A Day In The Life- Kindergarten

I wrote a few blog posts about our daily routine when Kaylee was a newborn, about one year, and again in preschool. I love looking back at the old posts and seeing how much (or little) my day to day life changes as Kaylee gets older. Our life is definitely not very entertaining on paper, but keeping with tradition here is a rough idea of what our day is like this school year:

5:20

• My alarm goes off and I quickly get my bathing suit on, pull on sweats, drink a glass of milk and drive to the gym.
• I swim for about 30 minutes, shower at the gym and come home.

6:30

•  I arrive home from the gym . Sometimes Kay is in bed waiting for me when I get home. Sometimes she crawls in bed with my husband as she waits for me and when I am super lucky she is still asleep!! Regardless, I start my treatments once I get home.

7:00-7:30

• I usually brew a cup of coffee for me and then start breakfast for everyone.
• I also do morning chores like empty the dishwasher, clean the breakfast dishes, and sometimes throw a load of laundry in the wash.
• Kaylee usually likes to draw, color, or read before school. The kid loves lazy mornings,

8:20

• By this point I have usually convinced Kaylee to get dressed, we brush her teeth and I do her hair.

8:40

• Kaylee has to double check her "school list" which is a chart Kaylee made (by drawing rather than writing) in the beginning of the year. It has all the essentials she needs for school including her school folder, water bottle, snack, etc.

9:00

• I drop Kaylee off at school. I always wait in line with her and then walk her to her class. She kisses me goodbye and I leave.

9:10-12:30

• I try to run errands, schedule appointments, and volunteer in her class during this time. When I am sick I try to SLEEP while she is gone which is a huge advantage to Kinder...I can get so much more sleep when sick. A few days a week my husband is home when Kay is at school so we get to spend time together which is really nice.

12:30

• I pick up Kaylee. There is a pretty big group of kids (and parents) that stick around after school to let the kids run around and play in front of the school. We almost always stay for about 30-60 minutes.

1:30-4:30

• We go home and eat lunch, go to the library, go to the park, read books, etc. We really do not have a whole lot of consistency to this part of our day.

4:30-5:30

• I make dinner and Kaylee helps on occasion. Often Kaylee does her homework while I cook so I can help her while she works at the kitchen table.

6:30

• If we eat early then I will do my treatments before Kaylee goes to bed. I much prefer this schedule because sometimes I am so desperate to fall asleep after putting Kay to bed and treatments feel like torture because I am so tired. And if I am not too tired, but my husband is home I prefer spending some alone time with him over spending our alone time doing treatments. However, depending on our afternoon plans I can't always pull this off.

7:30

• Kaylee gets ready for bed. We read every evening. Sometimes she wants to read to me and sometimes we take turns reading to one another.  I tell her a story (which is a tradition we have had for so long now I can't even remember when it started). Finally, I give her a counting challenge. One time when I was in the hospital my husband would count to Kaylee in Spanish until she fell asleep. When I finally got home she wanted me to count to her still so I counted to 20 in Spanish each night for her. Now that she is older I have her count to me (sometimes 1-100, sometimes by 5s or 10s, or I will tell her random numbers like count from 160-190).

8:30

• Kaylee is in bed and I do treatments if I haven't already. Depending on my husband's work schedule I either hang out with him or have a quiet evening to myself.

10:00

• Go to bed!