A day in my life
A lot of you have asked me how I find the time to write and jazzercise and start a preschool and keep the house running.
Well, here’s the secret.
I have Hermione’s Time Turner.
Okay, so I don’t have Hermione’s Time Turner but wouldn’t that be just the thing? Sorry, I’m just gearing up for Book Seven.
Anyway, here’s a rough schedule of my day:
6.30am: Alarm rings. We don’t get up until 7am, to get breakfast for the girls. Sometimes they have cereal in the car if we decide to sleep in a bit. Lokes makes eggs when he feels like it. I pour cereal :D
8.20am: I head out with the girls for jazzercise at 9.30am. Drop Lokes off at the office (when he’s home) and then drop the kids off at the childcare next to the gym.
10.30am: Jazzercise is over. Pick kids up and head home for lunch. We have simple stuff like cheese and ham quesadillas or sandwiches, soup or salad. Very quick to prepare.
12 noon: Put Sky down for her nap. Sometimes I nap too with Rae playing computer games next to me. Most of the time, I check my emails.
1.30pm: Sky wakes up and the girls play. They play very well together now and I can leave them in their play room for a couple of hours. Sometimes I set the pool up and they splash outside. Sometimes we go to the park for the day. Sometimes we do art outside but only when Mommy feels like cleaning up two very paint-splattered girls after.
3pm: Get the girls their snack of crackers and fruits.
4.00pm: When my in-laws were not here, I would take dinner I’ve prepared the night before out, to reheat/prepare rice/stirfry a vegetable.
5.00pm: Out to pick Lokes up from the office.
5.45pm: Home for dinner. Lokes has the girls after this.
6.45pm: The girls wind down with a bath and get ready for bed.
7.30pm: Lights out for the girls. Lokes and I bathe and what not, before going downstairs to prepare tomorrow’s ‘menu’.
8.30pm: We are done and have until midnight to do our own thang.
Of course, now with my in-laws here, we don’t do meals and we have some evenings to ourselves, where I attend my preschool meetings and so on.
I usually vacuum the house during the weekends and wash the toilets once every fortnight. I take the girls grocery shopping middle of the week to beat the traffic.
There you have it. See, you don’t need a Time Turner.
Maybe a little Tina Turner might help:)
ps. Lokes does the laundry 
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June 19th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
OMG Jenn… ur gals sleep at 7:30pm? :jaw dropped:
At 7:30pm. we are only having our dinner or maybe just returned from the park. My gals wont sleep until around 11ish pm. So i can only steal a few hrs here & there throughout the day to do my own work.
U r doing such a great job there & managing everything so well.
June 20th, 2007 at 5:10 am
it’s summer now and it screws up the sleeping schedule coz it is still quite bright at 8pm and gets so bright (dawn) at 5.30am.
The small one sleeps at 8pm latest now (summer) but used to be by 7.30pm then. The big one now at 9.30pm but used to be by 9am.
Moreover in Sept, kindy starts at 8.30am and I think the big one has to start sleeping by 8.30pm latest to wake up the next morning.
I am doing night potty training for the big one now and started to put both of them in the same room/bed too. Have to get them used to used it before Sept.
June 20th, 2007 at 7:09 am
Shireen: Rae used to do that back home in Malaysia before she was two and it drove me nuts. So I trained her when I was preg with Sky and by the time Sky came, we had a schedule. It wasnt easy but the bath n stories help. I went for a kindy preparedness class and the speaker said the top two things that kindergarteners shld go to school with are a full stomach and enough sleep. Apparently preschoolers need 11-13 hours sleep. Rae wakes up at about 6.30am so she is only getting her minimum (and she doesnt nap anymore).
Topaz: Yea I know! We are making dark blue curtains. The girls are getting used to the early/late daylight now. Well, I dont really give them a choice lol.
June 24th, 2007 at 8:16 am
Ahhh.. my brat sleeps at the earliest.. 11.30pm.. and most times.. we have to fight her. She wakes up at 7am.. and then goes back down for another nap.. and wakes up at 9am. If i was the one waking up with her at 7am.. she prolly won’t go back to sleep. I truly envy you .. that your gals sleeps at 7.30pm. That’s just too cool..!