What Is Life Like For You?

Ok...my morning usually starts with me heading home from work. I am a nightshift nurse.
When I get home, I HAVE TO HAVE a pot of coffee and whatever novel I am reading. I usually spend a couple of hours drinking coffee, reading and winding down. Then it is either some housework or computer time. I guess it depends on how messy the house is.
By then, it is usually lunch time. I eat then get ready to settle down to sleep for about 5 hours before I get up, shower and head back to work around 6pm (I work 7p-7a)

Pretty boring, huh?

If I am off, then that is a different story. Add to my day: grocery shopping, yard sales, playing with the grandkids, going to the Casino with my hubby (by the way, I won $741 off a $20 bill tonight..WOOHOO!!!), working in the yard, exercising, cooking, baking, going to Weight Watchers and the list goes on. So, actually, I do not live a boring life at all.

What is your day like?

My boyfriend wakes me up after he showers and before he shaves, makes sure I am up and taking my BBT while he shaves. I record my BBT on my chart and start getting up and dressed. When he is ready for work I drive him to work with Dixie our dog in the car. We drop him off at work and come back home.. At 10:30am I head back in to town to teach my dance class and am there till 12pm.

I come home after class and start working on the computer, I clean the house and defrost dinner. At 5pm I watch my boyfriend on the news then I begin fixing dinner.

At 6:50 I head back in to town to pick my boyfriend up from work, we swing by the post office to get our mail then we head home. I finish making dinner and we eat while watching shows that we recorded earlier.

After dinner he cleans up and I take a bath, The pets need to be fed, the tender plants need to be covered or brought inside then we turn in for bed and repeat the process all over again.

No alarm for me ever since I got laid off from work. These days I allow myself to sleep in as late as I want. After I roll out of bed I shower and get dressed and then take my two dogs outside for awhile. We play and romp around the yard and go for a walk. After an hour or two we'll come inside and I'll do any necessary chores that need to be done.... laundry, cleaning, dishes, etc. Some days I'll have errands to run and I'll hit the post office or grocery store. The rest of the day depends on what plans I have. Somewhere in the day I'll check my email and play online for a bit.

Then I'll stay up until the wee hours of the morning watching home decorating shows or what not.

Nothing too exciting these days, I'm afraid.

I get up, get dressed, down a breakfast drink, go running, come back, hop in the shower, sometimes I shave/sometimes not, change clothes, get my papers in order, pack my books and crap, go to classes 1 and 2, have a some coffee, shoot the shit with my friends, try to scam on some girls, go to class 3, eat some sustenance, study, go to class 4, hang out at study hall/computerhall/or go back to my apt., eat again, do whatever I want to wind down for a couple hours (hoops, a beer, or whatever), study, play computers/read, take another shower if I need one, sleep/passout depending on the preceding.....start all over

My alarm rings at six in the morning. I shower, shave, and get dressed. I then go to the diner and eat breakfast. Then it is off to teach ESL until twelve noon. After classes are over, I go home and practice piano for about an hour and a half. I then go to my other job and teach Business Communications and Basic Mathematics. I work until eight thirty at night. I usually do some Gathering. Then I write tests and grade papers. Around eleven o'clock, I go to bed for the night. Now the weekends aren't quite so benign. I get in my reading and visit my mother at the home. That pretty much sums up my life other than the occasional vacation and movie.

