My first ever Day in the Life post!

So a couple weeks ago, Elisabeth did a Day in the Life post (always favorite posts in the blogosphere because deep down, we’re all just nosy 🤣). Sarah had texted me, “We should do some D.I.T.L.s too!!” to which I replied, “We should!”, except then she started to do them and I did not. Ha.

Over at The Shubox Sarah is doing a whole week of them. I haven’t decided yet if this will be a one time thing or if I can manage a whole week(!). But nevertheless , here you go- my first ever Day in the Life post!

(Will borrow Sarah’s disclaimer that sharing play by plays of our life opens the door for judgement/criticism/what-have-you, so I guess if you take issue with how I spend my time…. Sorry? 🤷‍♀️)

Monday, April 28

0500: alarm goes off, hit snooze. Window is open and birds are chirping outside… feels nice to just lay there and doze.

0515: get up, dressed, brush teeth, put contacts in, rinse face and put a little concealer on. Head out to sunroom to gather laptop from desk… hear Charlie scratch at bedroom door. Let him out of bedroom but he doesn’t want to go outside. He just wanted to move to the couch, I guess. Snap pic out sunroom window of pretty morning!

0530: downstairs in office, open laptop. Make tea. Check work calendar, plan day. Play around sketching out new workout schedule on piece of paper. (Decided to cancel my Momentum with Sohee membership; I think I’m going to switch back to old EmPowered Fitness workouts (but recycle some old ones I saved for a while instead of repurchasing membership right now).

0545- 0615: Check personal email, delete a few things, respond to soccer coach, read a few new newsletters in inbox. (Jodi Wellman’s Four Thousand Mondays, Mark Manson’s newsletter.)

Switch to reading a couple blog posts, mostly Elisabeth’s interview with Joel from How to Money! Comment, also text Elisabeth.

0615-0630: Read my book. Mondays are a cardio day for me, so I had been tentatively planning to do that now… but somehow it already got kinda late and I left my shoes in my room and Ivan was still sleeping… and honestly I didn’t really feel like doing cardio right then. (I am usually not in the mood to sweat first thing in the morning! Wish I was.) This book is due back to library soon, so decide to read.

0630: log in to Bodi. Decide I’ll at least do 10 minute abs from 21 Day Fix. Love these- so quick and effective, no sweating required 😜!

0645- 0710: head upstairs, Ethan up getting ready for school. Make him a yogurt/fruit/granola bowl, turn local news on. Chat with him while he eats. Put clean dishes from sink away, straighten kitchen.

Then make my own yogurt bowl with raw oats, strawberries and blackberries. Ethan leaves around ~0705. I sit down to quickly eat my yogurt bowl, decide not enough protein… get up and scramble 2 eggs quick, top with árbol salsa. Eat very quickly while reading Nicole’s post on my phone.

0710: Go get Charlie up off couch. Get him ready to walk, get shoes, sweatshirt on, bags etc.

0715: head out with Charlie. Walk the longer loop through park while listening to Best Laid Plans.

Stop at the dog treat house…. Charlie is excited!

0745: Home, put leash etc away. Feed Charlie, water. Realize it’s now warm enough in house to open back door and kitchen window!! Going to be 79 degrees today!!! 🎉

0745-0815: Say hi to Ivan quick (he’s finishing up getting ready for work in master bathroom and about to leave), say good morning to Asher who is just getting up and heading in to shower in the boys’ bathroom. Grab my “basket” and head to basement bathroom to also shower (easier than getting in each other’s way). Momentarily think: I’m grateful for having 3 bathrooms and a plethora of hot water.

Shower, makeup, partially dry my bangs. Asher leaves around 8:10 while I’m still downstairs getting ready… oops, I didn’t quite get back upstairs before he left to say goodbye. Not sure if/what he ate. 🤷‍♀️

Get dressed.

0815: head down to my office, log on for work. Check email, tasks, phone call with colleague 0900-0930.

No real meetings scheduled today!!! A miracle. Put head down for couple hours and work on a lit review I need to do.

1000: Take very short break to run upstairs and try on some black wash OG Loose jeans I ordered from Old Navy that arrived the other day. I have the medium wash (wearing in pic above) and they are on super sale right now! Like $15-30 depending on the wash!

Keep working.

1120: Another little break to make a snack. Vanilla caramel tea, rice cake with laughing cow cheese and … random deli turkey strips for some protein. lol. Also grab 4 sour gummy worms to round out my very weird snack combo. 😅 Take back down to desk. Some misc texts with Sarah in here somewhere too.

Keep working until 1:30.

1:30: Run upstairs to let Charlie out, get the mail (it’s so nice out!!) and grab lunch. Also call school attendance line that Asher has orthodontist appt this afternoon, then back to desk for few more minutes.

1:45: put away message on work computer, away for appointment. Drive to Asher’s school, arrive at 2:00.

2:00: Asher drives us to his ortho appointment

2:15: check in, talk with him 10 minutes. They call him back at 2:25 for his 2:15 appt. Honestly, for this place, 10 minute delay isn’t bad.

