Time Tracking Tuesday: A Sunday

 Minnie woke us up at 7:13 am, and she climbed in bed with me to watch Aladdin. I mostly fell back to sleep, only to be woken up for real at 7:45 when Jack came in to let us know he was on his way to golf 18 holes on the last day of Madison parks' golf season.

At 8-ish, Minnie and I got out of bed, and she scampered down the driveway to grab the newspaper while I laughed at our snowman and his constant hum.

I'm still all about the bagel and lox breakfast, and I also looked at blogs and the paper while I ate.

At 8:45, I set a 15-minute timer when I was struck by how terribly cluttered the laundry room was.

By 9 am, I had a giant bag of LITERAL GARBAGE from that room as well at the 2 drawers of the kitchen table and the three drawers of the table under the mirror in our main room.

From 9 to 1, I just cleaned the house, pretty slowly and not necessarily well. Here I am looking just freaking fabulous in Minnie's room, where I started my work.

I also did Dorothy's room and the girls' bathroom, as well as the front hallway floor, and I did some general plant maintenance.

By around 11, I was onto my bedroom and bathroom and still looking amazing.

Coop went to dive practice (not our Sunday to drive-- phew!) Jack came home from golf and did some homework before heading to actual work, and Ben cleaned the boys' bedrooms and the downstairs family room. The girls just sort of loafed around and did some sort of self-directed craft project with toilet paper rolls and beads and SO MUCH GLUE.

By noon, I was done with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, and I dusted the living room part of our main room. I ate a lunch so half-assed it didn't even deserve its own plate while Ben fed the kids and himself, and then I got started on the kitchen.

Also, I still looked FABULOUS.

Ben ran a few errands (INCLUDING GETTING A PRICE ADJUSTMENT AT KOHLS BECAUSE HE IS SECRETLY A 67-YEAR-OLD WOMAN) and came home with our grocery order.

Before I put the groceries away, I went from this

to a much more presentable THIS:

From about 1-4 we put away groceries, folded and put away laundry, made a couple of beds-- I am not totally sure where the time between 1 and 4 went, to tell you the truth. Lots of letting the dog in and out, helping Minnie with various things, hearing about Cooper's inward double (he is working up to replacing all of his 1.5's and 2's with 2.5's), etc.

At 4, we finally persuaded Dorothy and Minnie to get dressed for the day (LOL), and we rounded up hats, gloves, and coats for Coop, Dorothy, Minnie and ourselves so we could all actually leave the house (I KNOW RIGHT)

We had a quick dinner at the golf course restaurant (we all miss summer)

And then we made it to a north pole party and christmas tree lighting event at our favorite outdoor mall. SO FUN!!

Despite that awesomeness, Dorothy's highlight of the day was her 6:30 pm trio practice at her dance studio. She is so excited to have a trio this year, loves the girls in her group, cannot wait to perform this number on stage-- all of the things. The studio calls solos/duets/trios "specials," and I can assure you, Dorothy feels VERY SPECIAL. Also, the girls were all wearing Lulu dance studio pants hashtag spoiled AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN PLAN IT.

Dorothy and I got home a little before 8, right in the thick of the bedtime scramble. Minnie and I are reading the Junie B. Jones series, and I love telling her the name of the next chapter and listening to her guesses about what will happen based on the chapter title-- so cute! Jack needed help with trigonometry, and I tried really really hard to help him (LOL).

Ben and I closed out our night with our current fave show Shrinking and were in bed by 10, which is a pretty recurrent theme of all of my days. (Also we ate SO MANY OLIVES my god).