28 May 2011
a day in the life…
Actually, it’s just two hours.
I’ve wanted to document something like this before, and lately a couple of my friends have done a day in the life and they inspired me to try it for real.
Like I said, all I got was two hours worth. Here goes:
3:15 – Wake Brookston and Everett up from their nap. (Roz is napping, Nick is at work)
3:16 – Change Everett’s diaper while he attempts to unload the diapers from their container. I prevent him from doing this by giving him some hand sanitizer from the pump. He loves it – spreads it on his hands, and then rubs it on his cheeks. DOn’t worry folks, his face nice and sanitary.
3:20 – Change Brookston’s diaper while he makes faces in the mirror.
3:25 – Reheat some mac’ and cheese for lunch. Most of it ends up in their mouths. They go for seconds and thirds.
3:38 – Chase them both down with a washcloth.
3:40 – Try to convince boys to throw squishy blocks into a box. It doesn’t work – they want nothing to do with me.
3:45 – Give up and decide to sweep the kitchen floor instead. Now I’m popular.
3:36 – Everett tries to commandeer the broom. I attempt to continue to sweep. He thinks this is hilarious.
3:48 – Leave the broom to stop B from unloading all the books off the bookshelf. End up reading the beginning of Stop Train, Stop with him until he decides to read another book on the couch.
3:50 – E is sweeping the kitchen floor himself now. Thanks, bud.
3:54 – Break up a fight over the broom.
3:57 – Pretend to cook with the boys. I try to cook up a squishy block stew. Now the boys want to throw the squishy blocks.
4:00 – Attempt to take a picture to add to this account. I find it impossible to get both in the shot because they both want to look in the viewer.
4: 05 – Try to get some dishes done while they’re happy.
4:06 – Fight breaks out – the boys have found one of their forbidden cars. I take it away and the world ends. The screams are so loud it wakes up Roz from her nap.
4:12 – I can’t get Rosalyn back to sleep. The boys are still crying and fighting over something or another.
4:21 – I break down and yell at the boys to stop fighting and throwing noodles across the room. This seems to work, they smile (? huh wha?) and then settle down a bit for the next few minutes.
4:22 – Roz stays sitting up on her own for a moment for the first time!
4:23 – Whilst sitting happily, Roz blows out of her diaper like crazy. It’s on the blanket, me, her. I run to the bathroom with her.
4:26 – I leave Roz in the bathroom to break up another smash down fight between the boys. I separate them into different rooms so I can focus.
4:29 – I’m back to Roz, and it takes a while.
4:33 – I put some clothes on again.
4:35 – I put on the movie UP to distract B&E so I can nurse Roz.
5:15 – My friend arrives, and we hang out, and I stop recording.
There you have it – two hours.
22 May 2011
17 April 2011
04 April 2011
Living life in my head
Sometimes I feel like I’m living life in my head. I’ll remember that I need to send a friend a thank you note. I'll even get so far as to plan out what I’ll say. And then something happens, say, a lob of jell-o soars through the air, and the thank you note is forever trapped in my psyche. Then I’ll see the friend, feel like I’ve thanked them, and then remember that I never actually wrote the note.
I do this with phone calls, emails, bills, laundry, projects, crafts, blog entries, you name it, and I’ve lived it … in my head. You would not believe how productive I am in my head.
This month, I’m going to move out of my head into the real world.
03 April 2011
Rad Rosalyn’s Ridiculously Riotous Recounting
Hi Folks. This is what I’ve been up to:
Mostly, I take naps. It looks like this.
Other times I watch Cars with these two.
This is what they call tummy time. I call it … tummy time.
Here I am in my sweet ride. That’s my mom’s sweet foot there on the left.
And this is my friend, The Faucet. 
Bye now.
