A Saturday in the Life

7:11am: Wake up, snuggle with hubby in bed for a few while waiting for the familiar waking sounds on the baby monitor

7:25am: Hubby is kind enough to get baby from bed. Brings her into our room, family bed snuggle for a time period that is never long enough.

7:40am: Shower – sans baby, which is always nice. Baby gets a pancake breakfast from daddy.

8:10am: Join daddy and baby for some coffee and morning chat.

8:25am: Clean up baby from breakfast. Realize that there is still bleach cleanser from previous night’s cleaning on baby’s booster seat tray . . . and she has just eaten her entire breakfast from said tray . . . PANIC ensues.

8:26am: Run upstairs with baby in arms and report bleach discovery to hubby. Hubby explains that the tray was rinsed prior to feeding . . . but agrees that there is still bleach on the tray. Panic continues. Meanwhile, baby is blissfully unaware and playing with her toys in parents’ bedroom.

8:27am: Call poison control. Report bleach discovery.

8:29am: Poison control conversation ends, as does the panic. PC people inform us that babies must ingest QUITE a bit of bleach before problems occur. No harm done. PC says that, even if baby were to get sick later it the day, it would most likely NOT be because of the bleachy breakfast tray. They also inform us that this is not the first time the have heard of this type of situation. We are not bad parents, and the baby is fine. Calm comes over the house. Baby continues to play peacefully.

8:35am: Dress baby, change a poopy diaper, pack diaper bag for the day’s outing.

8:50am: Daddy makes mommy coffee-to-go, packs baby and bags into the car. Mommy is VERY grateful for this and is able to casually jump into the car.

9:00am: Leave the house. Headed to Newnan, GA for a day full of football watching with my parents. Baby snoozes on the drive.

10:00am: Arrive in Newnan, but not at my parents’ house yet. A quick stop at Rockin’ B’s Antiques provides mommy with a fabulous new wooden chair to be used in her photography business. A little touch-up might be needed, but otherwise the chair is in great shape and is only $12.00. Score.

10:30am: Arrive at parents’ house. Unload baby and bags. Eat breakfast (again) with the family.

11:00am: Football watching ensues, beginning with pregame shows. Baby plays and plays with grandaddy and grandma.

12:00pm: GT/Maryland kicks off. Daddy becomes engrossed in his game. Mommy changes another poopy diaper.

12:45pm: Mommy and granddaddy fix Meg lunch and feed her while daddy watches his game.

1:30 pm: Baby goes down for a nap. Mommy snoozes on the couch for 30 minutes.

2:30pm: Mommy makes lunch for herself and daddy. Lunch is eaten and football watching continues.

2:50pm: Grandaddy gets baby up from her nap. She is well rested and ready to play. Mommy dresses her in her #7 Matthew Stafford jersey in preparation for the Georgia/Tennessee game.

3:00pm: Daddy’s day is over, and the game stunk. Sorry Daddy.

3:30pm: UGA/TN kick off. Mommy changes ANOTHER poopy diaper.

4:00pm: Mommy shares some chicken wings with baby, who parades around the living room asking for food AND asking you to show your belly. Her life and laughter are a welcome distraction from the terrible UGA game that is on the TV.

5:00pm: Mommy and granddaddy start talking about how the last time UGA won the SEC championship, they had 2 losses. The game is NOT going well. Baby plays. Daddy watches the game with mommy and granddaddy (and is probably secretly happy that UGA is losing).

6:00pm: Mommy starts to discuss what baby should have for dinner. The Georgia game goes to into the toilet. Mommy plays with her camera and starts taking lots of pictures of the playing baby.

6:30pm: Grandaddy feeds baby dinner. Mommy sits and watches, enjoying the view. Daddy packs up our things.

7:15pm: Say our good-byes and depart Newnan. Baby falls asleep in the car. Daddy and mommy chat on the drive home about various and sundry things, mommy enjoying the conversation very much.

8:20pm: Arrive back home. Scoop baby up from her car seat and transport her to her bed. She remains asleep (and Mommy thanks God for that blessing). Immediately get onto the computer to see what has been going on all day. Read emails, check Flickr. Begin to work on photo editing that needs to get done ASAP.

9:45pm: Break to write this Blog.

Maybe I’ll go to sleep around 11:00 . . . or maybe I’ll stay up editing. Either way, it will be a great end to a great day (minus all the sucky football).