mommy confession: day in the life

i'm going to tell you about my day...

i woke up to selah screaming from a nightmare at about 3am.

my brain was ready for the new day, my body was not.  

i didn't get back to sleep til about 5.

we were all out of bed by 7:30 this morning - later than usual.

we were out of waffles.

selah loves waffles right now, 

so i've been making them weekly and freezing them for breakfast.

this morning i made about two dozen waffles 

while packing the girls lunches and eating my own breakfast.

we all walked to school as a family today, even barley came!

barley was invited to visit selah's class, 

but her teacher was sick today so we'll try again another time.

when i got home, i realized emery did not have indoor shoes at school.

i hurried back to the school, so that she wouldn't be going barefoot all day

(emery doesn't wear socks very often).

upon my second return home,
i cleaned up the house and washed the dishes.

while working away in the girls room i got sidetracked...

the girls have a playmobil house with furnishings and everything 

that they got from auntie beth for christmas!

i haven't really had a chance to play with it yet...

so i set it all up the way that i would enjoy it!

kinda fun.

then i checked my email and had some lunch.

after lunch i went for a walk (5k roundtrip) to the superstore, 

picked up a few things, and headed back home.

fortunately i had a book in my backpack,

which came in handy when i realized it wasn't really
worth heading all the way home 

when i needed to pick the girls up from school in half an hour.

so i stopped at a fun little bakery (black sea bakery) 

for a blueberry scone 

(i do believe it was heavily drizzled with white chocolate) 

and read a couple chapters of the mocking jay

(have you read the hunger games?)

on to school from there to get the girls.

we had a very windy walk home (weather changed quickly).

so windy that's selah's white fuzzy hat blew off her head into the mud!

emery gave selah her hat, i gave emmy mine,
my hood was up and away we went!

afterschool we had a playdate with the girls' best friends:
katie and ainsley.
i got to catch up with my friend ali.

though i forgot to prep dinner before they arrived,
still pulled together a nice meal

 before jude was back to work to teach tonight.

after dinner the girls and i played in the basement, 

princesses and puppies and that sort of thing.

then we read mr. men and little miss books to each other
on the couch before heading up for bedtime.

bedtime was going fine until selah realized that a stuffie 

from days gone by was her absolute favourite
and she needed it to fall asleep.

after searching for it in the basement, 

emery remembered that she and selah had agreed
to give that stuffie away 

(it was missing an eye afterall...) a few months ago.

this made selah very, very sad.

i looked again in the giveaway zone in the basement...

 no biscuit (name of the dog stuffie).

selah cried for about 45 minutes 

(not sure i've ever seen her so heartbroken).

after some cuddles and a drink of water and some sore eyes
i was able to read her to sleep.

thank goodness for magic treehouse.
5 minutes into cryfest,
emery realized she would be better off falling asleep in our room...

now i've had my own bedtime snack and
i'm going to go read myself to sleep.

a full day. 

i don't share it boast (or complain).

but just because it's real...

and too be honest it was a day that i felt good 

about how i dealt with the highs and lows that came my way.

how was your day?

(iphone)

because a post wouldn't be complete without a photo,

this is how the walls were painted in the restroom of the bakery - amazing!