Hola gorgeous goddesses,
I am always intrigued by how others spend their days… How the moments and movements of life make up a day.
And even though my life changes day to day as it revolves around the star Ostara… There is a certain rhythm to be found.
Here’s one of my days lately…
Woken up at 6:30am by a little mermaid nuzzling at my arm for a feed. Chris brings me peanut butter on rice thins and a cup of herbal tea for breakfast.
Feed until 7:30am, get up and do some household stuff one-handed with little mermaid under one arm. Get Chris to do some daddy cuddling while I take a shower.
10am: convince Chris we need to go to Muffin Break. Feed little mermaid before we go and bundle her up into the car. I sit in the back seat next to her while Chris drives his Miss Daisies.
11am: gluten free spinach and fetta muffin with philli cheese. Om nom nom!
11:30: grocery shopping, peeks into bookstores.
1pm: home again. Feeding time again. Chris makes me lunch (vegetable and hommus wrap) and I eat one handed.
2pm: lay down with little mermaid, nap, feed. While she sleeps I sleep or read a book or itouch away.
3:30pm: get out of bed. Go for quick walk. Clean up house, start making dinner. Watch an episode of Community or Modern Family while feeding.
5:00pm: eat dinner. Give little mermaid a bath, get her ready for bed. Somehow squeeze five minutes to brush my own teeth and have a shower.
6:00pm: bedtime for little mermaid and this big mermaid. Oh yes, I go to bed at 6pm now! It’s my way of surviving 
. We usually nurse for an hour before she falls asleep and I lay her down next to me.
6pm-6am: little mermaid wakes between 1-5 times during the night. There’s usually a four hour patch of sleep at the start, then 2-3 hour patches after that. When she wakes up, we nurse for about an hour until she’s asleep again. Wake up in the morning with a half asleep Ostara nuzzling at my arm… once she awakes she chuckles and gives us the biggest smiles in ze world.
On the weekdays when Chris is working, I keep the same rhythm of busy mornings and quiet afternoons.
One morning a week I go to Infant Massage class, another morning I go to our mama’s group.
The other days I stay at home, do washing (surprisingly therapeutic!), make our cottage as zen and lovely as can be, and bake stuff. I crank up our dehydrator to dry fruit & make raw cookies. I make spinach and fetta muffins, vegetable frittatas & raw lemon coconut slice. I am totallly becoming a domestic goddess… If only I didn’t dislike the word domestic so much… It sounds too much like septic! Maybe I shall rename myself Goddess of the Haven instead . Yes, that is muchos better.
I keep busy and moving in the mornings because Ostara gets bored if I’m sitting down… She needs action and movement and interesting things! If we are with other people, or talking on skype she is all content to sit on her mama’s lap and watch and hear… Me thinks this Aries goddess is an extrovert who likes movement
My days are soooo different to what they were before… Slowly but surely we are finding our new dance step though!
And I know things will change again when we move (TWO FLIPPING DAYS!!!!!!!)… but here’s the polaroid of our days right now… (Remind me to do another routine post in a couple of months to see how things are different again!)
What about you dearest heart? How do you spend your glorious days? I would love to hear about goddess’ days around the world…
Love,
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4.30am – Wake up as hubby’s alarm goes off for him to go to work. I roll over and snuggle the pooch while hubby gets dressed and makes his lunch….and I stay in bed
5.30am – Hubby leaves for work, the pooch and I spread out to take over the whole bed and go back to sleep or read a book.
6.30am – alarm goes off. Some mornings I get up and go bush walking for an hour. Others I reset the alarm and go back to sleep.
7.30am – shower and dress for work to leave at 8am.
7.59am – drag reluctant pooch off the bed and outside passing him a doggie treat as he goes through the back door. Smile at his sad face as he knows it is time for me to go.
8.15am – 5pm – work.
5.15pm – arrive home, change, open the back door and prepare for large dog to jump all over me excitedly. Pat and love him for a good 30mins while contemplating what to do for dinner.
5.45 – 6.45pm – Get to watch any movie or show on TV that I want till Hubby arrives home.
