This morning Em woke up first. I heard him on the monitor yelling MAAHHH! MAAMAAA! I went to the kitchen to grab 2 sippy cups of pink milk, grabbed Em and got back in bed to snuggle. While snuggling I begin to think of all the things I could be doing to get ahead of the day. I make out a to-do list in my head until Em is done with his milk and I jump up to make the beds and get myself dressed.

Once the list is checked off it is time to come downstairs. D and I take turns making breakfast; usually he handles most of the food stuff while I get the kids ready. At-man now demands to dress himself and I have to hand it to him, he is pretty good at picking out his own clothes. I have only had to bust out the veto power one time so far. Em gets a diaper change, email gets checked, the news paper is retrieved and then we are ready to eat.

At-man wiggles around in his chair, pushes the food in a circle on his plate and after about 10 minutes asks to be excused. Once he leaves Em pretty much throws in the towel as well. It’s off to get Em dressed and as was the case today, get ready to go to grand mommy’s house.

With the boys gone I take a last minute to check over the house and head to the office to help out D for the morning. I spend the next 4 hours invoicing clients and catching up on phone calls. After I eat lunch at my desk I figure that I still have time to run to the grocery store before I told my MIL I would return for the guys. I grab my list, bid the guys farewell and race around the HT playing my own version of Supermarket Sweep. I finished up so fast that I ran by the salon and had my brows waxed and still made it back in time to unload the groceries.

At-man usually wants to stay with grand mommy while I get Em to sleep so I grab another sippy of milk, put Em in the car and head out. I drive him around, stop for gas and occasionally even a latte at the drive thru while he drinks until he passes out. As soon as his little head hits the side of his car seat I head home where I carry him up to his crib and race to get all my no-kid time things complete.

I usually start off by checking my email, voice mail and changing my clothes. I grab some water and hop on the treadmill. Today I went 7 miles, got a quick shower and Em was already awake making cute little baby talk in his crib. Em has this thing where he has to play with his Thomas table for about 30-45 minutes after his nap. No diaper, nothing to drink…nothing but trains will make him happy. I call to summons At-man home and he and I begin making pumpkin muffins.

While many people think of pumpkin muffins only in the fall, At-man could eat them every day of his life. We make huge batches in the Kitchen-aid and freeze them. They are great when school is in because you can throw one in a lunch box with a yogurt and a piece of fruit and Ta-da! Lunch is ready to go! Today we made 3 batches and then it was on to eggplant parmesan.

Somewhere between the parm, the muffins and brewing some fresh tea (we are in the south you know) I got a call from the office that a call I was expecting finally came, and I had to return it ASAP. I ran into the living room to bust out the magic weapon…Elmo. Thanks to the little red fuzzy one I got through the entire call with hardly a peep and was putting dinner on the table when D got home.

Now, the bigger the boys get the more difficult I find it to attempt such things as the mall without the aid of another adult. It is possible but only if Em stays in his stroller and I feel bad when I have to make him do that. It is for this reason that I got it in my head that we ALL needed to go the mall after dinner so I could pick up some pictures I had dropped off yesterday when I was there with my mother in law and niece. We ate, cleaned the kitchen (I cannot leave until there is no sign we had dinner) picked up the pictures and got ice cream for the boys and some much needed coffee for ourselves.

Back home we got the guys in their pj’s, and once again dolled out the milks. I emptied out the dishwasher, washer and dryer and re-loaded them all, then went in to watch about 10 minutes of Sky High with At-man. If you have not seen this movie I highly recommend it. At-man LOVES it. He has made us watch it a zillion times; even his baby sitters know every word by heart. I took At-man up to bed and had the first few minutes of down time, other than sitting in the car for 5 minutes, since lunch.

With the boys out for the count I snuck back downstairs, folded the laundry, wiped the kitchen down and cleaned out Phinneas’ bowl (our fish). I have taken to keeping my laptop on the kitchen counter besides Phinny so I can easily access recipes and it was during the bowl cleaning that I thought about writing a list of one ordinary day. I wasn’t sure if things would always be like this or not so I thought they might enjoy thinking back on we spent our days. I started to type, thought about moving over to the couch but then decided that when I finally sit I will probably turn into a human puddle and that isn’t good for writing. So here I stand, getting ready to finish up this post. I will probably go wash my face incase I fall asleep on the couch before I make it upstairs. D usually doesn’t go up until 1 or 2am so as you can see, neither of us are running with both oars in the water most of the time. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I am not actually stupid, just sleep deprived.

Other than the activity, today was good. I heard from a friend I haven’t talked to in years, I feel like I accomplished a lot, I can’t get a shirt I tried on at American Eagle out of my head, might have to go treat myself for my birthday…oh yea, and Lance Bass has announced he is actually gay. As if anyone on the planet wasn’t sure about it. Gas is 3.00 a gallon and I have to hear about Lance and his boyfriend. Do you think his mother saw this coming when she named him?

Anyway, I know we are all busy. I just wanted to give the guys an idea of what things where like when they were little peanuts, and maybe a little insight into why mommy always seems like she’s somewhere between lost and insane.

I hope this clears things up.