Tuesday

6:30 am -- wake and shower. make coffee.
7:15 am -- girls wake. dress, make their breakfast, feed breakfast, clean up breakfast, load the car for school.
8:45am -- leave for school.
9:05 am -- leave carpool at Meg's preschool and head directly to Tot Gymnastics with Kate.
9:30am -- play with Kate -- and only Kate! -- at Tot Gymnastics. leave smiling.
10:15 am -- leave tot gymnastics and run one quick errand. (ie -- stop at Publix.)
11:30 am -- return home to unload shopping and quickly regroup.
12:00 pm -- pick up Meg.
12:15 pm -- arrive home. make lunch, feed lunch, clean up lunch.
1:00 pm -- Kate down for a nap. Meg either (a) naps too (b) convinces me to let her skip a nap -- and I oblige if she seems like she can handle it OR (c) we have a friend over for an hour or two after lunch. Mom recharges with about 30 minutes of down time at this point in the day.
3:00 pm -- everyone is up, friends are gone, naps are complete. regroup. snack.
3:15 pm -- dress for Meg's dance class.
3:30 pm -- load up and head to dance.
4:30 pm -- leave dance class after having enjoyed 45 minutes of adult conversation with the other dance moms.
5:00 pm -- regroup and keep Meg from having any pre dinner snacks. make dinner. check email. return phone calls. go through the mail.
6:00pm -- eat dinner, clean up dinner. clean up the living room (with the help of my big girl Meg). load everyone up and go upstairs for the bedtime routine.
6:15 pm -- bath. jammies.
6:45 pm -- a little pre-bed playtime upstairs while mommy puts away laundry, changes sheets, works on getting some kind of stain out of some piece of clothing, or tidy's up the day's mess.
7:00 pm -- stories. rocking. goodnight, Kate.
7:25 pm -- more stories. chatting. goodnight Meg.
8:00 pm -- mom returns downstairs and writes a blog about how exhausting her day was.


Whew. Goodnight Mommy.