6am – everybody up!!!
Yes even on holidays, kids wake up early – it doesn’t matter what day it is to them, weekday, weekend, public holiday, winter, summer, any day, everyday wake up same time, even if you are dying with pain they still wake up early – 6am.
6.30 – OMG They are starving – they have to have breakfast NOW or you never hear the end of it and you feel like you are torturing your children.
7am – get out of bed – mayday we are running late for swimming lessons – get Child1 ready, get Child2 ready – this takes longer than you think, have quick shower, get ready yourself and get everyone in the car.
8am – swimming lessons – Child1 in class so you have to get in the pool with Child2 so as to avoid any drownings.
8.30am – run to the car with towels wrapped around us since we hate public toilets and bathrooms due to Mum’s unreasonable and irrational hate for public bathrooms.
9am – hot showers for all – everybody snack time … warm milk and a banana
9.30am – back in the car – we have a playdate!!!
10am – activity started – activity lasts 2 hours – STOP it to Child2 – Good girl Child1, Good work Child2, Child1 stop running around please and focus on your activity.
12pm – time to go grab some lunch
12.15 – arrive at HJs and order lunch while all kids play on the playground … walk through HJS and feel the floor sticky and dirty ew ew ew
1pm – lunch finished – we head back home
1.30pm – HOME – everybody back to showers due to HJs sticky floors.
2pm – everyone on the couch – let’s watch a family movie – Beethoven! Yay! Organic unsalted and butter free popcorn and cup of ribena.
3.30pm – snack time – some fruit of some sort while we do a craft – playdough
4.30pm – mum starts getting dinner ready so kiddies ABC2 while preparation occurs
5.30pm – dinner!!!!! Yay!!!
6pm – Daddy’s home – play with our best friend in the whole world – ignore mother as much as possible
7pm – read book and bedtime for kiddies – dinner for grown ups and an hour later bedtime for mother
GOODNIGHT WORLD

I used to be addicted to coffee – I would have 4-5 cups a day not necessarily to get me through the day. I simply enjoyed the taste! I had easy access to a kitchen and I could have as many as I liked so why not? This all changed when I was planning to get pregnant of course. I stopped about 3 months before falling pregnant and I stayed off caffeine until after I finished breastfeeding our first child. I will never forget going to a coffee shop in Subiaco and ordering a skinny decaf half shot coffee and the Barrista looking at me strangely said,: No really! What’s the point?” At the time I thought she was quite rude but now I think back and laugh at it.
I went back to coffee eventually and at that time I felt I desperately needed the caffeine to get through the days where there had been sleepless nights. Then it was time to plan for our second child so again I came off the caffeine until after I finished breastfeeding said child. I was looking through some of our photos the other day and I still can’t get my head around how I survived those days. One of the photos was me breastfeeding my newborn and Miss3 napping on my lap. If someone were to tell me I did that, I would say: No way! That’s impossible … but there is photographic evidence and I still look at it in complete disbelief. There must be a special thing in your brain that clicks and helps you get through those tough situations.

Anyway back to the coffee – When my little man was about a year old I started drinking coffee again – I love my percolated coffee so that’s all I drank for quite some time and then I discovered a nespresso machine and nespresso pods thanks to Kate, Jo and Teresa on twitter – well let’s just say that my coffee experience was never going to be the same again. I love my nespresso pods and they were the highlight of a recent trip when I walked into the hotel room and noticed that I could have unlimited nespresso pods during my entire stay. HURRAH!