Describe a typical day in your current life.
There are two distinctly different type of days in my current life: summer days and school year days, so I will describe them both.
School year days:
The alarm goes off at 5:06 am. I get up, grumpily, go to the bathroom, and then to the living room to get breakfast and watch some Mike and Mike. Breakfast is either peanut butter toast and grapes or cereal with almond milk. Once in a great while, we will have muffins or donuts that I couldn't resist getting the day before. I eat and watch Mike and Mike while your dad showers and comes out to the living room to have breakfast too. No later than 5:40 (or your dad gets on my case), I head back to the bedroom to get in the shower. After I shower, I lazily take my time getting ready to go to work. I don't like having to rush in the mornings. At about 6:55, your dad hugs and kisses me goodbye and heads off to work. He likes to get to work early. Between 7:00 and 7:10, I leave for work.
Once I get to work, I turn on the computer and get everything ready for my first class of the day. After my first class, which is really easy because I monitor them reading for 25 minutes and do some conferencing with students, I head off to a meeting, every day except Thursday. Once the meeting is finished, I go back to my classroom and continue with my day. I have one class before lunch, which is at 11:04. I eat at my desk and usually work on something for my afternoon classes or forms that I need to fill out.
After lunch, I teach my afternoon classes. Some times those classes are challenging for me and make me want to rip out my hair, but I always resist. :) When the school day ends, I help supervise the hallways until all of the students are gone. I got hallway duty because of you and the fact that no one wanted me to have to walk up and down all of those steps carrying you. Once you are here, I'll probably start going outside after school to help supervise.
After supervision is over, it really depends on the day. Some days I'll stay after work and grade papers and make sure everything is ready for the next day. Other days, I'm just ready to go home and so I load up a few things and head home. Before I got pregnant with you, I used to go to the Y after school and work out. Once you are here, I won't stay too long after school because I'm going to pick you up so we can hang out. When I get home, I usually check my Facebook and look around online while watching TV until your dad gets home.
When your dad gets home, we talk about our days and hang out watching TV and being on our computers until it's time for me to start dinner. I like cooking so I don't mind doing it on my own. Your dad will help out whenever I ask him to and never complains about it, but I really do enjoy it so I do it alone a lot. We eat dinner in the living room while watching TV...usually sports, which you will have to get used to watching. After dinner, we hang out some more, talking and watching TV until bedtime. Some times I'll do the school work I brought home, but most often not. Then we go to bed until the alarm goes off and it starts all over again.
Friday nights are a little different. We go out to eat on Friday nights, though that might change once you are here. After we come home from eating out, I usually go to bed early. After a long week and a big meal, I don't usually make it later than 9:00.
Weekends are very laid back especially during the school year. We are all about recovering from our week and relaxing on the weekend. During football and basketball seasons, we watch a lot of sports. During other seasons during the school year, we will go see a movie or do something together. Now on the weekends, we do a lot of shopping for you. :) But it's always about relaxing and spending time together.
Summer days:
Since I don't work in the summer, I relax a lot. Most days I try and be up and around by no later than 8:00. I like to do workouts at the Y or outside before it gets too hot. There are a lot of exercise classes that I like to take at the Y so I do that a lot of days. I stopped doing most of that when I found out I was pregnant with you because of concerns with my blood pressure. I still did some walking, but not much else.
I also watch a lot of movies, play some video games, and mess around on my computer. I do the shopping, laundry, and some cleaning while I'm home during the day. I almost always cook dinner during the summer because I have the opportunity to try new recipes.
Nothing else changes much from the school year except your dad and I do more things on the weekends because there aren't as many things that we like to watch on TV. We rent movies, go to the movies, go to museums, play miniature golf, and things like that.
It's good to think about what my life is like now, because I know it's going to be changing a lot when you are here. One thing I know won't change is that spending time together as a family will still be the goal of our down time. Your dad and I love to spend time together and having you as a part of that will just make it even better. :)
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