6.45pm – hubby arrives home…showers…eats…collapses on couch.
9pm – Let the dog back inside and laugh as the heads straight for the bed.
9.15pm/9.30pm – Climb into bed moving around the dog who always claims the middle. Smile as once again hubby swears this is the last time the dog sleeps inside. Fall asleep always on my side with one arm under the pillow and one over the blanket..legs carefully placed around the large dog who takes up half the space.
Repeat for Mon – Fri
xxoo
Mine changes as I work 3 days and have 4 off
My work days are sooooo busy and I barely get time with my kids.
Basically
7am – wake up, shower, get kids breakky, make lunches, feed cat, empty litter tray, do kids hair, pack bags
8:45- leave for work. Work from 9:30- 6pm
7pm – Home: unpack school bags hubby has cooked dinner and fed and bathed the kids
7:30 – Shower put kids to bed
8:-00pm – eat dinner, make lunches for the next day as I have to leave at 6am to be at work at 7pm.
10:00- bed time.
On my days off [fri, sat, sun, mon] we are soo much more relaxed.
We wake at 7, leisurely have breakfast, get girls ready for school or if it’s the weekend we laze around.
I feed the cat and change the litter, put a load of washing on, vacuum [ I am a clean freak so we vacuum almost everyday].
11am – Morning tea, play with kids,
1pm – lunch time, kids watch a movie on the weekend as a treat or they play quietly.
2pm we head off to the local park with some fresh fruit and I take a book to read.
3:30pm come home and organise dinner, potter in the garden, water the herbs, kids play in the sandpit at home.
5:00pm – eat dinner
5:45 pm – kids shower
6:00pm they get to watch tv for half an hour
6:30pm- youngest daughter goes to bed. I read her a story [or ten lol]
7:30pm – oldest daughter goes to bed.
8:00pm – Sit on lounge and read a book or watch tv.
Leonie,
I´m sitting here giggling…
that is what I wanted to ask you the last days !
I have this big feeling of connection to you…it sounds weird,but I somehow feel you are a soulesister of mine.
And when I read you bake raw cookies and crank up your dehydrator…I just have to smile because I love mine dearly
And routine – thats what I really thought over yesterday.
We (me,my darling boyfriend and our beautiful little 7month old girl…oh,and the two ferrets) are totaly out of line since our little bean was sick.Now she is well again and I we are moving back on track…
For us it´s really hard to stay on a consistent routine…we don´t have a very organized live .But I know she needs it,so I keep trying.On a normal day we get up around 8 am,feed in bed (around 10 minutes…she got really efficient ! ),go changing the diaper and dress her.Then I play with her,do some houshould stuff (I also find turning on the washing maschine very therapeutic…I just love this transformation from dirty clothes to fresh,wonderfull smelling ones…).About 10 am she is tired again,and I put her down (currently she goes to sleep in my arms and I transfer her to her baby hammock).Then I do some serious finger crossing….today it worked and she is still asleep – Yay ! So I can do some things I enjoy…like reading a book or your blog ! Normaly I go and wake my man around 10….he really is no early bird,but thats ok,he will make up for it later and watch the little one (he is currently at home )
About 13:00 she will get her lunch – first the milk,then some vegetable puree.We will play, do some more around the house and hope she will sleep again around 16:00…but sleep is not on her priority list,I fear.
Later we will pack her up in our moby wrap (we have a sling too but never got it to work properly….wonder what we are doing wrong) and get out of the house.
Later,at around 19:00 its dinner time and I feed her millet and fruit puree (I breastfeed her whenever she wants to,about every 21/2 hours).I try to get her to bed around 8pm.Then we eat dinner (sometimes earlier,sometimes later….) and I enjoy my evening (whenever I can…) and go to bed to late.
I know,I should go earlier,but then I end up with almost no me-time because on some days she sleeps so little over the day.
When I go to bed I take her from her hammock,feed her in beed and we sleep side by side.Normally she wakes me 1-2 times in the night to feed again (Leonie,it will get better !) and that is ok with me.
Leonie,I would really love to get into e-mail conntact with you !