I get up when my daughter (15 months old) wakes up. I bring her into our bed and nurse her. This is the last time I get to sit down until after the kids are in bed, usually about 14-15 hours later. She usually gets up around 6am. My husband gets home from 3rd shift around 6:15am. By 6:30am I'm up, and hubby is crawling into bed.
Change and dress my daughter. Take her downstairs, make her breakfast and while she's calmly eating her breakfast in her high chair, I get the Tazmanian Toddler. Change and dress him, usually up in his room (but sometimes he just BOLTS out of his room and I have to chase him downstairs). Then downstairs to feed him breakfast. Clean up breakfast mess. I just usually eat what the kids don't want. My son gets to watch Curious George from 8 to 8:30, and if my daughter lets me, I try and get some work done for the office (I work FT from home). Continue juggling watching 2 kids and trying to work until my hubby wakes up, around 10 or 10:30am. When he gets up, he usually shoves some food down his throat and takes the kids outside to play if the weather cooperates. I usually have some kind of conference call most days of the week around 11am, so I'm probably on Skype, madly catching up. Around 1pm I throw dinner in the oven. Daughter usually takes a nap from 11am to 1pm, so daddy only has to deal with 1 child. If Hubby works that night, he goes to bed by 4pm. Because of all the interruptions of "MOMMY! MOMMY!" and the beatings on the door, I don't get uninterrupted work time, so I make up the time after I put the kids to bed. Daughter usually goes to bed around 6-6:30pm. Son goes up for bath, book, bed around 7:30pm. I'm downstairs and ready to start work by 8pm. I try and get done by Midnight. In those 4 hours I have to finish up an 8-hour day, and usually do a bunch of crisis housecleaning, possibly prepare some food for the next day, laundry, dishes, and whatever chore of sweeping, mopping, vacuuming is screaming the loudest to be done. A minimum of once a week I have to repair a toy to avoid another meltdown. The house is falling apart, so I try and fit in at least one repair project on the house a week. Sometimes it takes me an entire week to fix something as simple as a running toilet.
And finally, I just took my Biology exam today. I dont' know what my summer school schedule is going to be like, but I try and take at least 1 class every semester. I'm close to finishing school now that I'm a Senior. So in that 4-hour 8pm-Midnight window, I have to squeeze in homework/studying.
I don't watch TV. I don't read magazines. And I've begun limiting myself to 15 minutes a day MAX of Gather time. I have 14 minutes left before bedtime, and about 2 minutes left of Gather time! LOL

My day starts off listenig to the click, click, click of my husbands deodorant (around 5:20). I am programed for that sound. My husband's alarm goes off around 4:45 and I never hear it, my mind has been programed to listen for the clicking because I know that is the last thing he does before he comes out of the bathroom. I spend the next hour and a half doing the usual...do hair...wake up kids...finish hair...wake up kids again...start on makeup...wake up youngest again...continue makeup...go make breakfasts and lunches for kids...finish makeup...yell at kids to hurry so I can finish some work or go to a staff meeting or a meeting with parents. Try to get to school by 7 but that doesn't always work. I am going to share my deep dark secret...we sometimes stop by the gas station for a "snack" before school, yes I admit it I buy my kids candy for breakfast...Hi my name is Heidi and I am a convience store addict (you all say hi Heidi). Starting at 8 I will teach 3 science classes and one high school Algebra class to my 8th grade students and one 8th grade math to my 7th graders..did that make sense????? Yes I do get a "prep" period and a lunch somewhere in my day and I take advantage of it. At 3 I am usually grading papers or planning...ok ok I will admit it (again) really we teachers often get together and talk about our day and about the students, yes both good and bad about the students. Did you know that teachers usually have the toughest time picking out names for our own kids. We encounter so many names in our job and those names are associated (good and bad) with students we have had. We have to do some serious searching for just the right name. Depending on the day I might have soccer practice or volleyball practice to go to. Most of the time we get home between 5 and 6 so I can make dinner. We often battle doing homework, atleast with my oldest then bed time with a short reading before lights out for the girls. I sit and watch TV or read a book in the garage. Another confession, I'm an early morning and late at night smoker. We dont' smoke in the house so I sit in the garage. I'm in bed around 10, usually. Of course this will all change in about 2 1/2 weeks when summer vacation starts. Remember how I woke up, well once I'm out of school I will not hear that click click until August.

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I get up without an alarm clock, I have an internal alarm... let the dog out, feed the cats, start coffee, fire up the computer. I play on Gather until 6:30 then it's time to wake the kids. I feed them breakfast, get them off to school and work out(either Curves or a walk) then I shower. I come home check email and Gather and start laundry or go shopping or the various projects I am working on. It was college work up unitl last week). I then pick up the youngest one from preschool, make lunch, put him down for a nap. Sometimes I nap or continue on the projects I'm working on. Make dinner, clean up after dinner and sit outside with the kids and watch them play. Bath time, read to the kids or watch TV for a half hour(spongebob) and then it's bedtime. Most days are the same, but there are a few variations from time to time.

