We had ziti for dinner and Daniel made cheese toast. David sat on my lap while we ate, his eyes following the food to my mouth and his little uncoordinated hands feebly attempting to snag a piece of toast on the way to my mouth! I gave in and let him chew on my toast.
Wow! he would have kept going as long as I let him!
I am not ready to start him on solid foods–he is only four months old!–but he sure seems to think he’s ready!
I love how he sits in his bouncer seat in the dining room, following your eyes around the room intensely trying to “catch” your gaze. And once he does, his whole face lights up into a huge smile! And after I set him down, he started watching Daniel.
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As I assembled cube-organizers in the kids’ bedrooms, my little Riss hopped inside the cubes and popped up like a wild animal in her burrow, handing me nails while I hammered . . . reminded me of working with my dad as a very young child. I love you, Dad!
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I realized I was in the minority, going to Home Depot with four preschool children. We got all sorts of looks–more than at Target or the grocery store–but the employees were incredibly helpful to us! (“Is there anything else I can get for you?”)
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Tonight at bedtime Mara gasped, “[Gasp!] Mom! We didn’t do our craft yet!”
“It’s okay,” I promised, “that just means we get to do two tomorrow!”
With that answer she was satisfied.
Our day was full from start to finish. We:
- Dropped off a card Mara made for someone from church
- Picked up clothespins for craft at Donna’s
- Dropped off 12-month clothes Carissa has grown out of for someone else
- Did the Target shopping
- Went to Home Depot for electrical tape and a 5-gallon bucket for mixing my homemade laundry detergent
- Picked up groceries at Shoprite
- Came home, despite the kids’ begging to go to Chick-Fil-A or Park with Benches or doing something–anything!–fun (as if riding around in a shopping cart with your other 3 siblings isn’t fun!)
- Put away groceries
- Ate lunch
- Changed lots of diapers
- Nursed the 4-month-old. . . often!
- Folded two loads of laundry
- Put the kids down for naps
- Wrote two blog posts
- Made ziti and salad for dinner
- Ate dinner
- Assembled the two 9-cube organizers (one for each of the kids’ bedroom)
- Put the kids to bed
- Kitchen cleanup
. . . and I still need to shower, make Daniel’s lunch for work, and do a bit of cleanup around the house.
It’s crazy that I used to wonder what stay-at-home moms did with “all their time”!