A Day in the Life

A day in the life of a single mom with two kids:

5:30 am Wake to find Y Baby is asleep on my arm. Try to move her without waking her.
6:00 am Alarm goes off. Get up and get in shower.
6:10 am O brings a screaming Y into the bathroom and dumps her unceremoniously onto the floor. “She wants you.”
6:11 am Climb out of half-finished shower to hold baby.
6:15 am Give both girls a bowl of cereal.
6:16 am Force Waba to go outside (or else he will be eating the cereal)
6:17 am Return to shower
6:20 am Back to kitchen to check on girls
6:21 am Back to bathroom to finish getting ready
6:23 am Back to kitchen to see why Y Baby is crying
6:24 am Pick up spoon on floor, put in sink. Find baby a clean spoon.
6:26 am Return to bathroom to try to style now frizzing hair.
6:35 am Return to kitchen. Clean up cereal from table, floor, baby’s pajamas.
6:40 am Wrangle both girls back into the bedroom to get dressed.
6:41 am Try to change Y Baby’s diaper as she crawls squealing across the bed.
6:43 am Ask O to get dressed.
6:44 am Finally get clean diaper on baby
6:45 am Ask O to get dressed. Again.
6:46 am Dress the baby
6:47 am Ask O to get dressed. FOR THE THIRD TIME.
6:51 am Search room for baby’s other shoe that was just on the bed a minute ago
6:52 am Tell O that if she doesn’t get dressed immediately she is going to school in her nightgown
6:53 am Spend 10 minutes trying to dry O’s drama queen tears over being “yelled at”
6:54 am Put baby on the floor so she will stop pulling sister’s hair since sister is already crying
7:03 am Ask O one more time to please get dressed
7:04 am Get self dressed
7:05 am Help O take off nightgown
7:07 am Put baby back on bed so she will stop screaming
7:08 am Finish getting self dressed. Realize O is now naked.
7:09 am Dress O.
7:12 am Heard both girls into the bathroom to brush teeth/wash faces
7:14 am Chase Y Baby down the hall and carry back to bathroom
7:15 am Find O standing in middle of the bathroom
7:16 am Prepare toothbrushes and toothpaste for everyone
7:17 am Tell O to brush her teeth
7:18 am Brush baby’s teeth
7:19 am Tell O to brush her teeth. Again.
7:20 am Baby wipes toothpaste all over Mommy’s shirt
7:21 am Tell O to stop singing to the mirror and brush her teeth
7:22 am Try to wipe toothpaste off shirt
7:23 am Tell O that if she doesn’t brush her teeth NOW Mommy is going to lose it
7:24 am Help O brush her teeth
7:27 am Finish brushing baby’s teeth
7:30 am Wash both girl’s faces
7:34 am Brush O’s hair (Y Baby has no hair)
7:36 am Try to get both girls to head for the van
7:37 am Stop to give Waba food and water
7:39 am Drag girls out to the van
7:40 am Strap baby into car seat
7:41 am Help O get her seat buckled
7:42 am Get in van, open garage door
7:43 am Realize that Waba is still outside
7:44 am Go back in to let the dog in
7:45 am Get back in car, ask baby to please stop screaming as Mommy has returned
7:46 am Pull out of drive way and remind myself that I signed up for this

Yeah, I know I said a day in the life, but you get the point.