A Day in the Life - Annual Leave Monday

I was on annual leave today since our Nanny is currently on holiday.  I figured I would do a DITL post but I did not do great at taking photos of the cuter moments... so here goes!

6:05am walk up, go downstairs and have coffee, work on time log, pack kids lunches.  

6:30am Ezra comes downstairs, Aubrey is awake and Andy brings her downstairs, quickly finish the Lily's August photos for her album.

7:00am Andy starts breakfast, I get Clara & Lily up and dressed

7:40am Start laundry and handover kids breakfast from Andy.  Make scrambled eggs because the big kids have each eaten a whole bagel and are asking for more food.  Quickly eat 2 eggs on a bagel because I'm trying to eat protein for breakfast (and also to eat breakfast)

8:00am Tidy up breakfast, everyone goes upstairs to brush teeth.  

8:30am Leave for school on time! Then have to turn around and go home because both kids forgot jackets

8:40am Leave for school again.  Have to hurry

8:55am School starts.  I've arranged a double play date for the afternoon - Lily and Ezra are both having a friend over.  I confirm pick up details with parents and teachers.

I've been working on a project to get rid of clothes and I had a super cute halloween outfit from when Lily was small and I saw a baby at school drop off and gave it to their mum and hopefully she didn't think it was too weird.

Lily was not the most photogenic

9:15am Back home, change twin nappies, get the twins in the car, drive to play group

9:45am I recently found a new Monday play group at a slightly further away church.  It has the absolute best cake of any group and this morning did not disappoint.  I had a cup of tea and a brownie, and then later a slice of lemon cake because I paid for 2 kids so I get 2 cakes right?  The twins played with cars and enjoyed snack and story.  

11:30am Home from play group. Twins play in the house while I make lunch (scrambled eggs, because they didn't have eggs for breakfast).  I also make a list of dreams for what I want to accomplish during naptime, and also add estimates of times because I knew I probably wouldn't have time for it all

11:50am Twin lunch.  I start to make muffins for snack during the play date later

12:15 twins in bed.  Time to tackle this mess:

12:30 Eat a classic mom-lunch: scrambled eggs with siracha.  Yes, this is my second egg based meal of the day. Oops

12:45 Muffins are done, as is the bread Andy put on this morning.

12:50 Often times I spend too much of nap tidying up so I set a 20 minute timer and manage to sort the kitchen and hall and dining room, including hoovering.  But the living room still looks like this, which is probably fine because it would look like this later.  Not pictured - hanging out laundry

1:15 Go upstairs to do a 30 minute yoga video.  It was great.  My hips were sore from my run yesterday (ill advised 10 mile run where I mostly ran out of steam at mile 8 and totally ran out at mile 9).  I remember that I need to make dinner during nap time as well.

1:50pm quick pick up of Ezra's room.  Bring laundry down from air drier into bedroom

2:00pm Start dinner prep.  Making tuna stuffed shells from my new favourite cookbook of family friendly meals

2:30pm Done!

2:35pm Sit down to have a quick salad before it's time to pick up kids.  Make two boring life admin phone calls. Day take a turn when....

2:40pm School calls to tell me Lily has just been ill in class and needs to be picked up.  I had been warned that there is a virus circulating her class right now.  I ask the school if I can also pick up Ezra (since school ends at 3:30 anyways, and if Lily is ill she's not going to want to walk to school pick up.  The school says they will get both kids.  I quickly wake up twins and walk to school and call both playdate parents to let them know we have to postpone.

3:00pm collect Lily and Ezra from school.  Lily is out for at least 48 hours.  Ezra is very sad to not have a play date today

3:10pm Arrive home. Lily says her stomach hurts, then proceeds to vomit on the kitchen floor.  Tile is such a good choice! I panic and clean it up with dish towels because that was all I could reach.  Lily makes it to the bathroom while I ask Ezra to sort out snack for himself and Aubrey & Clara. He does an amazing job, he's only 6 and managed to get them each a muffin and peel and distribute satsuma slices.  I call Andy and ask him to come home from work.

3:20pm put Lily in the bath.  Try to keep Lily separate from everyone else.  Wash my hands 100 times.

3:45pm Andy gets home and takes the twins and Ezra to the park

4:00pm Lily is still being sick often. She also watches some spider man TV show

4:05pm I tidy the kitchen... again.

4:15pm sort and put away laundry.  Empty kids backpacks.  Put dinner in the oven.  Bring in laundry from outside.  Empty dishwasher.  Light my new autumn candle I got from Homesense (£30 marked down to £9!)

5:30pm Settle Lily upstairs, everyone else has dinner.

6:10pm Twin bathtime.  Andy does twin bed.  I help Lily, who falls asleep around 6:45.

7:00pm Ezra shower and bedtime.  He reads me a story

7:30pm Ezra lights out.  Andy has cycling on a monday, so I go downstairs to tidy up the dinner dishes, lounge, kitchen, and dining room again.

8:30pm Lily is awake again.  I finish the last load of Laundry

Then I reply to some texts and order new stick on labels for the kids school clothes. Lily lays down in my bed while I write this long blog post

9:45 finish writing this blog post.  There were lots of interruptions (Lily's stomach hurts... another water, a slide of toast, the toast was not a good idea, laying down on the sofa, laying down in bed).  

And that was a day of annual leave from work!

I am of course very hopeful Lily feels better soon.  I am also very hopeful this doesn't spread through everyone in the house.  I also think it's highly likely that by Sunday (my Half Marathon) I will be suffering from a stomach bug.  But I'm trying not to worry about Sunday, because there are a lot of other days to make it through first.

When I go back to work tomorrow (Andy has the day off for kids, hopefully Lily will be well enough to have a calm day with the twins) people will ask me how my long weekend was.  I sometime struggle to reply.  I guess... good?