A DAY IN MY LIFE

So I will be rambling on today, bare with me bloggers & non-bloggers, you may learn something.

So what is it like to be a mom of 3 boys at the age of 30 you may ask – let me tell you a little bit about my average day.

• I am woken up by one of the 3 rugrats about 7am (usually the youngest) by him yelling at one of his older brothers (the reporter & the wrestler) or him bringing the dog into my room. I prefer to wake up to the dog but that is another story. I set the alarm each night, I don’t even know why anymore.
• Get up and hope I have enough time to take a shower after throwing clothes at the youngest one while telling him we are running late, get dressed & go brush your teeth. Typically yelling at the wrestler not to wear the same clothes as he did the day before and to brush his teeth before he leaves for school. I then rush to get ready – usually leaving the house w/o make-up on.
• Stop at SA to get a diet coke & smokes – the youngest usually gets a chocolate donut (real healthy) & some sort of juice.
• Speed to daycare – try not to wreck the transmission by slamming it into park as I am getting out of the car to run the youngest up to the door. I then run back to the car (I don’t recommend this in heals on ice) to proceed to work.
• I have my first 15 minutes of alone time I get a day driving from the daycare to work – I savor the time. Somehow, I don’t end up at work until 9 or after. I think it annoys my boss but she doesn’t say anything.
• I hang out at work for the day, playing on the internet and trying to get work done in between websites that I visit daily. My job is pretty slack for about ¾ of the year. The other ¼ I am lucky if I get to take a lunch break & rarely see the kids before they go to bed.
• About 4pm the older two get home from school and will call me to tattle on each other & ask if they can play on the computer or the PS2. From 4 till I leave I generally get 3 -5 calls.
• I leave work generally about 4:45pm – (I am salary so I technically don’t “have” to work 40hrs a week). I try to savor the 15 minute drive back to daycare it is generally interrupted by phone calls on my cell phone with the reporter at home reporting all of the drama happening at my house. When I arrive at daycare I leisurely walk up to the house & pick him up.
• Once in the car, I find out what kind of mood he has chosen to be in for the evening – either my little angel or the devil reincarnated. Usually the later. So I enjoy my ride home with him either singing or kicking my seat screaming at me.
• As I walk in the door and the reporter gives me the DL on what has happened all day from the bus stop to how the wrestler has been doing WWE moves off the furniture and whatever else he can be blamed for.
• Pick up the house while listening to all the boys “playing” with each other – it sounds like yelling to me but whatever.
• I end up in the kitchen trying to figure out what to make for dinner. When I serve whatever I decided to make I have at least one person complain – usually the youngest or the wrestler. I clean up after dinner and then sit down to watch TV or read a magazine. (this is usually about 7 or 7:30)
• The wrestler fights with almost everyone each night so I am the referee. I usually charge him with fouls and send him to bed early which results in him assaulting me as the referee verbally – I then call in the enforcer to help me reign wrestler into bed.
• 8:30 is bed time for the boys – reporter & wrestler try to negotiate 8:45 of 9:00 bedtime. Sometimes I give in depending on how tired I am. I tuck in the youngest in the bottom bunk and usually threaten the wrestler who is in the top bunk not to come out of the room. The reporter goes to his room and reads then goes to sleep.
• About 9 the drama at the house has quieted and the enforcer & I enjoy some time with each other watching TV or talking. We head to bed about 10:30 – knowing the next day I get to repeat the whole thing again.
  
  
  Now you know a little bit about my life as a single mom of three boys.
  Reporter =11
  Wrestler = 7 (8 in April)
  Youngest = 4