Opus 385 - Day 26

Your Week in Great Detail

Another exciting blog journal entry.

Monday
5:30 am - Wake up
6:15 am - Leave for school
6:35 am - Arrive at school, start prepping for the day
7:00 am - Teach Jazz Band
8:00 am - Teach Brass Class
8:55 am - Teach Percussion Class
9:45 am - Teach Woodwinds Class
10:35 am - Teach Concert Band
11:25 am - Teach Symphonic Band
12:10 pm - Start prepping for the next day. Get interrupted when alerted of a problem with the high school band's spaghetti dinner (that was held at our school). Spent some time fixing the problem, all the while thinking this was why I stopped teaching high school band.
2:00 pm - Finally left the school and drove to Walmart to get some Claritin-D (note to Meth users: Thank you for using cold medicines to make meth. Because of you I have to go to Walmart every 10 days!)
2:30 pm - Arrived at Walmart, bought medicine
3:00 pm - Arrived at home, helped Jason get the kids up from their nap. Played with the kids.
5:00 pm - Asked Joshua if he wanted chicken nuggets or tacos for dinner. He said tacos, so I made the tacos.
5:20 pm - Ate Dinner
5:45 pm - Jason and I cleaned the dinner dishes.
6:00 pm - Went to the park with Jason and the kids.
6:45 pm - Left the park
7:00 pm - Had Family Home Evening
7:30 pm - Bedtime routine (read the previous post for more details)
8:00 pm - Finished dishes, ate ice cream (seriously, I nightly ritual since my pregnancy - thank goodness for 1/2 fat and fat free ice cream!), watched TV with Jason.
9:00 pm - Got ready for bed and crashed.

Tuesday
6:00 am - Wake up
7:00 am - Leave for school
7:20 am - Arrive at school, start prepping
8:00 am - Teach (same as Monday)
12:10 pm - Prep for the next day
1:00 pm - Leave school, drive home
1:20 pm - Arrive home, do some housework, actually have a moment or two to relax
3:30 pm - Get a call from my piano students' mother asking if I can push lessons back a 1/2 hour
3:35 pm - Jason and I get the kids, give them snacks, play with them
4:00 pm - Teach lessons
5:30 pm - Finish lessons, make a quick dinner (one of those Homestyle Bakes)
6:00 pm - Clean up after dinner
6:15 pm - Go to the park with the kids
7:00 pm - Leave the park
7:10 pm - Bedtime routine (including a bath this time)
8:00 pm - Finished dishes, ate ice cream, watched TV with Jason.
9:00 pm - Got ready for bed and crashed.

Wednesday
You already got to hear all about Wednesday :)

Thursday
6:00 am - Wake up
7:00 am - Leave for school
7:20 am - Arrive at school, start prepping
8:00 am - Teach (same as Monday)
12:10 pm - Prep for the next day
1:30 pm - Leave school, drive home
1:50 pm - Arrive home, do some housework, actually have a moment or two to relax
3:15 pm - Teach lessons (Jason gets the kids from their nap during this time - Lissa sat on my lap during most of my lessons)
4:45 pm - Finish lessons, start dinner (Chicken and Stuffing)
5:45 pm - Eat dinner
6:10 pm - Clean up after dinner
6:15 pm - Go to the park with the kids
7:00 pm - Leave the park
7:10 pm - Bedtime routine (with a bath this time)
8:00 pm - Finished dishes, ate ice cream, watched TV with Jason.
9:00 pm - Got ready for bed and crashed.

