It has been a long time since I have done a day in the life post and when I asked you ladies what you would like to see on the blog, this was a popular response! My last one was in 2021, almost 1.5 years ago, and of course our schedule is always changing!
Each day of the week is different for us of course, so I just chose a random day. This day I chose was Wednesday, March 8th. Here we go…
7am My alarm goes off and I start to get out of bed and so does Matt. Brody sets his alarm for 6am, so he is already awake. He likes to have plenty of time in the morning and likes to get a shower to wake him up and give himself a little time to watch a show and chill. It cracks me up sometimes, but I love his discipline. Madelyn is usually up on her own a little before 7am and she gets herself dressed and Molly always needs to be woken up. She is my late sleeper in mornings.
730am Matt likes to scramble some eggs in the morning if we have time. Both girls love eggs too, so he makes them all some scrambled eggs. Brody has usually already grabbed something for breakfast by now. Cereal or some little mini muffins he loves from Publix.
740am I am dressed in my tennis outfit for the day and am making all 3 kids lunches and getting their water bottles ready for school. All 3 kids like something different for their lunch “sandwich” at the moment. Brody still wants a grape jelly uncrushable, Madelyn likes turkey on a Hawaiian roll, and Molly likes a few Ritz crackers with a cut up mozzarella stick at the moment!
8am It’s time to leave the house. On a typical school morning when Matt is in town, he usually brings the two big kids to school and I will bring Molly. But on this specific morning, we swap roles because I have to be up at the big kids school for a special project in Madelyn’s classroom.
815am I drop the big kids off at school and park to go inside and help their class get ready for the big Wax Living Museum project they did. This was the cutest project Madelyn’s class did this year. Each kid was given someone famous to research in class and write their own speech, make their own costume and learn about. Madelyn gets Tom Brady (she was given a large list and picked her top 3 that she would like to research) and this is the day that she gets to come “alive.” I was there to watch the living museum as they had classes from different grades come through and press their buttons and they come alive and read their speech that they wrote.
10:45am They wrap up the living museum and they head to lunch (they eat so early!) and I run off to my tennis lesson. All the kids in her class did so well and they were so cute. I loved getting to see them.
11am I have a tennis lesson with a few girls from my tennis team at our local courts. I stole this tennis pic from a different day because I forgot to snap one! We don’t usually try to match for lessons, ha!
1215pm I run home after tennis and take a quick shower and make myself a chicken salad sandwich with some Fresh Market chicken salad I had.
1pm I use the next 1.5 hour I have before school pick up to open some packages we had received, try to pick up and organize my office a little, start a packing list for our Spring Break trip and cut some tomatoes to dry out on paper towels as prep for our dinner tonight. I also grab Molly’s ballet bag because we will go straight from pick up to her ballet class.
Note pad from Joy Creative Shop {use code Malone10}
235pm It is school pick up time and I grab the big kids and then Molly from her school. She still falls asleep at nap time (around 2pm to 3pm) most of the time at school, so I have to wake her up. We run in the bathroom real quick and change into her ballet clothes.
255pm Drop Molly off at ballet class.
315pm Run Brody and Madelyn over to our hair salon for Brody to get a haircut. I can hardly stand it because he decides to get a big by hair cut (which really means we cut it shorter than normal and cut the hair over his ears) and he looks so handsome and grown up!
4pm Finish up at hair salon and pick Molly up from ballet class and head back home.
430pm When we get back home, I try on a few of the outfits that I arrived and Madelyn helps me snap a couple of photos outside. She’s quite the budding photographer 😉
Yellow Dress {use code ANM10 for 10% off}
545pm Matt gets home from work and I start working on dinner. I am making tomato pie which is one of our favorites and some garlic parmesan pork chops that I am trying to perfect. I also add a bagged salad and make it a meal.
645pm We all eat. The kids eat some Mac & cheese and a few bites of pork chops. They don’t touch my tomato pie which is totally their lose because its just filled with delicious cheese!!
730pm Time for all the kids to get their showers and get in pajamas. Our main TV in our family room all the sudden went out on us and we have no TV for the moment which I have honestly really enjoyed. It forces us to play music and we usually have one or two games going on now instead of the TV on. Brody and Matt play gin rummy and I played a little Uno with the girls.
815pm I take Brody upstairs first and we go read a little bit and Matt watches a few minutes of Peter Rabbit with the girls.
840pm Matt and the girls come upstairs and it’s bedtime for everyone. I kiss the girls goodnight and give hugs and whatever else because it is 9pm before I make it back downstairs.
9pm I plop on the couch for a minute in the family room to unwind. I read a few minutes of my book and then knock out a few things on my computer that were hanging over me… kids sign up genius for school, summer camps, and a couple of emails.
945pm Matt has already tucked in the bed and started a show he was into but not one we’re watching together. So I grab my book and read a little more before we call it lights out around 1030/11.
And there you have it…. a random day in our life!! I hope this was enjoyable or helpful or entertaining!! I have some other really great post ideas from you girls that I need to start writing soon. This one was fun to do and always reminds me of the old school days of blogging that I know you guys still like and so do I!
Thanks for a peek in your day, I love it. Love everything about your blog, the travel, the recipes and family!
Thank you Mary. That is so sweet and kind of you. I really appreciate it.