A day in the life

Since I returned to work over a month ago, I wanted to do this day in our life, our new normal. Since we had a beautiful December day last Monday and I was going to dress up for work, I figured this would be a great day to document our day in pictures. Obviously we are not robots and things don't always happen at those exact times. Heck things don't always happen as planned but this is more of a general idea.

6:30 - Wake up, my alarm usually goes off at 6:15 but I don't get out of bed until later. Usually both Jbird and Tman are still asleep so I take this opportunity to shower and get ready.

Before I got ready to start the day. Gotta love nursing bras, they make for easy feeding

Ready to go wake the baby up. I put make up on everyday. It makes me feel put together.

The shedding has slowed down a lot, I only got this little bit of hair after combing today. Score.

6:45 - Hubby wakes up and gets ready

7:00 - I wake Jbird up if he is not already awake, get him ready then we go downstairs to get breakfast. Hubby wakes Tman up and gets him ready. Divide and conquer is our motto. I have Jbird and hubby has Tman

7:10 - We are all downstairs having breakfast. We usually have a bowl of cereal while watching the news or sport. I also nurse Jbird during this time.

Tman loves to sit next to me while I nurse Jbird. He usually is watching an Elmo video on the computer or the Ipod touch

7:30 - Pack up the kids and leave the house. Hubby takes Jbird to my parents' house while I take Tman to daycare with me. Divide and conquer :)

Hubby putting Tman's jacket on

Since you all loved that red dress from New York and Co as much as I did, here is another peek

8:10 - Arrive at Tman's daycare, enjoy breakfast with him if he is in the mood or just drop him off. I am so lucky that his daycare is a mere 5 min walking distance from my office. Today he didn't have breakfast since we ate before we left. I still hung out with him for a bit, I always hang out for a bit because I can and he likes it.

Tman and his classmates

 Tman in front of the class' guinea pig pets, he is usually excited about them

8:30 - Arrive at work. Work is the easiest part of my day :). I am here for 8.5 hours. I pump twice while I am at work usually at 10:00 and 16:00. Gotta love having a pretty set schedule, it makes for an easygoing workday.

I have three bags you guys, my breast pump, my purse and my lunch bag. Call me bag lady

The milk I pumped today. Took the picture when I got home. I know, I am a cow at least for another 9 months.

17:00 - Leave work, pick up Tman and head home
Check this out 70 degrees in December, I told you it was a beautiful day of December

17:45 - Arrive at home. Hubby and Jbird are usually home already. Hubby works much closer to the house than I do. As soon as I get home, I change into some comfortable clothes then get started with dinner while hubby plays with the kids. Meal planning and prepping has greatly reduced the length of time I spend cooking after work.

Before we changed today, we were in the office doing something so I snapped this picture of us in front of the mirror

Hubby chilling with the kids while I am in the kitchen getting busy :). Stereotypical much.

Today I made one of my favorite meals, grilled Tilapia with rice and spinach. I always make enough for dinner and lunch the next day. Our plates before we started chowing down on some food :).

18:45 - Dinner is ready by now. If I am up to it, I'll go do 20 minutes of Zumba or some sort of exercise. If not then I'll just play with my kids for a little bit.

Today I was not up for working out so I just hung out with the kids.

19:00 - Dinner is served. We are so lazy that we usually just eat in front of the TV. Lame I know but it's just way too much effort to set up the table and all plus this way we get to catch up with our TV shows. After dinner we just chill with the kids and catch up on our day.

Hubby with Jbird before dinner

20:30 - It's bath time. We take the kids upstairs for their bath. Again divide and conquer works for us, I give Jbird his bath while hubby gives Tman his bath. It works great, we get both kids ready at the same time while being in the same room therefore hanging out :). We usually skip bath times twice a week to give ourselves a break. It's not like these kids get that dirty anyway.

Today we skipped bath time and it felt great. More time playing and hanging out.

21:00 - We come back downstairs where Tman takes his night time bottle while I nurse Jbird

21:15 - It's bedtime. Hubby takes Tman to bed while I continue to nurse Jbird who usually falls asleep on the boob at this stage. I put Jbird in the napper downstairs with us because he is going to be awake in 3 hours or less anyway, why take him upstairs.

21:30 - Both kids are finally asleep. YAY. Hubby and I hang out, just us and it's great. We catch up on TV shows (gotta love DVR), cuddle, talk about our day without screaming at a child. The bonus is because it's Christmas, we are chilling with the tree and some hot cocoa. Life is good.

23:15 - We go upstairs and get ready for bed

23:30 - Hubby goes to bed while I stay downstairs to pump while watching tv or reading blogs (yeah, I have my little me time while pumping).

24:00 - Jbird usually wakes up, I change his diaper then feed him a bottle of the pumped milk and he goes right back to sleep. I can finally go to sleep too. YAY.

3:30 - Jbird wakes up to nurse. After we nurse we go right back to sleep until 6:30 when the cycle starts over again.

That was our day in a nutshell. Our little Jbird still doesn't sleep more than 4 hours at a time but it's expected at his young age. It's amazing to me that I function so well on so little sleep and I love it. We started co-sleeping again about 2 weeks after I went back to work. I just find it much easier this way. The bonus of co-sleeping is that I get to be close to my baby all night. I only get to see him a few hours during the day so I will take it wherever I can.