Breakdown of a Typical Busy Day

Wake up at 6:00am to baby's cries. Change baby's diaper and let him drink from his sippy cup so he can go back to sleep for another hour. Try to sleep again, but can't. Get out of bed. Do a couple loads of laundry. Get baby out of bed and changed into clothes. Make pancakes as girls come down the stairs. Clean up kitchen while everyone eats. Help girls get dressed and do their hair while making their beds. Put the girls' ballet/dance clothes in backpacks while searching for Baby's shoes and 2 more diapers for the bag. Throw some snacks in my purse. Out the door by 9:15 am. Meet friends at the door of the Academy of Sciences museum at 10am. Spend 2-hours with butterflies, fish, alligators and penguins. Help escort five kids to lunch room and divi-up lunch. Eat leftovers. Another hour in newly-discovered toddler play room (score!). Go back to car after saying bye to friends and drive to the East Bay. Drive past 3 new houses on the MLS that could have potential. Wonder why the newest one isn't open for Broker Tour day. Stop by child consignment shop to look at Halloween costumes. Deposit check into bank. Drive to ballet/jazz class. Chat with friend while girls dance. Admire how cute they are!! Pick up Grandma to run errands. Drive to mall. Return items at two different stores, fall in love with new western lines at Janie & Jack. Make mental note to check often for sales. Help Grandma buy new frying pan while managing children who have to touch everything. Eat dinner at Nordies. Look at and try on Christmas dresses (!?!) that Grandma wants to buy the girls. Drop Grandma back home. Try to make it to the bridge's toll plaza again before the 7pm carpool lane is over. Miss carpool lane by 30-seconds. Unload car. Give kids small snack and juice. Change everyone into pajamas, tidy room and get out ballet outfits for tomorrow's class while girls brush their teeth. Put baby to bed. Read two books to girls. Go outside to feed chickens and change water. Do another load of laundry. Go back upstairs to chastise girls for being too chatty and silly. Try to go through email. Go back and separate girls so they will settle down. Read email in the dark because one kid is now in my room. Put her back into her own bed 30-minutes later and rub her back for 15-minutes until she relaxes enough to sleep. Greet Daddy in a whisper-voice as he come home to see what eveyone is doing. Shushes Daddy who wants to wake everyone up since his late meeting made him miss "everything." Make lunches for tomorrow's school day. Fold 3-loads of laundry. It's now 11pm. (sigh!) Wish I had more time for fixing clothes, taking pictures of things to sell on eBay and to perhaps read a chapter from the new book lent by Grandma. Remember that lunch's leftovers are still in the car. Go out and retrieve them. Turn out all the lights. Watch sleeping husband passed out in front of TV. Leave the hall light on a bit for him. Change clothes. Get into bed (ahhhh!). Remember I'm hosting dinner for 3 high school friends tomorrow night. Panic. Contemplate getting out of bed to defrost something. Decide I'll deal with that issue "in the morning." (another deep sigh) Nighty-night!