One day in my life.

• 5:42AM --#3 wakes up crying. Has 102 temp. Give him medicine. Goes to sleep
• 6:48AM --#3 wakes up again. Done for the night, so he and I go sit on the couch together.
• 7:10AM --#1 and #2 are awake and slowly start getting ready for the day.
• 8:19AM --Mom of one of my preschooler calls and we decide together to cancel that day's field trip. POURING outside. Buckets, people, buckets.
• 8:23AM --DH stays with the younger two kids while I drive #1 to Kindergarten.
• 8:47AM --Called all preschool moms about cancelled FT.
• 9:03AM --#2 and #3 settled and watching TV. I settle down to finish Book Club Novel. Book club is tomorrow night.
• 9:50AM -- Phone call from DH to finalize flight plans to FL via NYC in Nov. before our cruise.
• 10:02AM -- Phone call from DH to suggest we get on those passports (I won't mention here that I've been at him for 8 or 9 months to get new passports...)
• 10:49AM --Finally finish filling out Passport forms and finding out about fees, ID required, etc.
• 11:00AM --Feed #2 and #3 lunch
• 11:10AM --Ask #2 to PLEASE finish eating
• 11:17AM --Start threatening #2 for not eating
• 11:23AM --Panic because #2 won't hurry!!
• 11:30AM --Finally get fed and cleaned up #2 into her dance clothes
• 11:38AM --Put #2 and #3 into the car; still raining.
• 11:40AM --Pick up #1 from Kindergarten (hey, the school's down the street, doesn't take long)
• 11:48AM --Run into Macy's to pay my grandmother's bill
• 11:59AM --Drop #2 off at dance class
• 12:07PM --Feed #1 lunch
• 12:09PM --Wash my face and apply great make-up for Passport photos
• 12:28PM --Check #3 for more fever; give Tylenol; change diaper
• 12:38PM --Put #1 and #3 in the car (all bundled up) with stacked diaper bag and passport info.
• 12:45PM --Pick up #2 at dance class
• 12:57PM --Get kids out of the car at Utah County Building
• 1:05PM --Told I'm in the wrong building
• 1:07PM --Feel guilty for bringing #3 out in the rain when he's not feeling well...
• 1:12PM --Arrive at correct building (next door to previous building) and Passport office
• 1:18PM --Told the form I filled out was expired.
• 1:24PM --Finish new form
• 1:38PM --Leave passport office happy and with happy kids (hooray for the helpful lady, string cheese and magnadoodles!)
• 1:49PM --Arrive home
• 1:49 1/2PM --Put #3 down for a nap (fever finally gone, poor guy)
• 1:55PM --Work on computer for 10 year class reunion, and Primary Sacrament Meeting Presentation while #1 and #2 watch some TV.
• 2:45PM --Make #1 and #2 turn off TV and draw/color.
• 2:48PM --Realize #3 is not going to wake up soon and VT appointment is at 3.
• 2:49-3:01PM --Frantically calling 5-7 High School students in ward. Find one. Beg for service. She rushes over.
• 3:08PM --Go to Visiting Teaching appointment. Good visit. Good lesson.
• 3:34PM --Come home and thank high schooler over and over and over.
• 3:38PM --#3 wakes up
• 3:43PM --First piano student comes early
• 3:50PM --Do first piano lesson anyway
• 4:23PM --First piano student leaves
• 4:24PM --Try to read some more of Book Club Book
• 4:31PM --Second piano student comes
• 4:53PM --Lesson ends early because student didn't practice very much
• 5:00PM --Let kids watch another show while I read for 20 mintues of Book Club Book (which, by the way is super fun and light and wonderful --Fannie Flagg's "Standing in the Rainbow")
• 5:23PM --Start making dinner
• 5:48PM --Read some more
• 5:58PM --Have kids set table
• 6:04PM --Sit down to eat
• 6:16PM --DH comes home
• 6:25PM --#1 reads her school assignment to DH; I read
• 6:55PM --DH leaves for YM's
• 7:05PM --Yes, kids get ONE more show
• 7:06PM --I read!!
• 7:27PM --Kids get in pajamas, we read books and scriptures and say prayers.
• 7:38PM --Kids in bed
• 7:50PM --I get ready for preschool for tomorrow morning
• 8:14PM --Check and answer emails, comment on blogs, start to write this blog
• 8:38PM --Phone call about Primary....
• 8:45PM --Finish this post
• 8:47PM --Re-read post and realize that today was a bad day to pick. My kids really don't watch that much TV in one day. They don't! Just today. Okay, and maybe every four or five days. But not everyday!
• 8:48PM --Decide I'm really tired. But I gotta finish that book...
• 8:48 1/2PM --Publish post... :)
• 8:53PM --Finish Editing post to add bullets...