All in a Days Work

I am just a stay at home mom. I do nothing except clean the house and laundry.  HA!!  It is interesting how society puts so much emphasis on a career!!  Okay, you may all know where I'm going with this.  Let's just say, my career as a Mother is the most important one I will ever have.  There are days that I think, "Just another day at home," but I know that is far from the truth!!  While others looking on may think my life is mundane (some who don't read my blog, that is) each day is filled with so much.  So many times I hardly feel like my mind has had a rest.  

All in one day's work:
Run on the treadmill after getting Cyrus off on the bus at 6:25.  Wake Treva and Katreese for the second shift of breakfast.  Hard boiled eggs and toast and then hair combing for Katreese and thankfully Cade takes them to school for me!  Third shift breakfast.  This time the toast is all gone, so Bella and Bereket get hard boiled eggs and oatmeal!  They're happy!  Quiet time for Mama with her bible and coffee, Daddy gets back home.  Get his lunch together and kiss him back out the door and off to work!!  The littles are sure to get a kiss from Dad too!  Bed making, teeth brushing, and getting the littles dressed for the day!  Diaper changing and then a stinky one!!  Get bread started in the bosch, start Treva and Katreese's sheets in the laundry.  Very quick shower for me and my turn to get dressed for the day.  Put first batch of bread in the oven, get fingerpaints out for the girls after they finish playing meeting.  The girls have a lot of fun making a big mess with the finger paint but Mom isn't too worried about it!!  On to the second batch of bread / cinnamon rolls and another load of laundry (girl's comforters get washed today!)!!  Next up is a snack for Bereket (and the girls too of course).  He spies the pecans, so I let him try them and he decides he likes them but he is a little slow chewing them up and tends to hold them in his mouth, so I set him in Bella's chair which he thinks is fun so he can focus more on the food in his mouth!!  He keeps wanting more!!!  Does he really like them?  I don't know!  Time to quit with the pecans and I put Bereket down to play for a while and then work with Eden on her addition with a new twist (magnets on the refrigerator)!  P.S. - Thanks so much, Krista!!!!  Eden has another lying episode today and I decide that she thinks she is going to get in trouble (so she lies) but it is important for me to make clear that I know she is lying and to get her to admit the truth.  Much time later and she tells me the truth.  WHEW!!  I talk with her in short clear English about the importance of telling the truth!!  On to lunch time.  First we take a walk to the mail and get some cool outside air in our lungs.  By the time we are back in the house we are hungry.  Fresh bread and leftover soup!!  I make up Treva and Katreese's beds with clean sheets.  Close to nap time but I have to finish up with Eden on her school.......  and on to naps!!!  YAYY!!  No story books today before nap time.  Somehow we ran out of time again!  I am still trying to figure out where the time goes!!   The day is not done yet....
  

painting magnets

Katreese and Bella painting magnets

Bereket eating a snack in Bella's chair.  If
he is sitting when eating it helps him
 to chew his food.

Eden practicing her addition on the
refrigerator.

Love how intense she looks in this picture!

Bereket being his usual happy self!

Bella doing her own kind of schoolwork at the table with her baby!

bread making day

Some certain girl asked me to make cinnamon rolls before
she left for school!

sticky rolls