My Nanny Life

Sooo... I thought I'd entertain you all and myself by giving you the play-by-play for my week. Now... you may get fatigued just by reading this post, so be warned!!!

Monday:

8-8:40-- Feed Lizard (15 min.)
Brush Teeth and get both kids dressed (20-30mins)
Put Laundry in the washer
8:40-- Leave for Leah's school
9:10-- Home again, practice piano with Samuel (20 mins)
10:00-- free time/playdates
laundry in dryer
11:15-- lunch
12:10-- leave to walk to school
12:30-- drop-off to school
1:00-- pick up Leah from afterschool playdate
1:20ish-- put Leah down for nap
1:40/2:00 until 3:00-- fold laundry
maybe read or snooze
most often cleaning/writing notes for the days activities (I keep a detailed journal of the days)
3:00-- Get Leah up from nap
3:10-- leave to pick up Samuel
3:30-- home from pick-up
Feed Lizard (5-10 mins)
3:50-- Samuel pick-up or we walk to Envirocise (outdoor physical activity/science class)
Leah has free time or playdate
Put Laundry away
5:00-- pick-up Samuel from Envirocise-- walk home
5:30--Home again-- I cook while kids play/ "help"
5:50ish-- dinner
6:20-- clean-up dinner/dessert time
6:30/7:00ish-- I go home

Tuesday:

8-8:40-- Feed Lizard (15 min)
Teeth and clothes
9:00-- Practice Paino (20 mins)
9:30-- play time
10:00ish-- Grandma comes over to play with Samuel while Leah and I go to Gymnastics
10:45 to 11:30-- Gymnastics
12:00-- playdate/lunch
1:20ish-- nap time
2-3:00-- more cleaning, writing, relaxing
3:00-- Leah up from nap
3:10-- To school to pick up Samuel
3:30-- home from school
3:30-4:45-- play time!!
Feed Lizard (5-10 mins)
4:45-- leave for Ocupational Therapy
5-6:00-- OT
6:15-- home for dinner
6:30-- dinner
6:45/7:00-- I go home

Wednesday

8-8:40-- Feed Lizard (15 min)
Teeth and clothes
Pack Leah's lunch
Practice Piano (20 mins)
8:40-- Leave for Leah's school
9:00-- Drive to Jewish Communtiy Center (JCC) for swimming
9:15-10:30-- 30 min one-on-one swim lesson and then free swim
10:30-11:00--shower, cuddle-time and get dressed
11:15-- out to lunch
12:10-- walk to school
12:30-- drop-off at school
1:00-- pick up Leah, Ava and Jack from school
1:30-- arrive home
1:40/2:00-- Put Leah down for nap
2-3:00-- you know the drill
3:00--Get Leah up
3:10-- walk to pick up Samuel
3:30-- arrive home for free-time/playdates
4:00-- practice piano if we didn't get to it in the morning
bath for Leah
Feed Lizard (5-10 mins)
5:30-- dinner
6:30ish-- I go home

Thursday

8-9:00--Feed Lizard (15 min)
Teeth and clothes
Practice Piano (20 mins)
9:00-- Samuel picked up for "extraordinary kids" another science class
Leah Play time
10:20-- Leah picked up by gramps for Gymboree (10:45-11:30)
My time to clean and run errands
11:20-- Meet kids from extraordinary kids for lunch, Leah gets dropped off there by gramps
12:20-- drive to school
12:30-- drop-off
12:40 to 1:45-- playdate with Stephan or play at home
2:00-- Nap
2-3:00-- writing, cleaning, reading
3:30-- Samuel gets home (usually someone picks him up for me so Leah can have a full nap)
Leah wakes up
4:00-- free time/playdates/
maybe piano
Feed Lizard (5-10 mins)
5:30-- dinner
6:30ish-- I go home

Friday

8-8:40-- Feed Lizard (15 mins)
Clothes and teeth brushed
Laundry in washer
8:40-- Leah goes to school with her mom
9:00-- practice piano and then free time
10:10-- Leave for Piano Lesson
10:30-11:00-- Piano
11:15-- lunch at Einstiens usually
12:15-- drive to school
12:30-- drop-off
12:30 to whenever Leah comes home-- run errands, put laundry in dryer, clean
2:00ish-- Put Leah down for nap
3:00-- walk to get Samuel
3:30-- back home for playdate with Matthew and Jake
Leah wakes up
3:30 to usually through dinner-- playdate with M and J
Feed Lizard (5-10 mins)
Fold Laundry and put it away
5:45ish-- go pick up Samuel or boys get picked up from here
6:30ish-- I go home

PHEW!!! That was scary! I am so worn out when I think off all the things I do, I the places I take the kids... it's amazing all the things you can pack into one day. Now, mind you... the kids are supposed to have a bath every couple of days (my responsibiliy), they have random play dates/appointments squeezed in the few "free-time" spots, and all the other things that go into having kids and managing a household. Basically it's intense. I love it, but some times when I sit and think about it I go a little crazy. I guess I should stop thinking!! :)

Thanks for enduring a week of my life... hope you enjoyed the ride. altough I must say: it's much better with the kids!!