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This week I've been struggling to find things worth posting about on my blog.  I find I'm busy, but not with anything necessarily blog worthy.  So, instead of any topical writing, I think I'm due for a "day in the life of a stay-at-home-mom" post. 

7:17  Wake up.  For the 5th or 6th time since midnight.  Genoa barely ate dinner last night and then promptly fell asleep with an empty belly, meaning I had to nurse her back to sleep every time she so much as sneezed.

7:30 - 8:00 Go downstairs, lay out Alex's school uniform, make two waffles, one for each kid, then attempt to make a cup of coffee while Alex complains, in tears, that he actually wanted a bowl of oatmeal, which I then make for him.  Pack the cranky child's lunch: a crustless cheese and butter sandwich, fresh strawberries, a tiny wedge of homemade chocolate cake.  Finally make that cup of coffee for myself along with a bowl of oatmeal.  Check e-mail while barking at Alex to get himself dressed, which, after a nice hefty breakfast, he does without complaint.  Kiss the boys goodbye, perhaps oddly, from the bathroom.

8-10:00 Finish my breakfast.  Nurse the baby (AGAIN FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY IT'S STARTING TO HURT NOW).  Read blogs.  Run a load of laundry.  Load and run the dishwasher.  Drink 3-4 cups of coffee.  While fumbling around on Flickr, randomly decide I need to organize my photos by my kids' ages, so I can find things easier.  This takes significantly longer than I planned, but once I start, I can't stop because then I know I'll never finish.  Now I have albums of each year of my kids' lives organized as such.  And carpal tunnel syndrome.

10-11:00 Carol arrives and makes herself breakfast while I wrangle a happy-go-lucky Genoa.  Make myself an early lunch of an egg and sausage burrito, out of which Genoa steal 100% of the sausage.

11-12:15  I sit down to finally fix a problem in our credit report and get distracted several times by Dave calling to schedule soccer classes for our boy.  After much swearing and anger, I finally get the credit dispute submitted to Equifax (more on this to come as it resolves).  It takes me over an hour to finish.

12:15-12:30  Apply the bare minimum of makeup to leave the house, a new pair of jeans, a non-snot-smeared shirt, a fleece sweater and ugg boots.  Stylish doesn't even begin to describe me.

12:30-2:00 Pick up Alex from preschool and then hit up both local Target store's for our brand of coffee pods.  Finally find them, along with a slew of cheap summer clothes perfect for our trip to California in two weeks.

2-2:30 Get home.  Feed snacks to kids.  Open the mail.  Quickly check e-mail.

2:30-5:00 Head across the street to Carol's house (Dave's mom) to help her unpack.  Set up her computer hoping she won't have to pay for her own internet service and can just mooch my wireless, but alas, her computer doesn't have a wireless adapter.  Doh.

5-6:30 Get ready, drive and take the kids out to dinner.  Dave has a work event, so I decided not to cook.  Grandma Carol treats!  The kids actually behave and both finish entire bowls of mac & cheese.

6:30-8:00 Get Alex ready for bed: brush teeth, make sure he pees, give him a glass of water, read him a book, hug and kiss him eleven times and tuck him in tight.  He comes back downstairs ten minutes later asking for more water anyway.  Share a bowl of ice cream with Genoa.  Instead of eating it herself, she feeds me so fast I get brain freeze.

8-10:00  Watch American Idol while nursing the baby to sleep and surfing the web.

10:00 Dave finally arrives home.  I begin this post while he snuggles Genoa on the couch.  She missed her Daddy all day and wakes up when he comes through the door.  Eat the leftover dinner I couldn't finish at the restaurant.  Check e-mail.  Finish writing this post and then go to bed, hopefully before midnight.