Life as a Working Mom: At the Office

3:00am - I wake up and realize that Emily has not yet been up. Brian stirs as well and I share the news with him.  

3:50am - Jinxed myself. She's up.  I head upstairs to give her a bottle and a little rocking. 

4:13am - I head back to bed. 

4:20am - She starts to fuss again. I sent Brian up to check on her. 

4:30am - He returns. 

4:37am - Fussing again. My turn. 

4:50am - Finally crawling back into bed with the hope of sleep. 

5:00am - Alarm goes off... time to exercise!  Screw that today! 

6:15am - I never hear Brian's alarm go off at 5:50, and finally wake up.  Jump in the shower to rinse off, spray some Dry Shampoo in the hair (Seriously my new favorite thing! I actually get angry when I actually have to shampoo, blow dry, and fix my hair now), make up, and dressed for the day. 

6:40am - Get the girls up.  Usually a bottle for Em first, then we head to Leah's room if she is still sleeping. She seems to wake up in a much better mood if her sister wakes her up. 

6:50am - Get the girls dressed.  I let Leah pick out Em's clothes. She usually wants to match whatever she happens to have been dressed in. 

7:00am - Out the door.  Brian currently takes Em to his parents. 

7:05am - Leah and I are usually a few minutes behind Brian out the door.  Of course last minute Leah always wants something new to take with her.  We are off to school.

7:15am - Entering construction traffic on the highway.  It adds an extra 20 minutes to my commute right now. 

7:50am: 29 miles later, finally get off the highway.

7:58am - quick little walk from the parking garage to my office, across the street from the beautiful St. Louis Union Station. 

8:00am - Finally settled in at my office.  Pull out my breakfast.  Check my emails.  Finally feel like I can catch my breath! Time to get busy.  Query writing, excel doing.... 

10:00am - Typical meeting time.... since I do not actually do any day to day work with a single person in my office, ALL of my meetings are on the phone.

11:15am - If its Tuesday or Thursday, its time for boot camp.  Otherwise its time to munch on Lunch while I work.

1:00pm - Fridays, time to run.  This particular day I ran 4.5 miles, at a 10 minute pace, and walked another 0.25 miles in my warm up and cool down.  Yep, Im awesome! 

2:00pm - Back to my desk. Try my best to cool down. 

2:30pm - Study time!

4:30pm - Time to call it quits.  Ready to end my time as Kim and start back up my job of Mommy/wife.

5:00pm - If I need too, pick up Leah from daycare. 

5:15pm - Home sweet home. 

5:30pm - Time to start dinner while trying to keep the girls entertained and happy. 

6:15pm - Brian usually gets home.  I immediately hand Emily over to him so I can finish up dinner. 

6:35pm - Time to fill our bellies. 

7:00pm - Bedtime for Em. Bath (if its a bath night), PJs, swaddled, rocked. Placed against the far wall of her crib because she is crazy and needs to rub her head/face against something.  Whatever gets her to sleep...  

7:20pm - Leah time.  Sometimes I am spoiled and Brian and Leah continue playing until I ruin the fun with making her get in the bath or get ready for bed.  But sometimes I get some one on one time with my girl by going for a walk outside, watching a show with her, or hanging out in the loft. 

8:00pm - First attempt to get Leah to start going to bed.  It usually fails. 

8:30pm - Second attempt to get Leah ready for bed.  Pjs on and mommy reads a book or two to her. 

8:45pm - Good night hugs and kisses, "I love yous" and a lecture about how we need to stay in our bed until the sun comes up.  I get sent to get daddy who "scares away the monsters" and lays with her.  I head down stairs to clean up, get bottles ready for Em, pack my lunch and clothes for the next day, do a little laundry, and veg out for a new minutes. 

9:15pm - Give Em a dream feed of 4 oz.  Check on Brian and Leah if I havent heard Brian come out of her room yet.  Its becoming pretty common that I find Brian passed out with her.  This particular time he didnt even wake up to my pokes and shakes.... so I let him be. 

9:30pm - In bed, passing out!