Monday Madness – A Day in My Life

From time to time, I’m asked how I fit in exercise and balance it out with my family/work life.

Here is a brief synopsis of my day

• 4 a.m.  Alarm rings.  I say f*** it and go back to sleep.  (Note – this does not always happen.  Sometimes I actually wake up and train with Mel.  But sometimes I sleep through that too, and then she makes me do heavy weighted low squats at the next session.  It’s a nice reminder for me to set two alarms on training days.)

  

• 7 a.m.  My husband, Henri, says, “Wake up!  It’s 7!!!”  Mass chaos ensues as I fling carrot sticks and chicken into lunchboxes.  I eat grapefruit.
• 7:30 a.m. Henri takes our six-year-old daughter, Rylee, to school.  I argue with our four-year-old son, Henry, about getting dressed.  He is refusing to go to nursery school because he’s got a beef with another preschooler who won’t share his toys in the sandbox.  I try to coax him into clothing.  When it doesn’t work, I try to bribe him.  When that doesn’t work I start putting his favorite toys in a bag telling him he has to earn them back.  That works.  He’s dressed.
• 8 a.m.  I drop Henry at school.  He doesn’t want to get out of the car.  I remind him of the toys in the bag.  Miraculously, the car door opens.

  

• 8:15 a.m.  Go to gym.  I do my 20 minutes of cardio and then do my V ups, stomach tucks, pikes, and stretching for splits.  A trainer asks me if I am a gymnast.  That is the highlight of my morning.

  

• 9:30 a.m. Go home.  Clean up, dress, eat meal 1.
• 10 a.m. Pay bills.  Do laundry.  Clean up the disaster known as my living room.  It looks like a giant sneezed toys everywhere.
• 11 a.m. Eat meal 2.  Do more laundry.  Clean dishes in sink from last night.  Notice Halloween candy on counter…
• Noon.  Eat meal 3.  Print out tenant memos.  (Hey tenants:  Stop breaking the laundry machines!)  Try to write blog post, but internet is down.  Drive to work.
• 12:30 p.m.  Destroy things.  (We own an apartment building and I’m helping to renovate a unit this week. I got to knock out the shower tile.  Another highlight.)

  

• 2:15 p.m.  Drive home to pick up kids.
• 3:15 p.m.  Let kids eat Halloween candy.  Crash in bedroom for 15 minutes.
• 3:30 p.m.  Hit snooze.
• 3:40 p.m.  Heat up meal 4.  Drive to Henry’s TaeKwonDo.  Eat food while helping Rylee with her homework.
• 4:30 p.m. Drop off Rylee at Destination Imagination team meeting.  Take Henry home.  Do another load of laundry.
• 5:00 p.m.  Take nap while Henry plays on pbskids.org
• 5:30 p.m. Big Henri comes home.  I pick up Rylee and get bags of stuff from the team to assemble for the weekly group challenges.
• 6 p.m.  It’s Family Science Night?  Really? 

  

• 6:30 p.m.  *If you’re my trainer don’t read this*  Split hot dog, chips and soda with my husband.  Watch kids discover the wonderful world of science.

  

• 8:30 p.m.  Put the kids to bed.
• 9 p.m.  Text my clients to confirm schedules for the week.  This week everyone has to be early, since I’m construction chick.

  

• 9:30 p.m.  Eat meal 6 and blog.  Go to bed after post goes up.

So there is a day in my life, complete with a few mess ups on my meal plan.  How about you?  What does a day in your life look like?  When do you fit in exercise?

Lisa

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