Week in the Life - Day 3

I'm half way through my first Week In the Life and so far so good. I love looking at everyone else's ordinary days. It makes me feel so connected to people all over the world. Your photos have also inspired me to capture different parts of my day that I didn't even think of -- so thank you.
On to Day 3 . . .

Intruder?
At 7:30am, my day started with quite a scare. My kids all leave for school by 7am so when I heard my front door slam shut at 7:30am I bolted up out of bed. Being the scaredy cat that I am I thought there was an intruder. So I crept downstairs in my PJs and grabbed the first weapon I could find, my daughter's Lacrosse stick. And just like in the horror movies I yell out "Hello, who's there?!" Like the intruder is going to answer. When I got no answer, I proceeded to go around the house checking all the closets and rooms with the lacrosse stick poised for battle. Of course, now I feel like an idiot. But at the time you never know. I find out afterschool that my son left the house later than usual because he got a ride from a friend instead of taking the bus. Geez, scare your mother to death. The rest of my day seems quite boring after that.

We were expecting rain today so I got outside early in the day and photographed some of the flowers in bloom in our yard in Nevada.

Molly sleeping on my lap while I catch up on blogs and email.

Molly laying on my Project Life. Her way of helping.

Molly peeking out behind my computer

In the morning, I take care of all the pets, filling water dishes and checking food. My son, Eric, also has a Russian tortoise named, Yoshi. Meghan has a cute little hamster named Spencer. And you met Molly, the cat, who keeps me company during the day. She especially likes to sit ON me or whatever I am working on.

Before noon, I loaded and ran the dishwasher which I do daily with three kids.

The kids get out early from school on Wednesdays so my daughter and I went and did some birthday shopping for her. We went to Ross and she found some great things. We had fun trying on really high heels. She's turning 13 so she got a kick out of this. Of course, I wouldn't buy them for her though. Mean Mommy.

Then I went to my weekly Physical Therapy appointment. My daughter was with me from the shopping trip and took this photo.

After PT, Meghan asked if we could stop at Starbucks and get a treat since it was close to her birthday. Boy, she sure is working this birthday thing. I caved.

I put a load of laundry in around 5pm when we finally made it home. For a stay-at-home mom, I feel like I'm rarely home.

At 5:30pm, Meghan's Grandma picked her up to go to dinner and more birthday shopping.

At 6:15pm, Dad came to get the boys for their evening with him.

While the kids are visiting with their Dad, I ate another exciting dinner -- this time it was bagels and cream cheese. I seem to like to eat breakfast for dinner when I'm on my own.

After Meghan got home from her 2nd round of bday shopping, she modeled her new outfits. And then to my delight hung out in my room and talked and played me some of her music. Love when she's in the mood to hang out with her Mom. Then she had to do some homework.

Even my 18 year old was in the mood to hang out with his Mom. Here he is lounging in my bedroom chair chatting with his Mom. Hanging out with the kids today was definitely the highlight of the day for me.

And good old Molly is never far away. In fact, she sleeps with me every night.

Well, I transferred the wash to the dryer but never got around to folding it. Luckily, they're towels and will keep until tomorrow. Just enough time to straighten the kitchen, read a little bit before bed (a must) and then off to sleep around 12:30am.

See you tomorrow.