A normal & boring day… plus a doctoral program application

It’s been a busy week at work! Putting out fires with the platform I manage all day long, and then several looooooooooong meetings with another team today. Dan – my husband – works from home 2 days a week, but then it’s just me the rest of the week.

Miles woke up at 5:30 this morning and after a bottle and some snuggles we got out of bed around 6:30. I fixed breakfast and got ready before taking over for Dan. If he’s working from home, we take turns but on days he leaves the house I need to at least have pants on before he goes otherwise it is too hard for me to actually get ready with such a clingy baby. Miles napped at 7:30 (zzzzz) and I got started on work early. He napped for a little under an hour, then I tried to entertain him which was not going well.

Because I was here by myself today, with a cranky baby who didn’t want to play, all while trying to stay out of the way of our cleaner, I was feeling a little bit stressed.

Here’s an example of a day when Miles actually ate his breakfast, unlike today when the dogs got all of it.

I loaded him up in the van and off we went to Chick Fil A to pick up breakfast for him, me, my mom, and my brother. He screamed the whole way from Chick Fil A to my mom’s house, and proceeded to then eat 2 pieces of hashbrown and mostly feed my mom’s dog.

Once I finished up with breakfast over there I came back home, feeling like I had sufficiently given the cleaner her space for an hour, and got to work. Ordinarily I don’t have childcare coverage early in the day, but had forewarned my mom I needed more help today because of all of my afternoon meetings, so she was ready for him.

Then I got stuff done at work, sat in meetings for a few hours, cooked dinner (quinoa, veggies, & shrimp!), applied for the Ed.D. program I’ve been looking at, and the baby is asleep on my husband now so I get to hop on here and say hello to all (none?) of you 😛

I have a Target drive up waiting for me, but do I just do it tomorrow instead when I need a little break? I mean they are delivering Starbucks with pickup orders now. I feel like I need to try that out and it’s 7:15, too late for coffee now. I think I will save it for tomorrow morning… something to do outside of the house!

Once I finish with this I think I’ll go take a bath (since I’ll do Target tomorrow) and maybe read. I was listening to Vladimir by Julia May Jonas today while working and honestly I’m not sure if I like it. Hopefully I’ll finish it by the end of the week and can move on to something else.

Tomorrow my mom will come over here to watch Miles around lunch, and I’ll work all afternoon again. I’ll either start early or finish after he goes to bed, rinse & repeat.