Alarm goes off at 5 a.m. - get up (or hit snooze alarm, depending on how late I got to sleep!). 1st cup of coffee, pray, get on computer, post a devotion at momprays.com, get caught up on emails, post to on-line class discussion board.

Shower, get dressed, take out something for dinner (about 50% of the time) arrive at V house for the day, where I nanny4 days/week.

give 1 year old twins breakfast, watch Today show for a few minutes
give 3 year old sister breakfast while she watches "a show"
dress all three children
put boys down for morning nap
3 yr old - outside play or project nor workbooks
boys get up
nice days - walk in the stroller or outside play
lunch
boys and sister - afternoon nap - often only 1 or the other of the boys actually ends up going to sleep and so I juggle kids for the next 1-2 hours
straighten up play area
load/unload dishwasher
post to class discussion board, write or read
up from naps
snack
outside play or watch shows
play inside if rainy/cold
watch shows or danc/sing to music
get home about 4:30-5
iced tea
gather and computer time
dinner
study or prepare for class
plan arts and crafts activities for 3 year old
bed

i don't like to sleep at night. i finally got back to sleeping like one should but then things happen. so my day begins like this, i wake my daughter up at around 6:30 am and help her get ready for school. She walks to the bus stop at the end of our block with her friends around 7:08 am. by this time, i am tired so i do sudoku in the newspaper and start a crossword puzzle and drink coffee until i feel sleepy. sometimes a neighbor stops by for some coffee and chatting but usually i go to sleep around 7:45 a.m. right after my husband leaves for work. (i was working but i have been sorta sick lately so i took sometime off and reverted to my old ways.) at some point in the later morning or early afternoon, a neighbor comes by my house usually jen and tells me to get up, but she usually starts a new pot of coffee for me to intice me to join the world. i then clean up around the house as we chat from the night before and that morning. and then we either go do something before the kids get off school, boring things like grocery shopping blah. sometimes we just go down to the north shore and just enjoy the beautiful historic haleiwa. other times, we go visit with other neighbors whos kids aren't of school age yet and catch up. a bit before 3 my daughter get home from school and i make her a snake and look over her homework while she eats her snack and tells me about school. she does her homework right after school so that she can play with her friends for the rest of the afternoon. I usually sit outside with my neighbors and we watch our kids ride bikes, play games etc. (please note that all of my neighbor's husbands are deployed so no one has pressing matters) we let the kids play until 5 or 6 and depending on the night we sometimes take turns making dinner for everyone or at least all of the kids. this way the other parents get a little alone time. sometimes we just have big elaborate dinners where we plan it out and we all make and bring things to each other's house. the rest of the evening, i talk with my daughter and we play games or read together and then she takes a shower and i get her ready for bed. sometime after 8 my husband gets home and if he didn't eat yet, i make him dinner or just warm something up. we chat for a bit and then he is off to bed. then i make a pot of coffee and catch up on reading or bills or whatever i feel like. on occassion i wlll go to sleep around 3 or 4 then get back up again at 6:30ish. on certain days we take the kids to the swimming pool or the beach. they get out early on wed. so every couple weeks we plan something for them to do. those days i usually take my daugther to the book store or somewhere else she has been wanting to go.

