It seemed like a long day

Today I started with meditation at 6:00am. I then dressed myself and a toddler, brushed my teeth, then toddler teeth, my hair, toddler hair. Clips for Hazel too. Coffee, toddler tea (warm water honey and cream) and breakfast.

Set up to paint and film. Painted, filmed (badly). Ever try painting with a twenty six month old? It’s hard enough to film my own hand painting. This activity took all of seven and a half minutes start to finish because she was all done and it was clean up time.

Next we worked on the KDP page which I’ve filled out fifty times already, but never with a toddler on my lap who is desperate to ‘help’

Then she wanted me to peel an orange. She ate about a third of it. Then she wanted a pear, ate three bites. Then we played with her doll house for another seven minutes. Then we sent emojis to Grandpa G. Then she wanted an apple, which there were none. She spent a full minute looking in the cupboard before announcing that no there weren’t any apples.

Tried to work a little more on the page. Somehow it was exasperating and she ran to the carpet and laid face down. We tried a little breathing. She popped her head up and was ‘all better’ so we decided to go to the park. We had to spend some time picking out shoes and putting them on first. This is a pic from yesterday. Shoes take longer than seven minutes. Every day.

The park was fun. Hazel got a good run. we all had a good run, back and forth at the corn hole court. Hazel was so well behaved she needed a treat. We crossed the street carefully and walked home.

Doll house play, Snack time, followed by sandbox time, ball playing with Hazel, and tree hugging ( I didn’expect that). More dollhouse and finally lunch. How many different things can we squeeze into a morning? By 12:30, I wanted a nap!

Nap time came and went. Then momma cooked dinner while Daddy and I ran in circles, played house and listened to Frozen songs. Some drawers were emptied, a snack was made and nibbled at. We worked on the cover and getting everything uploaded. (I was skeptical about making a print on demand copy of my first book after trying and then struggling to get the digital copies to upload, but my son wanted to see if we could do it) with his tech skill.

I changed a few things and reformatted it yesterday.

Right before we sat down for supper, we approved everything and hopefully a book called A Peaceful Heart will show up in Amazon.

Supper was delicious. No we could NOT play baby bird. Momma was a firm no. Bedtime at last. The grownups were all exhausted.

So yeah, a full day.