Best Job On Earth

6:40 - Alarm goes off; wake up; wake 2 children
6:43 - Keep waking second child.
6:45 - Do Bella's hair in two pigtail braids
6:51 - Come down for breakfast; make breakfast; eat breakfast; email Bella's teacher
7:13 - Walk outside to bus stop; catch bus; come in finish emails
7:32 - Look up recipe for strawberry pie; finish freezing strawberries; prep the rest for pie
8:06 - Kody morning hugs, kisses, and snuggles
8:15 - Get Kody dressed; feed him breakfast; let Issac sleep in
8:32 - Make a grocery list; Roots list; and brief outline of day
8:49 - Issac wakes up; get him dressed; feed him breakfast
8:59 - Clean up dishes; start the dishwasher
9:08 - Sword fight the boys with balloon swords
9:15 - Clean 4 bedrooms; vacuum 4 bedrooms; rearrange furniture in 1 bedroom
9:47 - Solve sibling tiffs; vacuum stairs;
9:58 - Get boys in shoes; vacuum half of the den; load boys in the car; play one song on piano
10:04 - Go to Weis to pick up pie stuff; go to bank for check ledgers; go to post office to drop off speeding ticket bill
10:36 - Run home to drop off groceries; head to the school; inventory PTO closet paper goods; make 2 phone calls to get more paper plates; plan PTO breakfast for tomorrow; go to Bella's classroom
11:08 - Read to Bella's class excerpts from The Alchemist, weep over explaining to the kids their "personal legend"; realized Mrs. McMechen is weeping to.
11:22 - Bella explains to her class that I cry at church too, it's a good cry.
11:25 - Say farewell to my class, hug my favorite teacher to date, Mrs. M, and leave with boys.
11:28 - Head to Roots; phone call with Travis about cost of fixing the swamp cooler in our Utah house and other upcoming expenses, divide and conquer plan for tonight, and recap of conversation that Travis had with his old boss today about knowing anyone who would want to come work with him again *Hint Hint*; we'll pass
11:42 - Buy fruits and veggies; get lunch with boys
12:22 - Kody has to pee; find Roots bathroom; use it
12:42 - Get ice cream; eat it; head for car and home
12:56 - Drive home
1:03 - Get home; unload chocolate, sticky boys; take pictures; clean them up
1:17 - Read them one book; put them in bed; start a load of wash; put clean clothes in my bedroom to fold
1:36 - Head downstairs to make pie, finish vacuuming, sweep, mop, etc...
1:38 - Feel first signs of exhaustion; listen to answering machine
1:44 - Decide to blog instead of work
1:56 - Get back to chores; send emails, check email; call library;
2:04 - Vacuum rest of den; make to do list for tomorrow; bake pie crust
2:20 - Pick kids up from bus stop; finish planning breakfast tomorrow with neighbor
2:27 - Unload lunchbox; go through school papers; hang up coat;
2:35 - After school snack of bananas, pie filling on graham crackers, and apple cinnamon muffins
2:42 - Start kids on their chores - unload dishwasher, vacuum living room, reload dishwasher; help as needed
2:50 - Finish pie; send two more emails
2:57 - Make cupcakes for end of year party with Bella and Wyatt; refrigerate pie; thaw meat for dinner
3:24 - Put cupcakes in oven; clean up dishes
3:29 - Pay bills, balance checkbook, enter receipts in budget
4:17 - Travis call: to say he is coming home early
4:18 - Stop budgeting; hightail dinner
4:40 - Eat dinner; get Bella ready for ballet; me change for belly dancing
5:00 - Start to clean up dinner; shovel a piece of dessert in my mouth
5:10 - Leave for dance rehearsal
5:30 - Alternate getting Bella ready for her numbers, me for mine, and read in down time; wait; chat with dance moms
9:32 - Get home; mini crisis with PTO; write emails, make calls, try unsuccessfully to resolve; hope for better response tomorrow at 7am or deal with it
9:41 - Pick up a griddle from the neighbor
9:45 - Put Bella to bed
9:53 - Change into comfy clothes; annihilate the tick I find
9:54 - Update blog for the night

Still left on today's to do list: make frosting, ice cupcakes, prep pancakes for 70, clean up house clutter, return vacuum upstairs, get ready for bed, help Travis carry in sleeping kids when he gets home, if I'm lucky read for a few minutes, and go to bed.

It may be hectic, banal, boring at times, crazy at others, but it's filled with magical moments scattered throughout the day, happy smiles made just for me, and unexpected hugs and kisses and it's what I choose and I love it - most of the time anyway.