SeptemberTime Journal, a week in my life

Time journal 2013

Monday, September 9, 2013

Went to bed at 11:00

Woke at 5:00, tossed and turned until 6:30

Woke at 8:35

Shower/makeup/haircut/dressed/coffee by 8:50 (wash hair, flat iron bangs)

Started time journal 8:53

Worked on Excel worksheet for the Edge project until 9:11

Clean cat hairball off the floor 9:12

Get school assignments out 9:12

Check email/facebook until 9:31

Quick clean wesley’s room (too messy to live with) till 10

School devotions, etc until 10:45 (protein bar for breakfast)

Writing workshop till 12

Lunch (made by Sophia) and history/hammock time till 12:30

Outdoor time: bugs, weeds, arranging furniture for birthday party on Thurs till 1:20

Work on emails and calendar till 1:25

Studio work until 2:25 (protein bar for lunch)

French until 3:04

Get supplies and head over to the Edge to paint third coat on wall/trim—Biblegateway on the way

3:45 arrive back home, start dinner (sambar with rice & chapati bread)—finish Biblegateway daily reading

6:15 finish cleaning dishes, head to KCC Wyoming campus for meeting (snack on carrots and dip)

Get back home at 8:50, put Sophia to bed by 9:20

Jammies, read until 10:30 (snack on white chocolate chips)

Jeopardy till 11

Read till sleep, about 11:10

 

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Wake 8:00

Run/Biblegateway till 8:25 (1.5 miles)

Help Sophia with breakfast, chit chat

Shower/get dressed/makeup etc 8:45 till 9

9:00 write this journal, check mail/facebook etc

9:20 create new school blog

10:00 help kids with school, eat breakfast (egg & ham slaw)

10:20-11 devotions: Passport to India

11-12 writing workshop

12-1 lunch, history read-aloud (ancient romans)

1-2:30 design school and personal blog at new website

2:30-2:45 French online

3:00 rest

3:30 take Sophia to viola lesson

3:45 grocery shopping at Aldi, shopping at Goodwill

4:30 pick up Sophia, bring home groceries, put away

5:00 pick up averys and bring to movies (protein bar for dinner, popcorn and gummy bears @ movie)

7:30 movie ends, go to the field by KCC and look for mug, goof around

7:50 come back to our house for goofing around; I work in the garage a little

8:00 show the girls the clothes I bought today, goof around

8:05 bring averys home, chit chat a while

8:25 come home, play Fruit Ninja

8:55 Sophia gets ready for bed, I finish processing mail, clothes from store

9:00 call Mom back

9:15 put Sophia to bed, chit chat with Tim a while

9:30 work on this journal a bit

9:40 facebook, emails

10:00 read until Jeopardy

10:30 Jeopardy—I won!!

11:00 read until sleep, about 11:10

 

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Wake up at 7:50, shower (wash hair)

8:10 facebook—wish Wyatt a happy birthday, emails, cry more than I expected

8:15 biblegateway

8:30 get ready for

Steelcase Appt. (blow dry hair, flat iron bangs)

9:15 head to Steelcase. Carte blanche, baby! Couches, soft seating, etc, for the Edge!

Pick out furnishings, head home by 12:00

Read history to the kids—The Ancient Americas—till 12:30

Clean up, small break till 12:45

Devotions till 1:30 (breakfast protein bar)

French till 1:45

Small break till 2—work on banners for next Paris Picnic show on Vistaprint

Writing workshop till 3

Write thank you note, mail order for KCC craft show, fix Vistaprint order with customer service till 3:20 (lunch protein bar)

Price items from garage sale for Allegan till 4:05

Bring Wesley to karate till 4:20

Make jewelry with Sophia till 6:05

Bring Sophia to Impact till 6:25

Go to Mom’s, bring furniture for booth till 7

Go to Carabbas for dinner till 8:15

Go to menards for pear picker, etc; then Meijer for Sophia’s bday cake till 8:40

Pick up all the kids, bring friends home, till 9:25

Sophie to bed till 9:40

Tidy house till 10:30

Jeopardy till 11:00

Read till sleep, about 11:10

 

