Monday is my favorite day of the week… when everything goes according to plan. When things get off track, I feel like the whole week threatens to tumble.
Here’s how my Monday unfolded yesterday:
5:15 alarm for coffee and word games on my phone
5:30-6:20 Followed by 50 minutes on the elliptical while I listened to
Grey Wolf and worked on my adjunct online classes. I do retention on Mondays and also grade any late work from the previous module. I have 2 sections this 8-week term, so it took me a little while to reach out to students with missing work and make sure my grade book is up-to-date. I also checked in on our student outreach system to see if any of my students have alerts and checked my email.
6:20-6:40: Time to wipe down 3 bathrooms really fast and get ready for some yoga. Where I was joined by Minnie.
6:55-7:15: Pack lunches, loosely supervise breakfast (Dorothy usually packs her own, but she forgot Sunday night, so I did hers and mine and my dinner and Minnie’s)
Minnie was bummed because she can’t have PB sandwiches at school, so she had lunch for breakfast, complete with an oatmeal scotchie and chips and salsa.
7:15-7:45: Make beds, general tidying, help the kids get ready to go, make sure activity bags are packed
I definitely lost some time there because all of the sudden, it was
8:15, which is the time I would really like to leave to take Minnie to school, and I looked like this still:
But! Here I am just 15 minutes later
I dropped Minnie off at 8:45 (15 minutes late, which definitely tracks) and dug into a bagel with cream cheese and lox and a second cup of coffee, plus Pod Save America for my drive to the office
I spent a pleasant 20 minutes planning my day and week when I got to the office and then went downstairs to teach my large lecture class
Class was over by
11, meaning I had five hours to do course prep and exam grading, put out administrative fires, meet with graduate students, and hold office hours. I enjoyed every one of them, even though I forgot my computer today **yikes face**
Luckily I had my iPad. THAT NEEDED A SOFTWARE UPDATE OF COURSE.
Dinner and snacks:
The wrap is a copycat
Whole Foods curried chicken salad wrap and I lurve it.
4-6pm: Staff meeting for the gen ed course I direct. Someone needed to attend via Zoom and there were so many technical difficulties. SO MANY.
6:-7:30: Watching the tail end of dive practice, reading my book, and eating my packed dinner.
7:30-8:15: Drive the dive carpool home
9:50 And now I am back on the couch, doing a little work and watching Shrinking in my PJ’s with a flute of sparkling rose champagne. PHEW!
So many things. I love that you end the day with a flute of rose champagne. Living the dream, girl. Second, your transformation in a mere fifteen minutes before leaving the house is inspirational! Hitting the marks! On Monday! You're crushing.
ReplyDeleteit's all about showering at night. I go to bed with dripping wet hair and just figure it out on the fly.
DeleteI agree with Nicole - that is a speedy transformation. Also, I cannot believe how much you cram into a morning!
ReplyDeleteI love that you love Monday and that you enjoy all the time spent with students etc.
I shower at night, so it's just make up and hair in the AM
DeletePHEW is right. That is a busy day! Was your husband home to pick up Minnie and the other kids after school? What do you do on the days he's not there? (hint, hint... more DITL posts please!)
ReplyDeleteI'm exhausted just reading this. No clue how you manage the home life with so many people and all their schedules and on-the-go meals while juggling your demanding job. That's a lot. I'm dying at Minnie eating lunch at breakfast. Did she bring dry cereal to school for lunch? ;) And you find time to wipe down bathrooms. Wow.
ReplyDeleteShe took a bagel for lunch LOL
DeleteThat's such an early start and so much academic work, Sarah! It almost feels like the online teaching would tip things into being unmanageable for me... and I have only one (very laid-back) kid at home! You're truly phenomenal.
ReplyDeleteI've been doing it for so long, it just sort of gets folded in
DeleteYeah, wait, where is the puppy?!!? The entire morning I feel like would have been dominated by Charlie when he was that age. Or, um, still. LOL. Also, no mention of shower... how is that transformation possible? Seriously impressive!
ReplyDeleteI shower at night :) And I am off puppy duty on Mondays
DeleteThat 15 min transformation is IMPRESSIVE! You are aging so well - just in case you needed a reminder about that! You look gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI like that Minnie doesn’t feel the need to conform to society’s expectations around breakfast foods. I’m here for chips and salsa for breakfast!
thanks!
DeleteWhat a day. I am still amazed that you do the bathroom wipe down routine every day. It is just two people in this house and the bathrooms get neglected... How do you do it. Seriously.
ReplyDeletewith 6 or 7 ppl, the bathrooms really need it LOL
DeleteI had plenty to say, about Minnie doing yoga and you wiping down the bathrooms daily and just all of it, including that damn it I intended to buy some lox today and I FORGOT AGAIN. Sigh. BUT! Then I saw your book! I have it on hold at the library, but it's a 3 week wait and I'm looking forward to it. Maybe I'll just buy it from Audible (those credits aren't going to spend themselves) - Do you recommend? I heard the author on the radio, and I wrote down a bad paraphrase of something he said that resonated with me about books but also maybe about life. Here it is:
ReplyDeleteWe know, when reading page 2 of a novel, that by the time we get to page 400, the meaning of page 2 will be different than we expected.
I had to stop and just let that sink in. You KNOW on page 2, but you don't know what until page 400. <3
I like it a lot so far-- I enjoyed his other books on audible. They're kind of dense, so I feel like I have to read carefully to keep all the threads together. LOVE that quote from him-- totally applies to his books which seem so simple at first.
Deleteawwwww, thanks :)
ReplyDeleteI do a similar transformation on the mornings where I work, but I look worse than you before and not as good as you after - I never thought I could switch to showering at night, but it works.
ReplyDeleteChips and salsa and pb for breakfast - 10/10, no notes.
My niece used to do 'oga' too, and it was equally as adorable.
I feel like you've got your system DOWN PAT, and that's probably necessary with two adults working full-time and 5 kids and now a puppy! Your 15-minute transformation is LEGENDARY STATUS.
ReplyDeleteLook at you in your cute heart-shaped glasses and bed hair :)
ReplyDeleteI never listen to podcasts but I HAVE listened to Pod Save America in the last couple of weeks. These guys keep me sane.