A Snip-It into My Life

I know I have told you about myself and about why I am a Doula but I thought you might like to know a bit about my daily life. It's boring! Ha! No really. I am always doing something to keep me active.

Our Family's Typical Day looks like this:

6:20am I wake up. I'm out the door by 6:30am for a run. I'm currently training for a "Give-It-A-Tri" on the Toronto Islands in August. I'm very excited about it. This is the only time I seem to get to myself so I'm out the door as soon as I can.

7am I am home and the boys are starting to move. My husband is generally out of bed by now listening to the news on the radio and the boys are waking up.

We all have our breakfast and get packed up for the day. I know this step will be gone soon but we have been getting bags ready for Speech Therapy for Quinton and a school bag read for Kyler. Speech Therapy ended last week and school ends next Friday so we are almost out of this step!

7:30am until 8:15am is around the time Arnold leaves for work. My husband cycles to work and loves it! It's about 10kms I believe and it takes him around 45 minutes or so. On Wednesdays he takes my son to school and then goes home and leaves the "trail-a-bike" at home and then heads out to school.

8:30am we start our walk to school and wait until around 8:50am for Kyler to get inside with his teachers. Quinton and I head home and figure out what we are doing for the day. Sometimes we have ST other times we go grocery shopping, drop things of at clients homes or just hang at home.

11:05am is when Q and I head to school. We pick up Kyler and come home for lunch. The boys eat and watch their only movie of the day. Currently their new obsession is Magic School Bus. I remember it from when my brother was little but I love that my children are so interested!

1pm the boys go down for a nap. I know I am very blessed that both boys still nap but it's wonderful! I don't get much time alone but it's enough to get some things done around the house and work on some of my Doula work.

3pm until around 4pm would be around the times the boys wake up. Q is always first lately. I am hoping this summer with more time outdoors this will change and they will both sleep until 4pm.

The boys play together until Daddy gets home or supper time. Generally around 6pm or so.

After supper we go for our nightly walk (weather dependant) and then come home. The boys have bath day on Tuesday, Thursdays and Saturdays so if it's one of those days they get a bath. If not we are busy the other days a night so we just send them off to bed. They are in bed between 8pm and 9:30pm depending on the night.

Now that I have it written out so much can change a day. For example:

Monday nights we have our College and Career group over so no night walks (unless we get everyone to come) and bed time is around 8pm
Tuesdays I have swimming (for my training) and the boys nap time gets pushed until 3:30pm instead of 1pm
Wednesdays we have Kids Klub and youth group so at night we are at church.
Thursdays I have swimming and the boys have their lessons. We don't get home until close to 4:15 and then there is no nap or they sleep until about 1 hour before bed time and that doesn't work so well!
Friday is our 'down day' where we hang out and generally go to that schedual, unless we are going somewhere that weekend (camping, my parents house, ect) then our afternoon is a bit different.

There are so many things that can change our days!

But that is just a snip-it into my life! I hope you enjoyed it!