Page from My Journal: Chronicling A Day in the Life of A Reader

Hello! My name is Jenny, and I am a wife, and stay at home mother to 2 little ones. We are also in a very long process of adopting a little girl. You can read my blog here.

This is my 4-year-old son, William. He loves using the camera (and took the picture of me above!).

This is our little girl Elisabeth, and she’ll be 2 in July.

Everyday here is different because my husband works a lot of different shifts and has different days off every week. Today is a Tuesday, and he leaves for work around 6:30am.

After he leaves, I’m usually up by myself for a few hours to do devotions, a workout, and some reading or sewing. I had a quilt top that I made and loved but just could not seem to add the backing. Then I realized it didn’t want to be a quilt, it wanted to be a skirt. So I was happy to oblige! :)

Around 9 o clock the children wake up. After breakfast, first thing they want to do is water the plants and feed the goats. We’ve got several plants on the porch that are their little garden.

Then we walk out to check on the grapevine and feed our 3 little goats. We just got one this week, so she is still adjusting. Pictured below is our boy goat, Humphrey. The 2 girls, Clementine and Marie, are a little skiddish around the camera flash.

Grapevine

We finally come in around 11:30am and have some lunch. After that we sit down to do school. Today the kids do some paints, stamping, and coloring. Then I read them a stack of books and go over a few memory verses and their Catechism (we use the Truth and Grace Memory Books-very similar questions to the Westminster Catechism).

After I get everyone’s hands cleaned up, they lay down for a nap around 2:30pm. Then I race around getting as much as I can cleaned while they sleep! I do some laundry, the dishes, sweep, and give my grandmother a call while I do some basic picking up.

Around 5pm the children wake up, and everyone gets changed out of their pajamas and into some clothes. Then I get the kids a snack (they’re on a yogurt frenzy lately) while I start making dinner. Rob (my excellent husband) doesn’t get home until around 8pm so I get everything fixed and ready for a big Greek Chicken Salad with spinach and rice.

The kids play until about 7pm, when they are off to get their bubble baths for the night. I let them play in the tub for a while, and then get them sweet and dressed for 8 o’clock when Rob comes home. He tells us about his day, and we eat dinner.

Then we get the little ones all tucked in bed, and he and I talk about our days with each other, and discuss things that we need to have done the next day. By now it’s about 10pm and we settle in to bed and watch the “The Biggest Loser” while we get sleepy. Around 11:30pm we turn off the TV and go to sleep. So, that was a Tuesday in the life of me!