{"id":27,"date":"2012-08-25T03:14:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T03:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2012-08-25T03:14:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T03:14:32","slug":"day-5-aka-the-end-of-the-stay-at-home-mom-work-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 (aka &#8220;the end of the stay at home mom work week&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok\u2026it\u2019s the final day of my stay at home mom \u201cwork week\u201d and I can\u2019t shake the impression that it has mostly been filled with zany antics and nutty goings-on.\u00a0 In fact, all day I expected Lucille Ball to show up, at which point we\u2019d be forced to start shoving candy into our mouths because the conveyor belt was going too fast.\u00a0 But let me itemize what the day entailed so we can decide together if I\u2019m actually getting the hang of this thing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Got up at 6:10 only to find one child in my bed and the other in my bathroom.\u00a0 They have this weird sixth sense when my husband is out of town which causes them to migrate into my room in the early morning hours.<\/li>\n<li>Got everyone dressed (except for me), got breakfast made (cold cereal, screw the scones).\u00a0 Lunches were already packed \u2013 I did \u2018em last night when I was cleaning up from dinner.\u00a0 I\u2019ve read all those Time Management articles in Redbook too!<\/li>\n<li>After I opened the garage door to get ready for the carpool, I proceeded to dance around in my pj\u2019s for 10 minutes due to the snake that slithered out (which the kids insisted was a baby rattler).<\/li>\n<li>Lots of picture-taking ensued and of course it was absolutely vital that we call the kids-on-the-way-to-the-bus-stop over to lend their opinion as to the identity of the snake (yep, baby rattler).<\/li>\n<li>Coming to my senses and realizing that I was still dressed in my pj\u2019s (which are really just an oversized 95%-off, 4<sup>th<\/sup> of July t-shirt) I made a mad dash up the stairs to get something presentable on before the carpool lady swung around the corner.<\/li>\n<li>Oddly enough, when she arrived she refused to let her kids out of the car to see the snake, so my two hopped in and off they went to school.\u00a0 All of this put us at about 7:15 am.<\/li>\n<li>I then texted pics of the snake to my parents and husband.\u00a0 The verdict was a baby bull snake.\u00a0 It looks just like a rattle snake, except without the rattle.\u00a0 Duh.<\/li>\n<li>Didn\u2019t run.<\/li>\n<li>Didn\u2019t shower.<\/li>\n<li>Instead &#8211;\u00a0for the next 2 hours I checked email, which devolved into looking at dumb \u201ctop news\u201d stories online: Jesus Fresco Fiasco, What to Buy\/What to Skip at Yard Sales, Lance Armstrong Stripping (or was he being stripped of something?), Jennifer Hudson Stuns in\u00a0Minidress etc.<\/li>\n<li>When I realized it was 9:30, I had to fly out of the house because the cleaning ladies were coming at 10 and I wanted to eliminate any possibility of them catching me skulking out of my own dirty house without a job to my name.<\/li>\n<li>Swung by the post office to drop off 3 thank you notes (even though I have a perfectly serviceable mailbox in front of my house).<\/li>\n<li>Stopped at the bank to deposit two checks that were so piddling I would normally have just cashed them.<\/li>\n<li>Spent 3 hours at the jewelry store talking to the nice, patient lady about resetting my diamond (hey, I\u2019ve got TIME to kill and I was just looking!!!).<\/li>\n<li>Went to Ulta to use my $3.50-off-a-$10-purchase coupon.\u00a0 Turns out I also had $3.00 in rewards points accumulated so I got $11 worth of stuff for only $4.\u00a0 Score!<\/li>\n<li>Returned a $14 headband my daughter didn\u2019t want to a chi-chi sports store at the mall.\u00a0 Going into this place is like going to a whole \u2018nother planet where they don\u2019t sell clothes beyond a size 12 (because \u201clarge\u201d people don\u2019t sweat?!) and where unused $14 headbands intended for\u00a010 year old girls can\u2019t be returned.\u00a0 But they returned it for me \u201cjust this once\u201d because it was \u201ctheir bad\u201d that they didn\u2019t tell me the policy when I purchased the headband yesterday.\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0 Crisis averted.<\/li>\n<li>Had an hr. + conversation with my sister on the phone.<\/li>\n<li>Went to pick up the kids \u00bd hour early and lucky for me there were other moms there early too\u2026so we got to chat for a bit about the upcoming school fundraiser; how the first week of school went for everyone; what kind of homework each grade had; what everyone was doing for the week-end etc.<\/li>\n<li>Took all the kids in the carpool home and during the ride &#8211;\u00a0when they complained about being hungry &#8211;\u00a0I passed out fruit-flavored\u00a0hard candies to one and all!<\/li>\n<li>When I got everyone dropped off, I\u00a0turned around and brought my son to the doctor to check a growth on his knee (it\u2019s a wart, put duct tape on it).<\/li>\n<li>Met some neighbors on their back deck for a beer (or three) while my husband took my son and his friend to football practice.\u00a0 (My husband is the coach, otherwise I would have driven.\u00a0 Really.)<\/li>\n<li>When my husband called to say they were on their way home and to ask when\u00a0dinner would be ready, I told him to order pizza and dinner would be ready shortly after that.<\/li>\n<li>Big pause on the phone followed by \u201cseriously?!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And so it goes.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s coming along nicely, don\u2019t you?\u00a0 I just wish I had Lucille Ball\u2019s phone number.\u00a0 I\u2019d invite her to lunch.\u00a0 We\u2019d have lots of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok\u2026it\u2019s the final day of my stay at home mom \u201cwork week\u201d and I can\u2019t shake the impression that it has mostly been filled with zany antics and nutty goings-on.\u00a0 In fact, all day I expected Lucille Ball to show up, at which point we\u2019d be forced to start shoving candy into our mouths because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}