A Day in the Life of Me

4:55 am:
I wake up to someone opening my bedroom door, there is a light on in the hall and a crying baby in the other room. After informing my 3 yr old that it is much to early to be awake I give them both a glass of milk and with a little luck I get to go back to bed.

6:10 am:
I am woken up again this time my 3 yr old is pulling on my arm and informing it is time to make pancakes. Since "the sun is up" I lose the argument that its too early to be awake so I allow myself to be pulled into the kitchen and bullied into making scrabbled eggs and pancakes.

FYI: breakfast at our house mostly consists of cold cereal. I hardly ever make anything as crazy as pancakes in the morning those are normally reserved for "breakfast for dinner" days. So the fact that I'm doing this on a Friday morning which happens to also be the one day that my husband is picking up donuts from a eagle scout fundraiser we ordered is just bizarre. Donuts will have to wait for tomorrow I suppose. 

6:30 am:
While I'm working on pancakes my husband comes into the kitchen ready for work and since I have breakfast well in hand he gets to go pick up the donuts and head straight to work...maybe I'll never see the deliciously unhealthy Krispy Kremes after all.

7:45 am:
Breakfast is over. Both girls have eaten and I have just finished the last batch of pancakes. I make small pancakes so I have 72 leftover. I'll freeze most of them so that next time pancakes are in demand I can pop them in the microwave and go back to bed (one can dream).

9:00 am:
Surprisingly both my girls and I are dressed in normal/cute clothes and the kitchen is cleanish. No, I didn't do the dishes yet, but the front room is clean and so is the girls bedroom. Wow I feel like Super Mom right now!

10:00 am:
I'm watching a friends little boy who is best friends with my 3 yr old. They are getting along and all is fine. Even if the Super Mom feeling has faded.

10:45 am:
My mom calls just to talk. Yay for adult conversation!

11:15 am:
Someone is crying so I hang up the phone and rinse hand sanitizer out of someones eye.

12:45 pm:
We are eating lunch and the Super Mom feeling is long forgotten. I'm trying really hard not to yell at my kids, and I need to find a pillow to punch. All the "mom, Mom, mom, MOM MOM MOM MOM" is on my last nerve how many time do I need to ask what before you stop yelling my name and tell me what you want, its not like I'm even in the other room or something I'm right next to you just spit it out child. The house looks like a tornado hit and Dad is not going to be happy when he gets home to find that 2 different versions of Risk have been intermixed because there is no way I'm going to figure out what armies belong in what box. Good luck babe, hope you enjoyed your donuts this morning.

1:00 pm:
I'm thinking up an earned to invent so that the minute my husband gets home I can make an escape and to give me something to hold on to my sanity with for a few more hours....but that is no longer necessary because at this exact moment my mother in law calls and asks me if she can take my 3 yr old out for the afternoon. I am beyond blessed to live just around the corner from grandparents. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

3:00 pm: My 1 yr old is sleeping, my 3 yr old is on a date with her Grammy, and I'm writing about my day because its helping. It will remain a mystery as to when my house will look as good as it did at 9 this morning so I will be content that who ever reads this will know that my house was clean once today and that is good enough or me.

here is some proof

Okay so my days not over yet but you get the idea, and I know if I wait to post this I will never post it because I wont take the time to finish it. I hope that you and I both have a wonderful Friday evening.
...maybe I'll clean my house a second time today oh and this time I can listen to the music I want to listen too...

Dakota's Lullaby

I don't consider myself a super creative person, normally most of what one might perceive as creativity tends to be traced back to something I saw on Pinterest. However motherhood brings out the best of me as well as the worst but lets stay focused on the positive here.

I have recently discovered I have song writing skills, well sort of. I made up a lullaby for my 5 month old this week. (She is 1 year now and I'm just getting around to finishing this post.)

Now before I go on let me give you my oh so unimpressive qualifications for song writing. I can read music. I played the flute in marching band my freshmen year of high school and I have plucked out a song or two on my family's piano with my music reading skills. I sing the hymns at church but have a hard time staying in key, at least I can tell when I'm off which happens a lot. Also I have the hardest time remembering lyrics to songs. I sing hymns at church on a weekly basis and listen to a lot of Disney songs over and over again but the list of songs I can sing without the lyrics in front of me is surprisingly few.
I often think I should really learn more songs so I can sing for and with my kids more. However this goal has yet to get promoted from the someday list. 

So there I was, singing the same old song that I don't even like all that much. I thought anything would be better then that song so I just started singing her name to no specific melody and then before I knew it I had made up a lullaby, how clever of me. It was easier then I thought and a lot of fun. Why hadn't I thought of this sooner. Of course it is a wonderful discovery and I'm so excited about its success I'm starting this post at 2 am.

... 5 months later. 

That lullaby I made up in the middle of the night months ago has become a part of our family and more successful then I would have imagined when I first sat down and wrote this post. From time to time if you hear the baby crying you just might also hear her older sister singing Dakota's Lullaby.

Now I hope I have you all curious about this song and I do want to share it with you, but I want to do it with style. So I'm currently looking into making a fun you tube video with it, or more more accurately I've asked my cousin to make one. Hes amazing! You can check out his YouTube Channel here. Hopefully someday you'll be able to listen to Dakota's Lullaby on his channel.