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My husband wakes me up around 6:30 AM when he takes his shower, I then go down and pack his lunch for the day. My daughter has special dietary needs so I pack her lunch as well, usually my son buys. Then I comb my daughters hair, make sure she takes her medication and get her out the door for the bus. Then my middle child wakes up, I will usually eat breakfast with him, and then get him of to the bus. Then I will start working (I own a home internet based business). I will work until my little guy gets up, then I will feed him some breakfast and spend a little time with him. Then after I make sure he is occupied (sometimes he just likes to play, sometimes he wants to sit with me while I work, so I get him so play dough, paints, stamps, or coloring pages. Then I go back to work till about noon. Then I will fix lunch for my son and I. Then I will check my emails, and answer any that need attending too. Then I will work out for any where from 1/2 to 1 hour. Then I will do what ever housework needs to be done for about an hour, then I have story time with my son and I will sit and read him a book, then I will work some more. Then my daughter will come home from school, I tend to what ever needs she may have, help her with her homework if necessary, then I will work some more, then my son comes home about an hour and 15 minutes later, and I will tend to what ever needs he has. Then I will work some more. Around 5:00 I will start fixing dinner. We usually eat around 6:30. Then I spend time watching TV with my husband till we fall asleep.

1) Sleep til about 8 am or so
2) Make coffee and hit Gather
3) Feed the dogs
4) Make breakfast
5) Gather
6) Make lunch
7) Gather
8) Start dinner

And periodically throughout the day, I will do some cleaning, depending on which day it is.

I stumbel out of bed at 7:30 a.m. and my husband leaves for work, leaving me with our 3 year old and 4 month old. From there it's pretty much chaos. Sometimes we go into town for errands or playgroup sometimes we stay home and make a craft. There is some Mickey Mouse Clubhouse in there somewhere. Oh, and also lots of crying, changing of poop diapers, breastfeeding and trying to get a baby to nap. Around 1 p.m. they both go down for a nap, and then I try to get things done around the house or spend some time on the internet. Then they wake up, shortly after that their dad is home and I'm making dinner. Then, we eat and it's bedtime for the kids. After that, I go for a walk by myself and DH works out in the garage.

I will comment later. My self allotted computer time is over for now.

Not enough time for this one.

The BF gets up at 5:00 to leave for work. In the summer, I get up around 6:15 to 6:30 to take advantage of the just a tiny bit cooler mornings with no sun, to enjoy the garden, have coffee and a bite or a yogurt.

Then I work at the computer for two hours or leave for the day, or half a day to work on my contracts. I carry a snack in my cooler in the car if I'm gone for the day so I don't spend more money then I'm making that day - LOL. I take care of any errands on my way to and from my contract jobs.

My days and weeks vary greatly in that I may work all day long, doing contract work and write reports into the night, every night for two weeks or longer with little time for anything else - the house will be a mess, (the BF does great maintaining status quo though) but I manage to fix dinner at least three nights a week and most weekends.

We go out to eat about two times a week. Sometimes to a favorite beach restaurant or the nice Italian place in our neighborhood, the little Mexican place around the corner that offers a Grande Burrito which comes with rice and is enough for supper and lunch the next day, or a wonderfully appointed great Thai place with the best plum wine down the street. Well, we're foodies - what can I say?
If we're tired we order a pizza or get a grilled chicken or smoked salmon.

Other weeks, I may take only enough computer time to deal with e-mails and then embark on any one of my many projects, right now I'm into doing a row of mosaic bricks for a garden border. In the past I mosaic tiled a patio and a window surround.

We are getting ready for an addition, so right now I'm working with plans and ideas and contractor's quotes and I will stay quite involved in the process.

In August we are taking a trip to Europe for 3 weeks, my mom is turning 80 and it will be a perfect opportunity to see everyone. I am really looking forward to this trip - hope we have some money left to spend on vacation and sightseeing, after the addition:)

On the weekends, it's usually friends or family, or hanging out in the garden, or visiting one of the many events in our area. During football season we have football get- to- gethers when our team plays - we always have a garden party. I have a number of interests and so the events and exhibitions and happenings usually evolve around those.

There is always a project and sometimes it's hard to stay on track, especially when you discover a new hobby like photography and get hooked on gather. Gather to me has become an inspiration, but I find it takes up way more time than I had planned. So right now my goal is to find more balance and break this hold my gather passion has over me.

I'm a foodie and a good cook, so when the BF arrives home around five I usually drop what I'm doing and we chat and have a glass of wine or beer (depending on what I'm cooking) while I fix dinner. Sometimes I make smoothies or we have herb tea. Whenever the weather allows we dine outside, enjoy the garden and our two kitties.

