A Day In My Life-Utterly Insane!!

So, after a bit of thought I decided to post a mini-description of a day in my life. I had a few ladies emial me privatly requesting to know some of these so here they are. I actually kept track all last week and most are right on and some averaged for the day. Please keep in mind the hubby is here from orning till 2 everyday as well.

- I have the following on a daily basis at one point or another- girl-9 months, boy-23months, girl, 2.5, girl-3.5, girl-4, girl-5, girl-5, girl-6, girl-6 boy-5, boy-4, boy-9, and on special days-girl-5, boy-3.5.

-I am normally awake by 5:30 to a few children- my own...they are early risers...always have been. then at about 6:30 I have children to begin to arrive.....

- by mid-afternoon I have anywhere between 9-12 children in my care.

- I create 7-12 breakfasts

- I create 12 snacks

- I create 12 lunches

- I create 12 more snacks

- I created 8 dinners

- I feed one large dog twice a day

- I feed 2 gerbils

- I sweep and mop my floors 2-3 times a day

- I vaccume an almost 2000sq ft house 4 times a day

- I do the dishes between 5-8 times a day by hand

- I put 8 children to bed

- I bathe 8 children

- I plan and teach preschool-kindrgarten activities throughout 8 hrs of the day to children in my care.

- I try to remember to shower each day

- I try to sleep a full night but often do not as the hubby gets home at 2 am to talk

- I do 6-8 loads of laundry a day - sometimes it only gets folded and delivered to the room but its clean.

- I clean up toys a countless number of times each day

- I scrapbook when I get a chance

- I nap when the time allows- which is NEVER

- I work 7 days a week! Normally from 6 am to 1 am with other peoples children!

- I read my bible when I get the chance not as often as I wished to

- I wipe mor faces then I can even count

- Clean markers and crayons off faces, walls and carpet a few times a day

- Go through at least 12 bandaids a day

- Clean spilt milk and other bodily fluids from sofas, chairs and sooo much more at least 5 times a day.

- I serve on average 70 drinks a day between bottles, milk in sippy cups and water. ( we dont do juice or sodas)

- Walk twice a day to the school 3 blocks away with between 3-8 kids to pick up children.

- check emails and run an on-line scrapbooking group and assorted on-line blogs and preschool groups as often as I can.

- Daily update my preschool web-site for parents to look over what they did, have done and how they behaved.

-Updated at least 6 sets of parents as to how their child has done for the day.

-Work with many children daily...hourly...by the minute on potty training...lol

- Try to have a couple over once a week in the evening or at least one friend- but it may take us 4 hrs to watch a 1.5 hr movie...lol

- 2 times a day feel a young man through a feeding tube in his belly

- 4 times a day give two children breething treatments as need.

- 2 times a week bake fresh goodies!

-OWWWW and soo proud of this one- last week- moved with 9- 12 children in care- only across the street but I did it in 2 days with the help of the hubby and one of his friends we managed to have the old ouse cleaned and ready for the next and the new house unpacked and ready to live in with-in 3 days!

Ok, so I'm sure I left a few things out but I got many emails from parents of 4 or less children wondering what my day looked like and how in the heck I got through it.....and let me tell you ladies its not for the money...lol...cause they moneys not that great! But, there's a snippit from my day to day life...enjoy.....

Pictured at top is my darling daughter who is now 3.5!

Something for the moms of preschoolers

So, thought I would post something that may be used by many of you sahm with preschoolers...or anyone who enjoys doing fun learning activities with their kids.

I run a preschool with 12 chilredn and all of the below information has proven very beneficial to me and its all FREE and PRINATBLE!

Here's a great link to create your own tracing worksheets. These are great sites cause you can let them pratice writing anything you like...like their name, number or fun words!

http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/print-k/make-pk-dots.htm

http://www.writingwizard.longcountdown.com/multiword_handwriting_worksheet_maker.html

- Ok here's a great duck tracing worksheet plus more

http://www.learning%20treasures.%20com/duck_%20math.htm
- Great fisher price site for coloring sheets for their favorite characters:

http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=30&e=coloring

-Great site for older kids- Its for finding and connecting penpals from all around the world

www.kidsmc.com/penpal

--If anyone is interested I also have a great cookbook thats called cooking through the abc's and it has a recipe to do that simple and fun for kids for each letter of the alphabet. Just let me know your email and I can email it to you.

Below are a large number of great sites for finding activities and FREE printables for your preschool to school age child.

http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/preschool_activities.htm

http://www.shirleys-preschool-activities.com/

http://www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/ps-themes.html

http://www.first-school.ws/themes.html

http://www.edhelper.com/?gclid=CMTzvMXG3ZICFQEoPQod3FCGkg

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/toddler/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/books/alphabetical/w.shtml

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/categories/preschool.shtml

http://www.creativekidscrafts.com/preschoolactivities.html

http://funsocialstudies.learninghaven.com/edu/preschool_activities.html

http://familyfun.go.com/parenting/child/feature/toddlers-main-ms/toddlers-main-ms.html

I have so much more to share in the future if I get some good feedback and a need for other great worksheets and sites and activities...and the best part is everything I offer or show you to is FREE!!! Which I know we can all use great free things to help our children learn and have fun.

