A Day in the Life

5:30 a.m. – Alarm clock rings. Husband needs to leave for early morning at the office.

5:45 a.m. – OBB jumps into bed with me.

6:05 a.m. – Head downstairs. Get coffee. Check e-mail.

6:20 a.m. – Husband kisses me goodbye.

6:40 a.m. – Get dressed.

6:55 a.m. – Wake up Baby Girl. Change her. Feed her.

7:20 a.m. – Eat something for breakfast.

7:30 a.m. – Dress OBB, give medicine, brush teeth and hair.

7:40 a.m. - Dress Baby Girl.

7:55 a.m – Give Baby Girl nebulizer treatment.

8:10 a.m. – Put on make up. Fix Hair.

8:20 a.m. – Start loading everyone into car.

8:45 a.m. – Arrive at church for VBS.

9:00 a.m. – Mom arrives at church, something pops in her knee.

9:05 a.m. - See Mom at church door, crying and in pain. Get her a wheelchair.

9:10 a.m. – Make arrangements for sub for my VBS class, for sub for Mom's VBS class, and for OBB to be taken home for lunch with a friend afterward.

9:15 a.m. – Leave for emergency room with Mom and Baby Girl in tow.

9:50 a.m. - Arrive ER. Nurses, doctors, high blood pressure, more doctors, medication, x-rays, more medication, knee immobilizer, walker, referral to orthopedic surgeon.

12:05 – Depart ER.

12:20 – Arrive pharmacy. Purchase a bed pan. Or two.

12:55 – Stop by convenience store for milk and other essentials for Mom.

1:30 p.m. - Arrive Mom’s apartment. Get her upstairs and tuck her into bed.

1:55 p.m. – Arrive friend’s house to pick up OBB.

2:00 p.m. – Decide we all need a trip to Krispy Kreme. Head downtown.

2:20 p.m. – Car starts to smell really bad. Realize Baby Girl has had a diaper blowout of epic proportions.

2:30 p.m. – Clean up messy diaper incident. Throw away diaper. Throw away outfit. Head for donuts.

2:45 p.m. – In the midst of explaining to OBB why Grandma was in the hospital today, make an illegal U turn. Get pulled over by one of Richmond’s finest. OBB is worried the police man is going to take me to jail.

3:15 p.m. – Finally get donuts.

3:40 p.m. - Head for Mom’s to check on her.

4 p.m. – On the way to Mom’s, OBB asks for SillyBandz. Find and purchase SillyBandz.

4:20 - Check on Mom. She wants a rotisserie chicken for dinner.

4:45 – Take two kids back out in 95 degrees to WalMart. Buy chicken.

5:10 – Assemble dinner for Mom while children run wild around her apartment.

5:45 – Leave Mom’s apartment and head home.

6 p.m. – Arrive home. Listen to messages on machine from Mom’s friends wanting to know how she is. Return messages.

6:15 p.m. - Make dinner for kids.

6:30 p.m. – Eat dinner with kids. OBB shows off SillyBandz.

7:00 p.m. - Watch TV while kids play around me, all over me.

8:01 p.m. – Husband arrives home, asks “how was your day?”