The Typical Weekday

Our day gets going at 7:00, when Tam feeds the baby.  Around 7:30, I head to the school and have an open gym time for the committed kids who want to improve their basketball games, and this allows me to get a little exercise too.  Tammy puts Claire down for her first nap at 8:00, and has some breakfast, and then at 8:30, I return and she goes over to school.  I eat breakfast and try to get some studying done, and usually sneak some newspaper reading and obsessive weather watching in as well.  Zenita's nap is over around 10:00 or slightly after, and I try to feed her (solids or pumped milk in a bottle) then.  This can take a while as it isn't as good as "the real thing" and she is still more sleepy than hungry.  From 10-12:30 then I mostly play with Claire and try to get little things done around the house, or we'll watch some of my lectures together (she finds this very boring!).  At 12:30 mama comes home for feeding #3, and she usually sticks around until 1:45 or 2:00, at which time she returns to school to work.  Claire goes down for nap #2 or 3 (sometimes she has a short nap at 11:45 or so) at that point (and I do some more studying if I'm being good), and this lasts until 3:10, when I wake her up and take her over to school for feeding #4.  While at school I'm usually busy talking to the principal about fundraising or ordering basketball uniforms, or submitting reimbursement requests, or fixing computers so they work properly, or a million other little things that need to get done.  I take the baby back into my arms at 3:45, when Tam's students return, and I either keep working on the aforementioned stuff while carrying the baby, or I head home.  Hopefully I've thought about dinner before this point, and I begin to move toward making everything ready for that, while watching Claire, who goes down for nap #3 or 4 around 5:00.  While she sleeps I'm either working on dinner and listening to the news or studying.  Tammy usually returns home during this nap, and feeds the baby when she awakes around 5:45 or 6:00.  Then we have grownup dinner, usually between 6:30 and 8:00.  At 9:00 we try and get the baby down for the night, and hopefully she is really sleeping by 9:30, which ensures 9 and 1/2 hours of sleep.  Tam and I then make our way to bed usually around 11:00, but hopefully before then.  Phew!