My husband and I debate on a regular basis what a "normal" household is like. I won't say who believes what or how we each define "normal," but I will say the following is a typical, low-stress 4-hour snapshot of our household.
6am - baby wakes
6:07am - baby cries. Is up for good.
7:17am - baby almost asleep, 3yo starts yelling "MOM!" from her bedroom, interspersed with fake crying.
8am - baby down, 3yo still alive and without injury. Walk downstairs on "stilts" with 3yo so we can wake teenager.
8:04am - feed 3yo waffles with blueberries and try to convince her marshmallows aren't a breakfast food.
8:20am - Wake teenager.
8:22am - Wake husband.
8:25am - Wake teenager.
8:35am - Wake husband. By which I mean tell him to get up NOW or we'll never make it to the doctor on time.
8:35
- 9:30 Various things, including get ready to go to pediatrician and
somehow convince 3yo I'm building a Lincoln Log farm with her although
I'm really eating cereal and loading the dishwasher. Register 16-year-old for traffic school. Order
new blanket for baby that will magically make baby sleep through the
night. Check FB, which is exceedingly boring so far since no one else is
cool enough to be checking FB at 8:45am on a Friday. During shower,
receive text from teen stating he simply cannot make it to first period
today so is it okay if he just stays home?
9:50am - 3yo sees reflection in stove and provides husband and me with general amazement at how cute she is:
10am - minutes after I clean the baby with a wet wipe in effort to convince the pediatrician we actually bathe the child on a regular basis, baby pees all over his changing table, managing also to get pee in his hair, in his ear, and on his face, arms, and legs. Re"wash" baby.
Normal? One of us thinks so.
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