that it always wants to go it's own way!


RainyLondonFog said:
Isn't it crazy how it always feels like you have to sort the little ones clothes? Its crazy how quickly they grow in such a short period of time!
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I know! Peter is actually growing really slowly (in a completely healthy way), and it makes me really appreciate him staying so little so long. I'm really enjoying him being a baby and watching him slowly grow and develop. He is so different! Does everything in a very unique 'Peter' way lol.
 
RainyLondonFog said:
Isn't it crazy how it always feels like you have to sort the little ones clothes? Its crazy how quickly they grow in such a short period of time!
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At one point I had 4 kids ages 4, 3, 2 and newborn. I felt like sorting out clothes and boxing and labeling and laundry was an insane amount of my day. Now I look back on it with fond memories. Our are 13, 12, 10, and 9 right now and how times have changed.
 
I need to get into the attic and pull out the winter stuff soon, and get out the next size for the baby girl.
Yup to all the above. Lol
With the youngest up on her hands and knees and pulling up on furniture already it seems this year has flown.
With young children the days are long but the years are short.
 
Girl my days can be a hot mess! Typically this is how it goes
8/8:30am I'm just getting home from work. I have to shower and settle in for my "night".
9:30Am im usually am wound down enough to go to sleep
2pm I wake up and I go pick the kids up from school.
3:15pm we get home where we do homework, unpack backpacks, talk about the day, and I start getting myself ready for work. (Now that I'm in school I will do homework with the kids)
4:30 I'm starting dinner
5:30 we usually eat and then I clean up the kitchen, get clothes set out for the next day, backpacks repacked, and get anything else ready that my mom may need that night and morning for the kids. I also get my sons swim stuff ready because my mom takes him to swim team for me Monday Wednesday and Thursday if I work
6pm my mom comes over to stay with the kids and I leave for work. 7pm-7:30am I'm working.

Being a single mother is absolutely exhausting, but like I told someone on here, if I had to do it again I would. I chose life. Had I not divorced, I may not be alive to share these moments with my children.

I repeat this on days I work. Days I don't work we snuggle like crazy on the couch, laugh at things that really are not funny, we watch some tv, read books, go for walks. We just spend as much time together as we can.
 
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