Typical day of this mom.

  I have always wanted to be a mom. I remember talking about having kids when I was in high school. I don't think anyone thinks about what involves having kids. I am lucky enough to stay home with my children. I also never realized how much work being a stay at home mom is.

 My day usually starts between 6:30 and 7 if I'm lucky or don't do an early run. I get ready. I give the baby a bottle and help get s the 2 older boys ready. We are downstairs by 7:30 at the latest. We eat and feed the dogs and the boys are playing by 8:00. I try to start laundry or vacuum or both before we leave the house by 8:30. I hit the gym and shower. Then we stop by a store for groceries and by home for lunch by 12:00. Kids go down for nap between 12:30-1:00. During nap I eat and try to get a few more things done around the house. I also sit and decompress for a few minutes. When the kids get up I feed the baby and we hang out for a bit before school pickup for the oldest. Between school pickup and bed time is always a little crazy. We have a number of things the kids are in; cub scouts, soccer, religious ed, german school, baseball. So we do homework and eat dinner and run to whatever is on the schedule. Bedtime is around 7 for the boys. Once they are in bed I try to sit on the couch and do nothing until about 9 when I go to bed. Yes I said 9. Some nights I'll make it until 10. Having kids is tiring but I love it. 

 Nobody every told me this job was easy. Actually nobody really told me anything about being a mom. I saw other moms around me. Once I became one myself I had a whole new respect for the word mother. The faces make it worth it every day.