Sometimes my work will keep me out later into the evening - so the agreement is, if I'm not home by seven o'clock - you are on your own for supper, or if I know I'll make it by seven, I'll tell him to order out, unless we have leftovers.

When I'm in heavy work mode the BF will do the dishes and I will return to the computer until around ten or eleven to write reports. Then I usually unwind by visiting a private forum - lately I've hung around gather 24/7 it seems, but my break from work (I work for myself) is about over, so I hope I've learned enough here on gather to set up my friend and my group settings for maximum benefit and then I'll allow a bit of random play time for myself.

I take plenty of time out of my life to play and appreciate everything, one of my best friends just retired and we meet regularly for lunch (we are too far away from each other for regular visits, but we meet up halfway between our place and hers) and I've started meeting up with another friend on a weekly basis - I find time with another woman feels good and is important to me.

I don't need an alarm clock, I get up at 6 A.M., slowly get to moving around, feed the birds, fish, dog, and start doing housework, now that it is warm, go outside and tend to plants, tan, Gather, talk on phone, shop, pick up son from work, home, cok, Gather.

This would be difficult for me, since every day is different. But I'll try.

I wake up in the morning and check the weather and scores (if there's a game I'm curious about).

Next I switch the tele over to sitcoms. I must have my morning laugh. On commercials I may venture a look or two out the back field if it is daylight.

Now time for breakfast. Depending on my mood, I may have cereal, oatmeal, eggs and toast (sometimes if I'm real hungry I'll include bacon), or pancakes.

Watch more sitcoms while I'll enjoy breakfast.

Time to make a list for the day. What needs to be done and work it around the weather.

Then I usually hit the computer or the shower, depending on my plans for the rest of the day. (Don't want to take a shower right before working outdoors).

I go through my emails, ptc, etc. Then usually end up on Gather....if I have time.

Sometime between 10 am and 6 pm I try to squeeze in some kind of exercise activity. Again depending on the weather.

My days are consistently inconsistent, so it is really hard to describe an average day.

So I guess I'm no where close to normal.

LOL, mine is pretty easy. I get up, go to the bathroom, go get my diet coke with ice, then settle back in bed with the laptop. I get up every once in a while to refill or grab a reference, but that is about it lately.

I am retired, so except I don't have a laptop, my day is similar to the one above.
Some days, I go to doctors, stores or the park nearby.

:)

My son usually comes into my room 15 minutes before my alarm goes off at to give me a hug and kiss goodbye (he's 12 but even at this age he says he never wants to leave me without saying "I love you" first ... ah, my sensitive mini-man!). Then the alarm goes off at 7:30 and my primary function becomes that of "motivator" for an hour. I have to nag my 10 y/o daughter to get things done. If I didn't get up, she'd watch TV and leave the house in inappropriate clothing without eating breakfast after doing nothing but watching TV. While acting as a motivating force, I'll pick-up, switch over laundry, dust, or do whatever minor clean-up task strikes me. Then I do at least an hour of exercise. Then it's business or Gather (depending on my schedule). By 3 pm I hope to have my to-do's done as kids start to land at about 3:30 pm. That's usually my cleaning time (mopping, vacuuming, tub-scrubbing, etc.). I do one half-hour clean-up task everyday during the week. That on top of the kids doing their chores gets everything done during the week, miraculously. Then we make dinner together, share the stories of the day, and go to whatever is happening on two or three nights a week (soccer, Scouts, Avon meetings, etc.). Then we watch a little TV, get ready for bed, and I get them to retire an hour or two before my own bedtime so I can read, Gather, check email, clip coupons, etc. Weekends are different --- they're fun time. :)

My day is too boring.

Shannon. Do you, by chance, work for Gather?

From what it used to be, I am now officailly boring!
Used to get up about 6am go feed my horse, come home, go back and lie down sometimes, at three go feed and clean at horsie again, then errands of pottering around, then 9pm go ride and feed and clean at the barn again. Wtch tv in bed and do it all again.
now...my dog wakes me at 8am, I usually take a couple of meds and (estradiol and prilosec) and go back to sleep till about 10. Turn on the TV, watch the 11am news and get up and eat and get on the computer and walk the dog and maybe go to the store, read for a while on and off the computer and dinner tv and bed again.
peaceful!