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Wake 8:10

Tidy house for party tonight, wrap sophia’s presents till 8:25

get ready and run 2 mi. till 9:10 (biblegateway during)

shower (don’t wash hair), flat iron hair, get ready till 9:40

tidy house some more until devotions with kids at 10

devotions, read Jillann’s blog till 11

French till 11:15

Tidy more while kids finish computer work, till 11:40

Work on pendant jewelry designs till 12

Cook soupe du jour (from yesterday’s French lesson) & chop/freeze overripe pears till 12:15

Tidy yard, sit in the sun till 12:30

Read history (Native Americas) during lunch till 1:15

Make parfaits to go with today’s French lesson till 1:30

Tidy lunch, bring Sophia to ballet till 2:05

Shop Goodwill outlet, Ken’s fruit market for party food and flowers till 3:40

Arrange plants, stock drinks, begin cooking till 5:30

Party! Till 8:30

Clean up till 9:30

Put Sophia to bed by 9:50

Hang out and watch random tv till Jeopardy, then bed at 11:00

Read till 11:05

 

Friday, September 13, 2013

Wake 8:15

Run/bible gateway 8:40 (2 mi.)

Get dressed, makeup (no shower)

Go to Krispy Kreme/read Harry Potter till 11

Eat lunch, put chicken in crockpot, sort emails, facebook till 11:45

Make portable lunches for kids, field trip at Garfield Park till 3:30 Make a phone call for the first 10 minutes of field trip

Get ready to go to the edge for painting pews for coffee shop

3:45 leave, find out the pews aren’t ready yet; unload 4 lamps and 3 bolt of fabric into a spare office, tour the newly finished areas of construction, go home

4:00 kids do screentime; I take a nap

4:50 warm up side dishes, make a sauce to go with noodles

5:15 eat dinner (meatballs & veggies for me)

5:45 get ready to go to Horrocks, leave

7:30 get home, get a game of Settlers started, play till 7:55

Go to Toni’s sweet 16 birthday till 10:30 (1/2 sandwich, chips & guacamole, ice cream parfait)

Get home at 10:35, watch remaining Jeopardy till 11, go to bed without reading

Sleep all the way thru night till 5:30, toss and turn, then relent and just get up

 

Saturday, September 14, 2013

6:00 get up, make coffee, record receipts, check email and facebook, research Science videos for school

8:08 go for run/Biblegateway

8:45 take shower, dry and straighten hair (read the Last Lecture during this), makeup, jewelry etc

 tidy bedroom and kitchen till 9:50

Artprize installation at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, downtown, till 11 (eat a protein bar)

Farmers Market downtown till 12:30 (eat ½ a Honeycrisp apple)

Work in studio on jewelry designs till 1:00

Work outside on painted pieces till 2

Go to Meijer and Goodwill outlet with kids till 4:50

Eat dinner, heated up by Tim (garden green beans & beef pie from Farmers Market for us, macaroni and sausage for kids) till 6

Rest while Tim and kids play

Go to mary’s house for game night until 11:30 (no snacks)

Bed by 12

Wake up at 3 and don’t get back to sleep until around 5:30

Wake up again at 8

 

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Wake at 8

Tidy bedroom, bath, kitchen till 8:15 (protein bar)

Makeup, get dressed, re-straighten hair till 8:45, leave for church

Baptism class for Sophia till 10:30

Chat in hall till 10:55

Church service till 12ish

Home for lunch until almost 2 (chicken noodle soup, 2 bowls)

Nap till about 3:30

Read a magazine till almost 4

Get ready, leave for Artprize Artist party at the BOB

Get home around 9:30

Hang out with fam till bedtime, 11:00