We had so much to talk about
Bleesed be, soulesister,
Sandra
Mine changes depending on if I work that day or not.
Work day
4:00 – Feed the baby
6:30 – Will leaves for the day if he spent the night and feed the baby
Between 7:30 and 8 – Wake up and take a shower while the baby lays in my bed and continues sleeping.
8:30 – Get dressed, put on make up, ect
9:00 – Pack lunch and eat breakfast.
9:15 – Wake the baby up and get him dressed and pack the diaper bag
9:20 – feed the baby
9:45 – head to work with the baby(he comes with me)
10 – 3 Work
3:15 – Get home, feed the baby
From then on any various ammount of atcivites can happen. This week it was been Vacation Bible School at my mom’s church.
9:00 – Feed the baby
9:30 – Bath time
9:45 – Baby massage and snuggles until he falls asleep
10:30 – 12 – Cleaning and other house hold stuff
12 – Feed the baby and bed time.
If I don’t work, we usually sleep until 9:30 or 10 and then we run errands or do other fun stuff.
Since I’m a single mom who has shared custody, I have 2 different patterns — with kids and without (SAD!!!!)
With kids:
wake up at 6am and shower and dress
6:30am wake kids
6:45am convince son to feed howling felines before they trip someone
7am get kids fed
7:30am take kids to wherever they will be during the day (in summers it is babysitter or family or daycamp, fall and winter they go to school full time)
8am-5pm work outside the home
5pm-5:30pm drive back to city and pick up kids
5:30-6pm make supper for us
6pm-8pm Goddess of the Haven activities that need to be done (wash dishes, clean kitchen, sweep floors, wash clothes, fold clothes, put clothes away, clean bathroom, make lunches for next day, tidy up)
8pm round children up from outside where they are playing with their friends
8-9pm bedtime routine — get kids showered, dressed in jammies, teeth and hair brushed, make sure they use the toilet, read together (they are perfecting their reading skills so they read to ME and that takes longer), lights out, 2 songs each, kisses… mommy collapses in a heap)…
9pm-9:30pm watch tv, talk to friends online, catch up on email ,make lists for coming day, pay bills, declutter
9:30-11pm “me” time… do needlework, journal, art journal, take pictures
11pm – bedtime routine for mommy — quick shower (to cool down or warm up), jammies, wash face, brush hair and teeth, moisturize, potty (laugh)
11-whenever I fall asleep – Listen to meditations on iPod
There is usually so much to do and remember that I find myself being kept awake wondering if I missed something or if I will make it through the next little while.
Your life with your husband and baby sounds so pleasant, I hope that someday I get to have someone who is willing to cuddle and parent and share my life with me…
A perfect Saturday: woke up and it was overcast and cool, a welcome break from the east coast heatwave we’ve been experiencing, so my hubby and I started the day in the hot tub on our back deck.
Then our Saturday routine of riding our bikes to the local farmer’s market for farm fresh eggs, whatever is in season; still plenty of luscious ripe sweet tomatoes. I have little ones in my garden so I bought three big ones for sandwiches. Bought some baby okra, corn, homemade pickles and chow chow, a colorful array of zinnias and then off to the local market/cafe for breakfast of chilequiles (basically scrambled eggs cooked with tortilla chips and salsa).
Spent the afternoon making jewelry with a friend and our daughters and their friends. Such fun to see all the creative goddesses at play. I finally made a necklace that I bought the beads for exactly two years before when we had been in our new home of Carrboro, North Carolina for two days.
Went home and made dinner for family: barbeque tempeh, corn on the cob, steamed baby okra and new potatoes. Then off to a movie with same friends from earlier in the day. My husband’s gig got canceled due to rain so he was able to join us (Yay!). The movie we wanted to see was sold out so we went to the old, renovated movie theatre in town that was showing Hitchcock’s Rear Window and enjoyed watching Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart in one of my favorite movies on the big screen.
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Much love and good wishes to you, Leonie, in your new home. I felt that Saturday was a day to celebrate the 2 year anniversary of moving to my new home and a new life that was the best move we ever made! It sounds like it will be the same for you! Much love, Stephanie