Sometimes I forget that the world does not wake up as early as a mommy of two that has to make her husband's lunch in the morning and attempt to get some work done before the kids wake up. For example, when I call one of my less married and a little more childrenless than I and wake them up at 8:30 in the morning! Not everyone has been up for three hours by that time...whoops.
Also, on two occasions this week I tried to run my errands before the rest of the world was ready for me. I got up early, got all ready, made sure both kids were fed, gathered my lists and my thoughts, made a plan, and headed out the door. I dropped Drew off at school and was ready to put some checkmarks on my To Do List. WRONG! Note to self - the bank, Hobby Lobby, and the mall do not open until 9 or 10 so I cannot try and start my errands at 8:30. That would have been nice to remember before I got Carter all loaded into the stroller and headed into the mall. **sigh** I do think the mall should open before 10. I mean really, that is prime time for a mom to shop with her baby - before the morning nap! Arg.
I am proud to say that I have gotten almost all my errands done for this week and even did the mall by myself last night with both little boys. It went quite smoothly with only one meltdown by Drew after leaving the play place. Needless to say, I was quite ready for the boys to hit to hay cme 8:00 and have a very welcome visit by Shell and Rich. We watched American Idol while Shell gave me a much needed pedicure! It was diiiivine! Thanks Shell!
5 comments:
Haha! I've definitely gone out to run errands and found that nothing was open for another two hours! Ahh to be a mom! Too funny.
That is too funny. And I totally know what you mean.
Amen!!! Why can't places open earlier so that the tough part of my day can be over with before blissful naptime?!
Call me lazy, but I dont even bother trying to get out of the house before nap time! We take our sweet time in the morning to play, eat and veg. Then after nap time is lunch then out the door to run errands or go play somewhere. Good for you being so productive! I guess I wont be taking our lazy mornings with 1 kid for granted anymore!
I'm definately starting to learn a lot being a new mom. Like one day last week I really wanted to get some cleaning done so I decided after the baby woke me up around 5am to just stay up after I got her back to bed at 530. I got so much cleaning done! Luckily I don't have to worry about the store stuff much. If I go anywhere it's usually macey's for groceries or wal-mart and both are open 24 hrs! It makes it nice!
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