........3 am alarm (radio) goes off, turn it off, take nexium for the tummy....get the kitty some food and water...unless we are still being lazy and snuggling. shower, eat breakfast (cheerios and soy milk) but no sooner than an half hour after taking tummy pill, take vitamins, take allergy pills....finish getting ready for work, leave at 4 am. pick up friend, drive around the block getting the prices of the gas stations for work (comping). Start work at 5 am...take a break about 9 ish, work some more.... lunch at 11....work....break at 12:45, leave work at 1 pm, drive freind home, get my butt home unless I need to get groceries then I meet the kitty at the door and we chat for a bit, chekc my emails, send a few back.....take a nap until 5 ish.....Tuesdays is Girl Scouts from 6-8...then dinner.....Wednesday nights gotta watch "Ghost Hunters", Mondays...is "Un-Wrapped"......Most weekends I ahve a Girl Scout outing....and lately I've been moving but FINALLY I am done with that! adn that in a nut shell is my world.....WELCOME TO IT!

Wake up whenever (retired and need a lot of sleep)...bathroom first, then brush teeth, take thyroid med. Scuffle out to kitchen and make my one daily cup of coffee (milk, stevia sweetner, and sugar-free Irish Cream or Hazelnut syrup). Pad out to study in front of house, turn on computer. Check email, hook up to Gather... Two hours later, try to make self get off computer and get necessary errands done, make phone calls to family and/or friends, think about what to make for dinner for hubby...some days visit with parents, go on photo shoot with Gather friend, Kay, or get together with other friend and have lunch. That's generally it on the weekdays! Weekends are totally different because of hubby intervention... ;-D

well when I wake up all three of my small children come into the bed, and hug me good morning. The wife helps me up, and I get dressed. I come out to the computer, where I greet my oldest son, as I check emails, and gather. I greet my oldest daughter when she comes down the stairs. I have a cigarette and a diet coke, as I check the news online. Make any business or personal calls I have to make. Talk with the wife, have something to eat. Check on my bait shop, come back in check emails, and gather again. Comment here on pics. Do anything any friends need me to do for them like seeding lawns, hauling off scrap metal.

The rest of my day is spent talking with, laughing with, and playing with my wife and children. After the 3 small ones go to bed, I have class with my oldest 2, and watch television, or play America's Army with my friends from all over the world.

The wife goes to bed, sometimes I join her for a while. Then I am back out here with my oldest daughter until about 5am at which time I go to bed after a batch of sleeping meds around midnight. I suffer from insomnia, my wife doesn't liek for me to be up alone, so she has my oldest daughter sit up, and watch television in case I need someone to get me some help. I sleep from 5am until about 10am then it all starts all over again. Good days I sleep until 12pm.

I know pretty boring, but for me it is not bad at all.