Friday
5:30 am - Wake up
6:15 am - Leave for school
6:35 am - Arrive at school, start prepping
7:00 am - Teach Jazz Band
8:00 am - Teach (same as Monday)
12:10 pm - Prep for the next day
1:30 pm - Leave school, drive home
1:50 pm - Arrive home, do some housework, actually have a moment or two to relax
3:00 pm - Jason and I get the kids from their nap, give them a snack
4:00 pm - Leave for the library and Costco
5:00 pm - Joshua throws a fit in the car at Costco because he doesn't want to come in. Jason stays out with him while Lissa and I go shopping. Lissa enjoyed the samples - waffles and yogurt.
5:15 pm - Go pick up some food at Burger King
5:30 pm - Arrive at Grandma and Grandpa's house, eat dinner, let the kids play, hang out with Grandma, Uncle Matt, with appearances by Aunt Emily and Uncle Dave
7:00 pm - Leave Grandma and Grandpa's house
7:30 pm - Arrive home, bedtime routine
8:00 pm - Finished dishes, ate ice cream, watched TV with Jason.
9:00 pm - Got ready for bed and crashed.

Saturday
7:30 am - Wake up, shower, make a double batch of waffles
8:00 am - Jason and I get the kids up and dressed
8:15 am - Enjoy a great breakfast with the family
9:00 am - Clean up, play with kids
9:45 am - Go to Old Navy to return some leggings that don't match Lissa's outfits, return stuff at Walmart, shop at Walmart (I found Lissa's Halloween costume for a great deal too)
11:15 am - Arrive home, make lunch, enjoy lunch with the family (bagel sandwiches, grapes, and chips)
11:45 am - Clean up lunch dishes
12:00 pm - Go to the park with the kids (yes, we do this a lot. Have I mentioned that our house is small and I have two very energetic kids??)
12:45 pm - Leave the park
1:00 pm - Put the kids down for a nap
1:05 pm - Reorganize the hall closet upstairs
1:20 pm - Start reorganizing the kitchen cupboards
1:30 pm - Start watching the BYU football game, continue with the cupboards during commercial breaks and halftime
3:30 pm - Get the kids up from their nap (they got a good nap in, yay!), give them a snack, play with them
5:00 pm - Cook a Papa Murphy's pizza (I bought several and froze them when they were having their $3 for a large deal)
5:30 pm - Eat dinner
6:00 pm - Clean up dinner dishes
6:15 pm - Go to the park again
7:00 pm - Leave the park
7:10 pm - Bedtime routine (including a bath this time)
8:00 pm - Finished dishes, ate ice cream, watched TV with Jason.

Sunday
7:30 am - Wake up, shower
8:00 am - Get the kids up and dressed
8:15 am - Eat breakfast (kids ate waffles - I freeze the leftovers then we put them in the toaster when they want them - Jason had oatmeal, I had Cheerios- like every morning)
8:45 am - Watched Mickey Mouse Clubhouse with Joshua, then played with the kids
9:15 am - Gave the kids a snack
9:30 am - Watched Music and the Spoken Word with the kids
10:00 am - Finished getting all of the church stuff ready
10:15 am - Dressed the kids in their church clothes
10:30 am - Left for church - a little early today, I guess the kids moved faster than usual
10:35 am - Arrived at church early
11:00 am - Sacrament Meeting. Good kids, good talks
12:10 pm - Played piano in Primary
2:00 pm - Drove home with Jason and the kids
2:15 pm - Ate a snack/lunch
2:30 pm - Put the kids down for a nap, took a nap myself (sadly, it took about an hour to fall asleep)
4:30 pm - Woke up, kids were awake, got them with Jason
4:45 pm - Played with the kids, packed the diaper bag for dinner with the Stevens cousins
5:20 pm - Left for Cousin Nicole's house
5:30 pm - Arrived at Nicole's house, enjoyed dinner with Nicole, Lynnette, Chris, and Kate.
7:20 pm - Arrive home, saw the kids' new friend, James, outside. He ran in to his house and brought out some cookies he made for Lissa and Joshua (so sweet!). Came inside, let the kids eat a cookie, the kids helped Jason take the garbage to the curb, Joshua was hyper from the cookie within seconds.
7:40 pm - Bedtime routine
8:00 pm - Started working on the blog, hope to be in bed before 9:30pm