5:30 alarm goes off. I don’t think I got out of bed until after 6 though.
6:30 a.m. Turn on coffee pot. Set out breakfast. Fix Bob’s lunch. Bob and I eat breakfast.
7:30 a.m. Get kids out of bed. Jessie is usually up by this time. Wake up Sam. Sam takes Kirby out for a piddle walk.
8:00 a.m. Kids eat breakfast. I empty and fill dishwasher. My back hurts this morning. I need to put DTRO on it!
8:30 a.m. Everyone upstairs for morning routines. Put eyedrops in Jocy’s eyes. She really resists this morning. Thankfully there’s only a few more days of treatment.
9:00 a.m. Downstairs for exercise and laundry time. Sort laundry that has come down the chute. Switch current loads.There wasn’t much laundry so I playe with Kirby while Sam exercised. Sam complained again that the treadmill is soooo boring. He has no other suggestions, so I suggest a book on tape during this time. Or maybe I’ll just read from our evening book. (Eragon right now) That would be cheaper. 
Sam likes this idea as long as I’ll still read to him before bed too. Sam read from his history book while I tried to exercise. My back hurt too badly so I sat on the heating pad next to him. We discussed what he read and I wrote down the notes (this time).
10:00 a.m. Back upstairs Sam is drawing pictures from what he read. I take Jessie to sit on the potty. She draws while brother does the same. We read another spread in the history book. Sam dictactes notes to me. I help with some of the wording. He draws a map and some items from the spread.
11:15 a.m. We’re done with clay. It was some pretty neat stuff from Michael’s called “Dry Hard.” Feels like real clay. I got the terra cotta colored stuff.
11:30 a.m. Sam takes Kirby out while I clean up. Sam makes his lunch, dogs-n-biscuits. He colors pokemon pages while Jessie plays with some water in the sink and I finish lunch prep. Take Jessie in to potty again. So far her diaper has stayed dry today. She insists she’s ready for underwear… from the underwear store she adds.
12:00 p.m. I have Sam remove the dogs from the oven using the oven mitts. This is a first. He is very pleased with himself. We sit down to eat. My back is really hurting. I wish I knew what I did to it.
12:30 p.m. We head outside. The temp is over 50 today so we need to get out! I had first thought to go to Bear Creak. But at the thought of hefting Kirby’s crate around, my back impolitely declined. I need to dump kitchen scraps in the composter too.
1:00 p.m. We come in from outside. Sam starts his reading. I change Jessie’s diaper (I have no idea when that happened!) and get her down for a nap. I think I’ll rest my back rather then doing dishes at the moment. 
1:30 p.m. Sam and I start on Math Mammoth: Multiplication 1. A lot of it is review as I expected. But there were a couple of lightbulb moments, so I’m satisfied.
2:00 p.m. Jessie isn’t sleeping. I give her a couple books to read in her crib to buy Sam and I 15 more minutes. We review what we did.
2:15 p.m. Sam takes a brief break and I get Jessie up. She reminds me that I promised hot chocolate after quiet time. So I fix some. Can’t be breaking promises, eh?
2:30 p.m. DH calls to check on me. 
I realize I forgot to unwrap the triops tank this morning and the temp within is waaay over what it should be. One is still barely moving. Oops. I restart the Laundry. Sam takes Kirby out for a potty break. Jessie is dancing to the music channel and drumming on metal measuring cups.
3:00 p.m. *sigh* that break was longer than I expected. Oh well. Moving on to spelling (dictation of rules while he writes them in his book). Jessie colors a Diego page (all purple) and informs me she had a dirty diaper. The clothes washer is making a beeping noise. A pause/restart seems to get it going again. I really need to check the owner’s manual. (I even know where it is!) *sigh* Sam finishes his spelling exercise while I change the diaper.
3:45 p.m. We get started on our last subject for the day, grammar. Sam is bummed that he will mis his show today (pokemon). Jessie wants to play. I need to start cleaning the kitchen so that I can dirty it up while I make dinner. Jessie decides she wants to watch noggin. I try not to use the TV much but Sam is feeling the frustration so I agree. Glancing in the triops tank, I notice one is still alive.
4:15 p.m. Sam is toast. He worked hard today. We’ll finish grammar tomorrow. I need to get started on dinner, “make your own burritos.” The tortillas are already made, so all I need to do is shred cheese and cook the beef.
4:30 p.m. Jessie smashes her hand in the gate. No blood, she’s fine. The washer is beeping with an error again. I take some of the clothes out to see if I can coax it through the end of the cycle. *sigh* I really don’t wanna deal with a broken washer! For some reason that reminds me I need to call the orthodontist to make a consultation appointment.
5:30 p.m. Ahhh! Dinner. I get to sit down a bit. DH calls to say his run was a bit longer than intended. Given the temps outside, I knew that would happen.
6:30 p.m. my WDH does dishes while I go downstairs to sit on the heating pad and watch Nemo with Jessie. Sam does his evening treadmill time.
Well, it is 9:30 p.m. now. After dinner, time still goes into double-hyper-drive. I enjoyed the time on the heating pad while Jessie watched Nemo and Sam played PokemonCrater. I am trying to not let evenings like that happen often, where were all sedentary and not really interacting. Tomorrow evening will be a tech-free one. I’m holding Sam to his desire to do that 3 times a week.
I hope you enjoyed reading about our day. I had fun typing it and realizing that we do indeed accomplish a lot in one day. I’ve been reading accounts of other homeschooling days and thought it would be fun to do one myself.
Ok, I’m turing off the computer and hitting the shower as soon as I do this final save. G’Nite!
