A Day in the Life...

Busy Thursday at the Miller's Household...

• 6:30 am - After being up all night, Brian heads to a Leadership Prayer Breakfast
  
• 8 am - Sierra is overheard on the monitor and wants to get up!
  
• 8:30 am - Sierra is fed and playing / Karen is still tired!!!
  
• 9:30 am - Brian arrives home and takes over playing with Sierra
• 10 am - After a shower, Karen heads to her 5th grade classroom to get in some observation time
• 12:30 pm - Karen arrives back home to a sleeping Sierra and a sleeping Brian
• 12:45 pm - Karen works on some home work while both her babies sleep
• 1 pm - Sierra is heard on the monitor, she is ready to get up!
• 1:15 pm - Sierra is nursing and eating lunch (Carrots, Sweet Potato, Avocado, Rice Cereal, and applesauce - which, by the way, she does NOT like at all...we are still working on getting her on the applesauce train)
• 1:30 pm - Brian leaves to go get a truck load of fire wood - our cheap means of keeping our house warm because we don't like to turn on the heat! :)  (don't worry, Sierra has a space heater in her room, so she doesn't freeze, only we do!) :)
• 1:45 pm - Sierra is done eating and playing contently on the living room floor, while Karen tries to complete some more homework - Yes, we DO let our child play independently sometimes!  Trust me, it is good for her! :)
• 2:30 pm - Brian returns home.  We all spend some time chatting as he is unloading the wood and stacking it in the garage (and he cleaned up the garage and sorted through some junk...uh, I mean...stuff)
• 3 pm - Time for nap #2 - Karen takes Sierra upstairs and changes her and gets her ready for bed.  Yuck! Another poopy diaper...mommy always seems to get stuck with the poopy ones lately.
• 3:15 pm - Sierra is peacefully asleep and Karen goes back to her homework.
• 3:30 - 5pm - Karen works on homework while Brian is still working in the garage.
• 5 pm - Sierra is awake and wants to eat!
• 5:05 pm - Sierra nurses and is totally distracted by Brian who is trying to start a fire in the fireplace with the new (we think, wet) wood that he just got.
• 5:30 pm - Sierra is done eating and is playing in the living room.
• 5:35 pm - Karen is running late.  Kisses Brian and Sierra quickly and runs out the door - Daddy's doing bedtime once again tonight.
• 6 pm - Karen sits in class - Foundations in Education
• 7:30 pm - Brian puts Sierra to bed, she eats, they read stories, and they say her prayers...she ends up crying for over an hour.  Brian checks on her a few times.  She finally falls asleep around 9 pm.  (Karen's theory - she misses mommy and is sad when she doesn't nurse before bed!!!)
• 8 pm - Karen gets a break between classes - 15 minutes to speak with the professors, go to the bathroom, and schedule a time to meet with the group to work on our group project - is there any room in the schedule???
• 8:15 pm - Geometry for Elementary Teachers Class - not very exciting and Karen is fighting falling asleep. 
• 9 pm - Get up in the middle of class to go to the restroom again.  Anything to keep me awake!
• 9:50 pm - Class is over - yeah!!!  Usually we have class till 10:15 pm, so we appreciate getting out early. 
• 10 pm - Stop for some food...of course Karen did not have time to eat dinner before class!
• 10:30 pm - Eat dinner - hate eating this late...ugh...
• 11 pm - Brian is resting and Karen is working on more homework.  She has another assignment due by 11:59 pm. 
• 11:50 pm - Karen submits her final homework assignment for the day and with 9 minutes to spare - Praise God!
• 12:00 am - Signing off, so sleepy, need to go to bed so we can start all over again tomorrow!

AND THEN YOU ALL WONDER WHY I HAVE WRITTEN A BLOG POST IN A WHILE!!! :)