Remember I also have some items that are hard to attach on here...but if you shoot me an email and let me know a theme or something you are looking for then I am more than happy to help out. I have alittle over 300 themes....so I have alot and have access to lots of ladies who are always willing to help out on something I may be looking for.

Lacey

The Contents Of My Pockets

Have you ever thought about what you put in your pockets?

I wear jeans on an average day....and a shirt of some kind....lol....but thought I wouls share this small tid bit. Today early evening I cleaned out my pockets.....5 total...and here's what i found lied within after a nearly full day at home:

-42 cents in spare change found around the house or brought to me from a child
- 1 cell phone

- 1 milk jug lid

- 1 miniture long neck dino

- 2 mismatch buttons
- 1 small green and yellow blend hard ball of playdough
- 1 washable marker
- 2 whole crayons and 4 small broken pieces
- 3 pony tails
- 1 mini pair of nail clippers
- 2 matchbox cars
- 5 lint balls...lol
- 1 piece of candy
- 2 empty cany bar wrappers
- 1 broken show string
- 2 Wii dollars (like an allowance to my son)
- 3 pieces of ribbon
- 7 pieces of paper-mostly stray and trasj pieces
- 1 receipt
- 1 used and filled with snot tissue
- 1 cough drop
- 1 small piece of dried glue stick
- 2 misc. puzzle pieces
- 1 raw doodle--not sure why...lol..we didnt have noodles today!

I was amazed as I pulled these out and took inventory of the contents!! Cant believe my pockets held that much and curious if i died today and someone cleaned out my pockets...what they would think....just thought this was kinda comical.

Me and My Life at First Glance

Using this post to allow everyone to gain a glance into my life. I not only stay at home with my three children but I also run a preschool for 12 children out of my home. Sounds nuts right...and well it is. I am awake from 6 am when the first child arrives to about 1 am when the last child leaves. I choose to do preschool because I love the fact that parents can look to me to help steer their children in the right direction before entering school and while in their first year of school. I rmember tryin to find good care for my son when I was a single parent and it was a terror....so I do what I wished I could of found back then...and hopefully make a few parents life easier and with less stresses. But, with doing this.....I now also have children everyday of the week!!! I have two days where all of my children are gone by 6:30 and the rest of the days I have children till one am...it's always busy here....

My days are spent like most other sahm's I suspect anyways, I just have it like tripped in work load.....more about that in a later post....lol Because that will take a whole post....hahaha

I have been engaged to a great guy for about a year. I was married for about 6 years when we divorced. His name is Matt......we were high school sweet hearts...kinda...lol. Then when I got a divorce I moved back to Kansas. We met up and got back together and the rest is kinda history.

I have 4 degrees, that I used to use but am no longer able to have children....so I have decided to do as much as I can to allow myself the benfit of stayin home with my children. I have a son, Taylor who will be 9 on Thanksgiving day this year, a daughter, Desiree (we all call her Desi) who just turned 3 this past fourth of July and a son, Landyn that will be 2 on Halloween this year. Yes, I have all holiday babies.....dont ask me how...cause it sure as heck wasnt planned!!! Birthday are a terror....as you can imagine with all holiday babies....but it kinda runs in the family......my father is st. patty's day and my mom was on Halloween and my sister is the 3rd of July....just odd.

I am a Christian that is always struggling to do better in my faith....I find myself slipping often with not as much time as I would like to myself to devote to tryin to do better...but I try my best and hope to work harder at this over the next few months. It is afterall what keeps me sane when all else is lost!!

I have one dog---my baby KUJO- shes about 8 or 9 and black lab mix and two crazy gerbils thats temperments can never be predicted!

I live in a small town about 30 minutes north of Topeka and am getting ready to move...within about 3 weeks....luckily its only across the street...so not too far...but its about double the space...which I am currently quite desperate for!!!

I am addicted...and I mean severely addicted to scrapbooking....tradtional paper and elements scrapbooking....really dont like digital....I probably have around at last count about 30,000 sheets of 12 x 12 paper...sometime soon I will add some photos of my area and supplies!!! I just adore it. I love being able to express myself and its a bit of an outlet for me as well. I dont have a ton of money to spend on supplies all the time...but have a group I created on yahoo called PifsRUs, and this group has some very great ladies I have become quite fond of....we trade supplies instead of buying......so its a lot of work to run the gorup but pays off wonderfully when I get new supplies without having to pay for them other than to give up items I no longer had a need for. I also love creating altered items...such as altered cigar boxes, paint cans, cards, mini paper bag albums...I just love to try new things and have fun with my papers and ribbons and goodies!!!

Ok so theres a glance...well maybe a bit more than a glance....will get back to this a bit later.

The First of What will be Many

So, tonight in a fit of boredom and tryin to avoid the overflowing dishes and floors to be cleaned and launfry to be folded I began to look through misc. blogs. Look and reading...intrigued with everyone...I already have a few favorites!!! Not sure how to remember or link to them all the time...but I'm sure I will be able to find them again! I love to write and keep an avid journal and can't wait to share with everyone who cares to read!!! So, this is more of a test...plan on posting next about myself and my famiy and then getting knee deep in this...I think i have found my new love!!!