Day in the Life

A Day in the Life (July 2021)

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

I polled everyone on IG earlier this week about blog posts that people like the most and Day in the Life posts were by far the most popular. I realized it’s been a long time since I’ve done one, so I decided to document Tuesday, July 20, 2021. When I chose that day, I had no idea what our plans would be. Dustin was off work that day and we had zero plans, so I was hoping for an interesting day haha!

My alarm went off at 6 AM and I laid there for a few minutes before getting up. Don’t you love my background picture?! My sister took it the day after she photographed a beautiful wedding and we got to go and take advantage of all of the florals and decor before everything was cleaned up.

Coffee, first thing. I really aspire to drink water the first thing in the morning, but I just can’t bring myself to do it. I love my coffee maker so much and I exclusively order these pods from Amazon. I’m linking a very similar (probably newer design) Nespresso machine. It comes with a milk frother just like mine did.

I read some blogs and watched a little Million Dollar Listing New York.

Harrison woke up about 45 minutes after I did, so I went to get him up. He is always happy to see me in the morning 🙂 We’re also working on taking the paci away, so he only gets the paci during nap and bedtime. We’re about a week in and he’s done so good so far!

Everyone was awake!!! Harrison like to have his morning “coppey” which is what he calls coffee. He knows Dustin and I drink coffee, so one morning he started referring to his milk as his coppey and now that’s all we call it haha!

Harrison helped me make his kodiak pancakes. He loves helping in the kitchen, but sometimes he just wants to “color” which is scribbling on a notepad with a pen. Side note: I’ve noticed how he holds a pen the correct way already and I was shocked!!

Then we all watched the Blue Origin take off and land. Did you?

The I forgot to take pictures of the next couple of hours. I ran to the doctor for what I thought was simple lab work, but after waiting for 20 minutes, they are making me come back for an actual appointment before I can get lab work done. Ugh. Then I ran Harrison’s backpack, lunchbox, and nap mat out to my friend’s store to have her monogram them–and ended up staying over an hour to talk! I drove back home just in time to see Harrison get back from watching trains with his daddy.

This is how Harrison greeted me when I got home 🙂 He had lots to tell me about train tracks, garbage trucks, and mail trucks haha!

Then we all ate lunch. I snapped this picture to show y’all what I had been listening to throughout the day–it was a cute episode!!!

This is what I wore most of the day (minus the slippers). Love this workout top (this is the brand–they have other tank tops) and I’ve worn this brand of shorts since college.

During naptime and bedtime, we turn the air down to 70 degrees. I was freezing so I had to change into a tshirt and sweatshirt–and I’m still loving my Peloton!

I grabbed a cozy blanket, the remote, and my favorite snack (Orange tic-tacs….weird, I know haha) and watched Hallmark Christmas in July while Harrison and Dustin napped.

And then Harrison woke up in a great mood and wanted to watch the end of one of his favorite movies, Home Alone 2 🙂

After the movie, we loaded up in Dustin’s truck and went to grab a cookie and dinner!

Every night after dinner, Harrison gets a bath and then we read lots of books while he drinks some milk. This is one of the books we like to read and I love that it intertwines Spanish within the English. Harrison can say face in Spanish and now we’re working on fingers and toes.

He also likes to jump on Daddy’s back while I read, and I just keep reading through the chaos haha

We put Harrison to bed and got started hanging the new gallery wall. Out of the 6 frames, only 1 has a picture. I’ve got a few I need to order from my sister and mpix. We got the first row hung and it took us over a hour to do so we left it so I could get to bed. I like to go to bed before 10 and Dustin likes to stay up.

I showered and used my nighttime products. I LOVE this face balm and my skin has never felt smoother!

Then I use this nightly cream every other night and it contains retin-A.

Then I apply this moisturizer. It smells really clean and it only takes a little bit to cover your whole face and neck. Like I said, a little goes a long way!

And I finish with this eye cream! I got this sample from Sephora a long time ago and it’s lasted me so long that I will definitely be buying the full size once this runs out. I really like Tatcha products and I also use this under eye brightener before putting on my concealer.

Then I got into bed and did my quiet time before turning off everything by 10 PM! I hope y’all enjoyed this peak into a normal day during the summer!

My Perfect Fall Day

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Happy Thursday, y’all! It’s the last day of our Fall Favorites link up and I hope you’ve enjoyed either participating or reading it! As I was thinking about today’s prompt (which I’m really excited about), I realized how different these perfect days were going to be depending upon the season of life you’re in.

Since I’m in the season of life with an almost 7 month old (TOMORROW!!!!), mine is going to be way different than my life before becoming a mom lol!

I would start my perfect fall day sleeping in until 7am. I used to enjoy waking early (as in, between 6 and 7), but now that I am no longer in control over when I wake up or if I even get a full nights sleep, I’d like to sleep until 7….uninterrupted haha!

I’d want it to be a chilly morning so I can throw on pants, grab a blanket, turn on the fire, and drink a cup of coffee. This sounds so nice to me typing this out right now 😜 And Dustin would have Chick fil a breakfast waiting on me, too haha!

I would also not have to work on my perfect day, Dustin would be off of work, and we’d have Harrison with us.