I don't have typical days. I am a homemaker have been for 39 years, My husband is on social security disability and supplements his income with 5-8 days of sub work each month for 9 months. We care for a 35 year old totally disabled son and on weekend his kids are here. My daughter lives two miles from here but sort of lives here too since she only has a two bedroom house and six kids ( she just had a new baby who is a week old and her and her husband are building on a third bedroom, mudroom and kitchen and living room. Takes money and time) So I often have her kids here days and sometimes nights. It is rare I have a day to myself. I cook food from scratch and make do and do without. I care for chickens and cats and dogs, I wash clothes 4-5 loads a day and spring through fall hang them on the line. I use a wringer washer in those month and save the automatic and electric dryer for winter months. I live very rural and we pool our time to town, trying to make dental, doctor appointments and shopping in one trip. I am on the internet and maintain 8 Yahoo groups. Take surveys from Lightspeed, Global, Synovate, Hits4pay, and others. am on Gather, Boomertowne. Xomba, Yuwie, Triumphs, Mylot and other places to earn points or money to help with income to help my family. I cook, clean and garden and can in the summer. I read every night for an hour. I pray 3-4 times a day. I homeschool my daughters 3 oldest and babysit frequently. She buys us groceries for my babysitting or we could not afford food. We have NO medical or dental insurance so I quit going to a doctor have not been for 2.5 years. Can't afford one. I take vitamins, herbs and things and try and eat healthy. I try and exercise daily ball, walk or dancing or something. I multi-task a lot of things. The youngest child I watch is 3 soon in about 6 months I will be watching a 6 month old as my daughter will be looking for work and hopelfully working. I do watch t.v or listen to ABC soaps most days of the week. Weekends I go to church and we do projects. I am very organized and have to do lists. I am active in church, politics and the DAR. I help people and I keep busy. I am 58 years old. I often am up at 6:00 a.m and go to bed around 1;30. My days vary from day to day with husband subbing and when daughter needs a sitter or son and his needs. It is never the same. I am 100% a homemaker and I pace myself. I have Fibromyalga and Hypothyroidism and take thyroid for it from the health food store and pituatry and adrenal all natural my last doctor said I need them and they are a whole lot less expensive than prescription poisons and I am actually healthier than when on prescription poisons. We sometimes wake up at 9;00 instead of 6:00 if hubby has no work and other days earlier. We rarely go to bed before 11;00 p.m. But I always have me time most days. Usually a hot tub soak in the bathroom and read before sleep. I rock kids and kiss owies and cuddle and help with things and teach them things and we often go on nature hikes or bicycle in the summer. I will be getting some goats soon and will be adding milking to the list and more critter care. My grandkids help with things. Life is busy, hectic, crazy, fun and full of love. We also make do and do without basically our income of $22,000 supports 13 people as son in law also is disabled and daughter currently is caring for a new baby. But we have lots and lots and lots of love and laughter and can survive.

Wake up between 6:30 and 7am. No alarm clock. I just wake up. Wake the kids up for school then start getting ready for work myself. After we are all ready and the kids have eaten, we are out the door at 7:30am. Drop the kids off at school, then I'm off to work. I get there early, so I Gather for short while. Start work at 8:30 and work until 12pm then go home for lunch. Gather at lunch sometimes. Get back from lunch at 2pm and work until 4:30 or until we finish seeing patients. Come home, fix dinner, eat. The kids clean the kitchen, so I go outside with the dogs to play fetch or tug-o-war. Piddle around the yard, come in take a shower, plop down on the couch and watch tv until it's time to go to sleep.
That's a typical day.

Basically I plan my day around taking care of the baby and running my other daughter around. It might be boring, but I like being able to stay home with my girls.

Depends on the day. Each day is different.

Busy lives. I have a little bit of variety depending on my schedule.

Weekdays, I get up and get my daughter ready for school. Watch some today show then start whatever project is on for today. This week, I'm finishing up my spring cleaning moving all the furniture in my formal living room and dining room to clean the carpets, then cleaning out my cupboards in my kitchen wiping them all down inside and out and cleaning the decorations on top of the cupboards. I also need to mail out the items I sold on eBay after ridding up and get ready for a job interview for a part time job at a local college. If all goes well, I can get a discount on night courses. Of course I check in with Gather periodically. In the middle of all this, I'm checking on my 3 year old and making sure she's happy/fed. Then I get my daughter from the bus stop and give snacks, and hope she won't beg to do anything so I can finish what I'm doing while preparing dinner. Then there's homework (for her) and reviewing school work/tests, bed time, and hopefully only one glass of water/bathroom fake out before sleep. TV with my dh (or a game like Rummikub or Uno) then off to dreamland to start it all over again.

Wow- you guys are busy.

My life is pretty normal most days I wake up around 6:30 and exercise for 30 mins. Then it is on to the shower. Get dressed, breakfast, brush teeth. Check the email. Go through some of them. Go to work. Come home. Change clothes- play on the computer. Prepare and eat dinner and do a few chores. Relax, read, go to bed. Good night all.

Thanks for sharing this stuff.