2:30: I upload pics and start writing this post in the waiting room!

3:20: Asher done. Took longer as they had to replace a bracket. Schedule next appt (in June, when school will be out!). Sign a “retainer agreement form” that Ethan was apparently supposed to give to me after his last appt (when he got his braces off) to bring back, but yet, I’ve never heard of it…

3:30: Asher drives us to Dairy Queen! Hot day + appt= quick treat on the way home.

Asher orders a small S’mores blizzard, I go with a mini special “Mixing Bowl Mash-Up” (brownie batter + cookie dough combo). Their outside tables aren’t set up for the season yet, so we roll the windows down and eat in the parked car with the radio on.

4:00: Get home just after 4:00. Re-fill water bottle, back to desk for some more work while Asher heads to back yard to practice his golf swing.

~4:10-5:45: Work. Finish reading remaining 2 articles/fill out analysis for lit review. Was hoping to wrap up by about 5:15 but took until almost 5:30… and then I realized I still needed to send an email… Called it a day at 5:48.

5:50-6:45: Head upstairs, start making dinner. Only Asher is home, not sure what he’s doing. Let Charlie out.

Brown ground beef for sloppy joes (Ivan requested for this week) and chop zucchini. Continue making sloppy joes, local 6:00 evening news on.

Relieved when Ivan pulls in the driveway at about 6:07… yay, he can drive Asher to 6:30 swim! Otherwise I would have had to and my dinner-making was going to be interrupted….

He quickly changes into shorts and t-shirt and turns around at 6:15 and leaves with Asher for swim. Ethan gets home from tennis around 6:25 while I’m finishing up sautéing the zucchini.

6:30: I feed Charlie, realizing his bag is almost empty. Cut open new Chewy box that was delivered last week, put new food bag away, get rid of box and packaging.

6:35-6:45: Change into workout clothes. Talk briefly to Ethan before he gets in shower after tennis practice. Ivan gets home from swim drop off; says he’s starving and is going to eat. I say to go ahead; I am going downstairs to do my cardio.

6:45: Head down to do Cardio Fix from 21 Day Fix.

Oof it is HOT in my house and this feels… hard. lol. There were burpees. I suck at cardio!! Good workout though.

Done. ✅

7:25: Exit my office, sweating!! Glance at piano, decide I suddenly have the urge to play The Sound of Silence. Sit down and play it twice (fun arrangement!), then turn off basement lights and head upstairs.

7:30: Ethan done with his shower etc, waiting for me to eat. We sit at breakfast bar and eat sloppy joes, zucchini and strawberries.

Talk with Ethan; we scroll through the school student Instagram page together where all the senior announcements have been being posted re: college decisions and planned majors for next year. Interesting to see, even if I don’t know most of the kids! Chat a little about college related stuff.

7:45: Glance at clock… still so hot from workout. Tell Ivan “let’s go quick walk Charlie around the short loop before someone has to get Asher at 8”.

Walk Charlie for 10 minutes with Ivan. Weather so warm and feels amazing.

7:55: Home. Ivan says he’ll go get Asher (done at 8 but always takes 5-10 minutes for him to get out of pool…).

8-8:30: I jump in shower!! Got so sweaty from workout and it’s hot in house (80 degrees out and my thermostat says it’s 78 inside….but don’t want to turn air on as it will cool down this week.) Take shower, decide to shave legs (always so rushed in the morning…). Put on lotion, PJs etc.

8:30-9:10: Misc: Asher’s home, puts swim stuff away, he eats dinner. Ethan is doing homework. Let Charlie out again (he’s hot, I think, and just wants to go lay in the grass). Work on this post on phone a little, talk to boys/Ivan. Put leftovers in Tupperware, wash pans, wipe stove down.

9:10: Settle in on couch to watch Ted Lasso with boys and Ivan. Has been a long time since we watched one!

Charlie decides to join me ON my lap.

~10:00: Show done, Asher heads into bed, Ethan goes to his room…not sure but maybe jumps on his Xbox for a few minutes? I am relaxed on the couch and should head in to bed but end up scrolling on my phone, and then see Jenny’s 50 mile trail race recap is up!! Read that and comment.

10:30: in to room, brush teeth, contacts out.

10:40: lights out!

03:30: wake up to big thunderstorm. Doesn’t last that long, but now I’m awake. Can’t fall back to sleep…..Ugh.

0330- 0455: Lay in bed tossing and turning, thinking about weird and random stuff, feeling tired but can’t sleep.

0455: Alarm goes off- Asher has 5:30 a.m. swim practice today. Get up.

And that was 24 hours of my life! In DETAIL. hahaha! It was fun to do this! 🙂

Also, it was a nice day! One of those “good typical days” where nothing earth shattering or particularly exciting happened, but I was able to fit in many things I enjoy and still worked and cared for family and dog and house and did necessary life things- and maybe most notably, nothing particularly bad happened, either. 😉

Daily Gratitude: I am grateful for having 3 bathrooms in our house (see above).