Today in the life

Here is what my week day life is like:

wake up at 5:45a 
do 1/2 hour P90X3 work out
Feed animals-birds, dog
wake Boy up
Take shower
wake Boy up again
make bed, clean up bedroom
pick out clothes
wake Boy up...again
make breakfast
make smoothies for work lunch
get dressed
get Boy out of bed
make sure Boy brushes teeth and gets dressed
eat breakfast
make sure Boy is still wearing clothes
put make-up on
leave house 8:35a
drop Boy off at preschool
drive to work
work, work, and more work 
on Thursdays work 13 hours locking show get home at 11p
leave work on normal days at 7p
drive home, get home around 7:30p
make lunches
eat dinner with boys
give Boy a bath
get Boy ready for bed
get self ready for bed
read Boy story
put Boy to bed
say good night to Husband
walk dog 10 min-30min
watch 1 hour TV depending on fatique factor
go to bed at 10pm
start all over again

here is my life in pictures

ook professional

Updates in pictures.....no particular order

Me at work where I always am producing animation...

We go to Bobs Big Boy sometimes for breakfast on the weekends. The Toot loves to say hi to Bob

Just your normal family photos...

The Toot at school learning how to write

miniature golfing with Husband

good hair day

hot day retreat at the mall with the toot

shuttle ride to the Hollywood bowl with The Toots school chums

being professional in my office

being "tough" with Thor

My happy little school boy

Monday

Each week feels a little more normal. Trying for some type of routine. Trying to exercise and eat right starting this week. Last weeks goal was to exercise, and I managed 3 days. Which honestly is a huge step forward. So this week I'm trying for 6 days, or at least 4. One step at a time. The house is coming along too. This weekend we made some headway. It feels like a full time job that we are only able to do on the weekends. Some pics until I have time to write. Which may be never, seeing how my actual job and this house consume my every waking hour, along with my child, my husband and my dog, in no particular order...

'Rita', that's what we named her 

The Boys cleaning the pool

The Toot and Best Friend

The Toot spontaneously napping on the lounge chair outside

Barn-dog and the chair Grandma gave The Toot for Christmas. We call it the Hummingbird chair, cause the Tootie sits in it and watches all the hummingbirds at theh feeder.

what happened

So here's what happened. I got promoted to Producer. I bought a house. I moved. I'm adjusting to all this. Here's some pictures from the recent months in no particular order...

moving makes me and Barnaby want to sleep

The Toot likes the new house

Husband likes having a wood burning fireplace

A little bit of Dad time in the new casa

The Toot can now pick flowers from the yard.

Heres what 38 looks like

Heres what plumber found in my new bathtub drain, it's a braid and I don't think its mine...

Me at Calarts recruiting kids, when did college students become kids in my mind and how on earth am I able to recruit anyone?

The Toot getting hives from all the changes, poor baby.

the hives got worse and Momas heart broke even more...

Humpday

Wednesday and counting down to girls weekend....here's my life right now in bits and pieces until I have time again to write...

Daily posts

Ok. I've been working, living, trying to manage. But now its time to reconnect. so here it goes. Daily posts of whatever I have. One liners.

Todays post: pictures only.

Chaos

When you have kids Chaos is just part of the norm. It's taken me a long time to get used to it. Now I'm working on the next level, enjoying it. It seems almost insane to say that I'm trying to enjoy Chaos, because it's like saying you want to enjoy a tornado, but for me this is something I know I have in me to do. I know there is an adventuresome spirit inside me that loves the craziness of a full life. The problem is my life is so full, it's spilling over the edges. For example yesterday morning: Husband was in the bedroom doing a work out video. The bedroom door was open and he was also periodically running throughout the house to use a pull up bar he had attached to the kitchen door frame, as well as a chair he was using in the hallway (don't ask). This video lasted for an hour and a half. We would occasionally see sweaty Husband bypass us in the hallway grunting while doing push ups or hanging from the kitchen doorway doing pull ups. While this was happening 3 year old was crawling around on hands and knees with a dog toy in his mouth pretending to be a puppy. Simultaneously to all this, our actual 80 pound puppy is running back and forth from the back patio into the house with a gallop and speed of a dressage horse. I do my rounds while I tidy up, checking on all the males in my home in their personal realms of Chaos when I realize that the dog has not only found the neighbors doormat to shred into pieces, but has also pushed their front door open and is about to wander inside when I catch him. This is the type of Chaos I'm talking about. 

Now something I've realized in this learning process is that it never lasts too long. My tolerance is still not high enough yet to outlast the Chaos, but I'm working on it. Knowing when to hold em, fold em, or walk away has been optimal to the learning process. It all kind of comes in waves, and if you can just hang on, eventually you will be lifted up and out to dry land. Like right now for instance; I'm happily typing away on our new lap top, while the dog is laying in a sunny spot on the patio, 3 year old is in his room playing by himself and Husband is doing laundry. So there is beauty in all of this, it's just about having the patience to get there. Phew, and I'll tell ya-I'm not sure I'm gonna make it, but at least I'm trying.