Just Another Typical Day

Sometimes I like to browse through the etsy forums when I am needing an Internet fix and nothing else is going on. I've seen various posts that outline someone's day with their business. Some folks only do the craft thing, others are trying to work it in with their day job.

So, I was thinking about my day and how very little of the daytime hours are actually spent on Leave You In Stitches. Here's a basic outline:

6:30 - Kids wake up and start playing in their rooms. Talking to each other. I hear them but have somehow developed the ability to tune them out and go back to sleep. I NEVER used to be able to do this. Sometimes the older Twerp will yell at me to come let him out. I usually yell back "Just a minute!!" and go back to sleep.

7:00-7:30 - Can't ignore the kids any further and roll out of bed to get them out. Change diapers. Change clothes. Make breakfast. Make coffee. Feed kids. Go, go, go! What a nice peaceful way to wake up.

8:30? 9:00? Remember that full pot of coffee and have my first of many cups. Never did drink coffee before the twins were born, but now it's my crutch. Play on the floor with kids for a while. Read some books. Get the itch to check my Etsy shop.

10:00 - Laptop is calling my name. Open it up and check out my new orders. Answer convos. Browse around the front page and drool over all the stuff I would love to buy. Remember that the kids are awake and crawling all over me and spilling drinks/snacks/drool on me. Close laptop. The babies have recently dropped a morning nap. This time was AWESOME for a while because the big boy goes to preschool tues, wed, thurs and in this period I would go downstairs to my shop and get the previous nights' orders packed up and ready for shipping. Now they are awake all day and I basically play on the floor with them until it is time to get big bro. SO EXCITING! I just never get bored of interacting with 2 18 month olds all day.*

*sarcasm

1:00 - Have picked up the brother boy and now it's time for a nap! WOOHOO! Once I get them down then I get downstairs and either work on new orders or pack up finished orders. The packing up takes a surprisingly large amount of time, so most days that's all I have enough time to do during naps.

3:00 - Kids up, head to post office to drop off packages. I live in a neighborhood, but it's kind of in the sticks, dirt roads and all. Here we all have acres or more with lots of trees and a lake for swimming, and mountains in view. But, we don't get our own mailboxes. It's a tradeoff. Everyday I go to the Post Office to drop off, but the ladies there know my kids and I and it's kind of nice. And it's an excuse to get the fighting twerps out of the house for a little while.

After that, there's a lot more playing on the floor (or outside whenever this snow decides to clear out), dinner, baths, and finally, BEDTIME! Kids are all in bed by 7:30. I usually allow myself internet time until 8. So, that's when I answer convos, set up embroidery files for custom orders, answer emails. Facebook, twitter, blog. You know. And I make myself go to bed by 1:00. I listen to audiobooks while I get my orders sewn and the time really flies. Most nights I really look forward to my time down there. At the very least, it gets me out of laundry, heh.