Confessional Friday: A Day in the Life

A day in the life of the Sperry Family. First, we are a family of 4 with a four legged baby and of course our 18 month old two legged baby. So this is a day in the life of our crazy life chasing around a toddler.

Our alarm goes off at 6:30 everyday. My husband normally starts hitting snooze immediately. We usually snooze until 6:45-6:50 unless Mason decides to get up early. Today, I jumped in the shower first. Yay for showering before noon today! When Mason wakes up before 7am, I don’t always shower before getting him ready and taking him to school. I should add some days I just don’t want to get out of bed…Monday was one of those days and I woke up when Mason did at 7:15AM. Yikes. We were a bit rushed. I typically get my shower and hair dried before Mason wakes up. Mason wakes up between 7:00-7:15am. I don’t let him go past 7:15AM. I usually hear him stir and go to the kitchen to grab a cup of milk. While I am getting milk Michael and Gabby head upstairs to pick up Mason and give him some extra loving. We change his diaper and get him into clothes while he drinks his milk on the changer. We all then go downstairs. Mason normally destroys all of the bathroom drawers while we finish getting ready. D-STRUCT-O! My once clean bathroom is now a huge mess.

Between 7:21-7:30, Michael puts Mason into the car seat for me, while I refill his milk cup, and I head off to take Mason to school. It takes me 10 minutes to get to school from our house and I normally talk to his teachers about his morning and night. Mason gives me a hug and kiss and normally doesn’t cry when I drop him off. He is too busy playing with his bestie.

I am back to the house by 7:45-7:50. I go into my home office and start logging into my computer. My company’s security is tight and it takes me 10 minutes to get my computer ready for me to start my day. While the computer is logging in to the proper sites, I go into the kitchen and make myself some breakfast. Today, I had a bagel with cream cheese and a Red Bull. I will eat a bagel or toast and normally have a red bull or dr. pepper in the mornings. Today is a crazy busy day. I have a million meetings including two presentations to give. YAY!

Work Outfit. Notice the Mason drool on the mirror. Mason loves him some Mirror Baby.

11:30am rolls around and I am starving! Michael came home today for lunch, and I love when he gets to have lunch with me. We usually sit at the table or go outside and eat by the pool. It is a great time for us to talk and visit without Mason pulling us into seven directions. I love this time. We talk about work and life. Usually it is spent discussing anything but Mason, but today we have a discussion about Mason’s allergies. We think he might have developed an allergy to blueberries now. We cannot decide if his diarrhea is because of teeth or blueberries. We make a decision to avoid blueberries until after his molars have come in fully to verify or get it tested in September when we return to the allergist, whichever comes first. We also spend some time discussing a few upcoming trips on our family calendar. 

By 12:30 we are both working again. Boo. Work. I try to focus on my presentations. I am super sleepy this afternoon and really want a nap. Even though I work from home, I actually work…I know that is shocking to some. Don’t get me wrong there are definitely benefits to working at home. Instead of breaks walking around an office I spend breaks changing out the laundry or putting the dishes from the night before in the dishwasher. I get on the camera at Mason’s school about 10 times a day to see what he is up to. It is super glamorous to work from home. I really miss out on socializing with coworkers and getting out of the house everyday. I biggest highlight of the day is going to get the mail! 2pm is when the mailman arrives at our house…yup…glamorous. 

Between 4:50-5:00 I leave the house to go pick up Mason from school. I get to school and Mason runs from across the room to see me. This is new! I love it! Can he do this when he is 16, please? I talk to his teachers about his school day. I get a daily report but like to hear it directly from the source.

We are back home by 5:30 and Mason plays in the car while I wipe down where he spilled some milk. Michael isn’t home yet, so we play in the car until Daddy gets home. It is such a nice day, that we quickly change into our swimsuits. Mason loves to swim and be outside. When he isn’t confined to his highchair he is at the door yelling Out-Side. And there is normally some Mommy or Daddy hand grabbing and dragging of us to the door and even placing our hand on the handle. Too smart for his own good. We decide to eat leftover pizza that I had to order for lunch when I had meetings from 10-3:00! Instead of creating a meltdown we eat outside by the pool. Mommy and Daddy have a beer with dinner…long work day.We are outside and swimming for about an hour. Here is my attempt at getting a picture of all my favs jumping into the pool together! 7:00PM, we get out of the pool and take Mason to get ready for bed. This is a fight with Mason. He wants to stay outside and swim. We have tears! I take him upstairs and quickly grab a paci. This immediately silences the cry. He makes his I am sleepy noise. It is something he has done since he was a newborn, the second he gets his paci, if he is sleepy he makes this specific noise. Diaper change, pjs on, time for a book. I grab his blanket and turn off the lights. His cute little arms tuck under his body. Sign #2 that he is sleepy. 5 minutes of rocking and he is done. 8pm…boy is out for the night.

8:01PM Mommy and Daddy have silence. Tonight we have a show we both love…Suits on USA Network. Love it! We go get ready for bed and turn on the DVR. By the time we are both showered (pool=extra shower) and our teeth brushed we know enough of the show is saved that we can zoom through all of the commercials. After the show is over we veg out to HGTVs House Hunters International and talk about our future beach house! Some nights we don’t make it to see which house they pick. I always hate when that happens, because the next morning I seriously think about it.

There it is…a whole day in our house. It isn’t always pretty but it is what it is…OURS!