Week In The Life : Wednesday
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The morning begins with the perfect yellow breakfast blanket, bagel, & OJ.
Sometimes the dishes remain from the night before.
Often he needs his "crazy hair" sprayed with water and brushed before he heads off to school. Dad is good at this but Simon never likes it.
If she is up she loves to be up on the couch to see him off to school.
Her current carry-around & snuggly loves.
Sometimes he takes care of those morning-after dishes. Lily is never far if someone is doing just about anything in the kitchen.
She was helping me again today.
She plays. Takes them out & puts them back in & sneaks them into her mouth. Sometimes a mark is made in the coloring book.
Laundry. Again.
Up from her one and only nap of the day. Just about an hour.
Sometimes he works from home too. Anna likes to help campaign.
Lunch for her.
Lunch for me.
Back from school. Lego time. Anna and I spent some time in his room today - her pulling things out and me working on organizing the legos. Current organization idea is by color in small plastic drawers (smaller than the ones he is kneeling next too - those there will be for bigger pieces). When something comes up with our childcare I often end up organizing toys, going through clothes, etc.
Love.
Love this too.
They play. They chase. They giggle and screech.
She pokes.
Heading to a late afternoon & dinner meeting.
Dinner @ 5pm. We are early eaters.
Baked potato, cheese, & broccoli.
After her bath. She's in bed most nights by 6:30pm.
Watching the popcorn pop.
Wednesday was a challenging day for me.
I think I usually have a harder time on Wednesdays with this project. The initial excitement has started to ware off and I have to constantly remind myself to grab the camera.
On top of that our babysitter unable to make it today (jury duty) - making it two days so far this week that I have been "not working" in my official professional capacity...instead "working" in my Mama capacity.
Know that my life is full of ups and downs and ins and outs and grumpiness and dirty diapers and laundry and dishes and whining and spills (and laughter and goodness and more blessings than I can count). The realities of being a work-at-home parent and working out the balancing act of kids and work and childcare and expectations with a working spouse can definitely be a challenge. This is all part of my everyday life.
As I was ending my day I came across this quote from Emerson:
HA! Seriously. I needed a big time attitude adjustment.
So Hello Thursday! I am welcoming you with open arms and a "spirit too high to be encumbered."
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I love that quote from Emerson, I am going to use it in my classroom.
Thanks for your continued inspiration.
Jane
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I tried to put in a favorite photo for a Week in the Life. Did it work?
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Hello Melle,
I love what you wrote here for Ali. This is so true. We need new carpet, flooring in kitchen, matching couch in family room, but I always tell my kids and friends it's my favorite place in the whole world. I can go about 4 days tops before I have to be home again. I love my things around me, the photos, memories, toys, clutter on the counter, books all over the house, etc. One day my babies will be gone and I can have all that pretty stuff then. For now though I enjoy each minute of their lives fully and so happy to be their mom.
I also took a quick glance at your blog and love all the questions and favorites on it. We do that all the time so going to answer some of those later. Funny though my favorite movie songs, footloose, pretty women, LION KING could listen to those anytime anywhere!!
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I'm draggin' with all the photos and documenting but keeping at it. Love that quote; I teach 2 year olds in a Montessori school and today it was poop dropping out of underwear in the sandbox and biting and a sad new child missing mommy and two long parent conferences......tomorrow is a new day! Thank you God!
Can I print out the twill tape? or is that just for digital pages?
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love the pics! your daughter is a doll. great inspiration for me. thx Ali!
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You can totally print it out. I am planning to do that next week and include some screen shots for people interested in printing. I've done it on other projects and it works great.
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I love seeing glimpses of your everyday. Thanks for letting us take a peek. It's nice to see the 'struggles' together with the 'easier' days. I ditto everybody who says you are an amazing woman.
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you know what i love most about this? how {real} you are and this is. not pretentious and perfected. real and beautiful!
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Love the photo of you & Anna after her bath, some great moments captured today, but that is my favorite, you both look happy and the camera in the photo is so you too :)
Thanks for sharing as always!
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Love the quote Ali! Thanks.
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Your photos were wonderful to view, and the captions were just right. The Emerson quote is one I am not familiar with, but will refer to often from now on.
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You give me lots of ideas of photos to take! This is my first time doing week in the life. Thanks for all the ideas!
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Love WITL! It's amazing how it's making me live in the moment and enjoy the little things among the busy life we lead. Thank you Ali for your inspiration!
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I love all of your photos. I'm not taking enough but am writing a ton. Tomorrow I'll do better. LOVE that quote--thank you for sharing it. Oh, and thanks for the lego tip. We need to find a good way to sort all of the Legos the boys are accumulating.
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I love the realness of these comments. Sometimes it feels like I am the only one having a rough day, so it is comforting to know otherwise. Keep on Ladies!
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I decided to start this project today...and managed to get a picture of my morning cup of tea and my evening cup of hot chocolate! Thanks for the inspiration and motivation to see and enjoy and appreciate the everydayness of our lives.
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Hi, Ali! I loved your pictures! Wednesday was a tough day for mee too. I was about to quit! I don't have any help at home and raising 2 little boys is challenging sometimes. Now that you have all these ups and downs with your babysitter I think she deserves being in one of your pictures! At least I became curious and missed seeing her face (or arms, or something) in one of your Tuesday pictures since you sense her absent on Monday. ANyway, just a thought! Thanks for sharing your real life with other MOPS!
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I have to say I love love love your photo of your dishes from the night before, ive been trying very hard to do my dishes at night but being a single mum of a 10 year old girl and full on 2 year old boy by the time i get them to bed i just dont feel like it and would much rather scrapbook hehe, but i love all your photos and have been good and used the timer on my camera a few times this week to get photos of me doing what i do when my son sleeps, thank you your so insipring...so looking forward to how you put it all together next week
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I am loving this project. My Blog is www.mariannepollock.typepad.com - just a girl who loves scrapbooking & documenting life in Australia. Thanks.
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That quote is awesome - need to display that one somewhere prominent. Love that pic of Anna watching the bus and the one of Simon getting his hair done - my daughter is exactly the same!
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