Day 1 My photo and my day

Day 1 – A photo of yourself and a description of how your day was.  My friend Sharon posted this challenge on Twitter and I thought I would join the party. Each day for the next 30 days I will post on the topic as assigned. I have NEVER blogged regularly, so this should be a good exercise in discipline. I also recently learned that the most awesome Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project writes 6 blog posts a week AND chooses on working days (um, most?) to spend 3 hours writing.  Her thoughts on procrastination also inspire me.  It certainly wouldn't hurt if a little GR work ethnic became part of my frazzled, Filofax-crazed being. But. I. Digress.


Hmmn, a photo of  myself. As I am the Keeper of the Camera, I have very few pics to pick from to share here. I have two that I like. One is from my wedding 10 years ago.

This one is from spring, 2011, of me and my BFF, B. 

My day:
5am-6am              up and at 'em for coffee and Alone Time. Caught up on Twitter, fool that I am, and Bible in 90 Days readings. I want to read these thoughtfully, but the pace feels more like university and "The Bible as Literature class" I think I took. Maybe?


6am-8 am          Read Twitter for a while, fed sleepy kids and self, cleaned kitchen and counters.


8am-10 am        Scanned pics to Flickr, sorted household papers, managed kids, did laundry, made necessary phone calls.


10am-12pm        Paid bills, read to children, fed children and self, played 52 toy pickup; received package of graph paper inserts (and stickers) from Rori (yay!).


12pm-3:00pm     Printed tabs for Vision Filofax (as inspired by Pamela Henrie and her Women's Success Planner), checked and responded to emails, Twitter foolishness, Facebook folly, kept kids from killing one another. No, not literally.


3-00pm-4:30pm    Readied self for annual physical, helped dd with computer game, started dinner, attended appointment.


4:30pm-5:30pm     Returned home to dinner finished by dh (yay!), retrieved one kids from neighbor's home, fed all, cleaned kitchen, contemplated need for more caffeine, made one cup of Via.


5:30pm-7 pm           I honestly have no idea.  Oh, wait, gave baths to #4 and #3. Separately. One girl, one boy. Checked in with my mom. After that, your guess is as good as mine. Skimmed Twitter.


7pm-8pm               Summer bridge materials (workbooks) with kids. Minimum 5 pages=one tv show.


8-9 :30pm              DH ill and off to sleep, read to kids, fed them a snack, started bedtime routine, coerced children to go to sleep because Mama needs to be off-duty for a little while. NOW.


9:30pm                  Wrote blog you are skimming now.


11:00pm                Bedtime!


Thanks for reading, and more to follow...