After I spent a lazy morning drinking coffee, playing with Harrison, and watching The Today Show, I’d get ready and we’d go out to do some fall activity. I actually think it would be so fun to go to the zoo together. We took Harrison this summer and it was really hot, so I’m sure it’d be really nice in the fall–plus, I’m sure there would be fall decorations. And since the weather is going to be slightly chilly, I can wear fall clothes and not sweat.

We’d make it home in time for me to take a really nice afternoon nap. I’m talking a cold, dark room with Harrison’s sound machine on (the only way to sleep now haha!).

Dinner would be pizza from Domino’s or from our local pizza place downtown. Is it crazy that pizza is such a treat to me? And while we’re eating pizza, we’re (I say we’re but Dustin is weird and hates movies) watching either You’ve Got Mail or Beetlejuice!

This may not sound like much, but it doesn’t take much to please me these days. Any day that I get to spend with my boys is a perfect day…especially if it’s the whole day 🙂

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Day in the Life: A New Mom

Monday, July 22, 2019

Happy Monday, y’all!!!

Lots of firsts in today’s post and I’m so excited about it! First, I’ve been wanting to document a day in the life with Harrison since we brought him home, but I always felt so scattered without a set routine that it was hard to thoroughly document. Second, today’s post might be the first one that’s really picture heavy! I usually shy away from putting a ton of pictures in my posts because I know it’s overwhelming to read/sort through, but I tried to fully document this day so I could always remember what a normal day was like with my almost 5 month old.

Dustin had to work on Saturday and I knew it would be a typical day for Harrison and me, so that’s the day I chose! I did the best I could taking pictures, but you’ll see that I didn’t do so great after bath time ha!

**Side note: I haven’t been sleeping well at night the past week, so I’ve been letting myself sleep in WAY TOO LATE to make up for it. If you know me, you know that I enjoy getting up early in the morning, so this is the only non-typical thing about this post 😜

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Harrison first started stirring at this time (I could hear him and watch him on his monitor), so I took a screenshot thinking this would be the time I would be waking up. Turns out, he put himself back to sleep–which is typical for him!!

I meant to close my eyes for just a few minutes, but I accidentally slept another hour. This is when I woke up.

I checked the monitor and he was sound asleep!

(Yes he sleeps on his stomach. Yes he’s breathing–trust me. I know doctors now say “back is best” but Harrison can roll over and sleeps so much better on his stomach!)

The first thing I do every morning if I wake up before Harrison (which is what normally happens) is I make my spark drink. Also, our counter space has changed so much since having a baby haha!

I go and wake Harrison up at 8am to give him his first bottle (if he hasn’t woken up before that…which he normally doesn’t) and check out the look he’s giving me 😂😂 Don’t worry, he did smile soon after he got over being mad at me lol!

Since Harrison has reflux, we keep him upright 10-15 minutes after his bottle before we change his diaper, so we’re just hanging out before diaper change.

I was starving shortly after his bottle (usually I can wait until he goes down for a nap to eat) so I had to make my breakfast and I chose kodiak cakes.

Harrison went down for a nap at 9:30am so I did my morning cleaning routine. I took the clean dishes out of the dishwasher and put those away and began loading the dishwasher with the dirty dishes. I wiped down the counter tops and lit the candle.

I made our bed and this morning I also deep cleaned our bedroom and bathroom and dusted the living room.

Harrison woke up a few minutes before 11, so I fed him his bottle about 5 minutes early.

Then I changed his clothes for the day. He’s wearing his 4th of July outfit as much as he can this month haha! And he’s really into sticking his tongue out all the time!

We played during tummy time.

And then he played in his chair about 15 minutes…which is how long he lasts before crying. He’s still too small for this chair, so I have to prop him forward with a blanket and put a book under him to get him high enough to play. My tiny baby 😍

Harrison went down for his next nap at 12:45pm, so I showered….yay!!!! And wore athletic clothes because it was 95 degrees out.

Then I took a short break and watched some of the Hallmark Christmas in July movies while eating some Brookside chocolates.

I woke him up for his next bottle at 2pm and then we stayed upright for a little while after. He’s always such a happy baby!!

Then we had to run to Walmart to grab a few things we were out of and Harrison usually stares at me when we’re in unfamiliar places 🙂 Then once we got out to the car and ran into our outreach pastor, he decided to cry so we cut that visit short and put him down for a nap as soon as we got home–about 3:50/4ish.

I woke Harrison up for his next bottle at 5pm and he was in a much better mood!

That tongue!!

I needed to throw together dinner, so I put Harrison on the counter next to me while I cooked. He was happy about helping–and listening to good music!

I got stuff ready for taco salad.

And we decided to dance while waiting on Daddy to get home from work. (Harrison either holds onto my shirt or my neck when I hold him.)

I didn’t want taco salad, so I grabbed a glass pie dish and used 1/3rd of it to make oven baked nachos so I could have leftovers for lunch the next day!

But before I could eat, I quickly gave Harrison a bath while Dustin ate.

And then Dustin got Harrison’s jammies on him so I could eat. I grabbed a quick picture and said, “Harrison, smile” and he did! Love this sweet picture!

He’s also REALLY LOVING his hands in his mouth right now.

Then I didn’t get anymore pictures. 😞

Dustin always gives Harrison his 8pm bedtime bottle. I then get Harrison ready for bed and put him down before 9pm (Usually 8:45). Dustin went to bed shortly after because he was exhausted, and I stayed up watching Jurassic Park 3 🙈