A day in my life

My day starts at roughly 1am. I climb into bed with my sausalito cookies a cold mug of whole organic milk and a book. I read at least one chapter each night. By 2am Olivia is awake and climbing into my bed, she is usually crying and almost always wakes up T. Once we get Olivia back to sleep and T resettled J wakes up, we offer her a sippy cup of water and rub her head until she goes back to sleep. By 4am A is awake and ready to be changed and fed. Shana is out of bed by 5 and on her way to work. At 6ish T wakes again and I give her a bottle change her and put her back to bed, I then fed and change A and roll into bed pull the covers up to my ears and settle in for what will now be my longest stretch of sleep per night...err morning? 640am-940(ish). At this time Olivia is telling me the sun is up, J is pushing the button on her care bear for the 15th time, and T is bouncing up and down in her crib. A is laughing and squealing. Since everyone seems to be in such a great mood I decide that we will get dressed before we go down to breakfast and after we eat I will take the kids somewhere(the mall has a nice indoor play structure) Its 10am by the time I get diapers changed and begin dressing the kids. By 1030 generally everyone has their clothes on and we are trying to find matching pairs of shoes. As I begin to do J's hair I look up to find T playing in the toilet...I remove her and hold her up trying to decide if I need to change her clothes or if she'll dry out in time for us to leave. I move out to the family room to finish doing the girls hair firmly closing the bathroom door behind me and realize that J has a poopy diaper. I change her and resettle down to finish her hair when A begin to cry, I look at the clock and realize it has been a good 4hrs since he's eaten. I sing to him across the house hoping he can hold out long enough for me to finish J's hair. I get her hair done and walk into my room to make a bottle for A. I get settled at my computer to check email while I fed A and notice J is not in the room behind me, I call out to her and she doesn't come. I know instantly this isn't a good sign. I walk into her room to find her in her walk in closet adding copious amounts of aquafor to her hair(note- aquafor is just like Vaseline). I turn around and walk out ignoring the familiar odor in the air of yet another dirty diaper. After A is drunk with milk I lay him down in his crib, retrieve T out of my toilet and decide this time she will need to be changed. after T is REdressed hair is done and shoes are on I find Olivia and do her hair, in two pony tails or braids at her request. I then change J's diaper and wash her hair in the sink, trying to remind myself to stay neutral and not to let on to her that what shes done has upset me, I wish I was always successful but the truth is I'm unusually not. By now its 1130 and T is screaming bloody murder because she is hungry and wants to eat, and I still have yet to shower. I open the baby gate and all the girls follow me downstairs I slice up banana's into bowls of cheerios and pour cups of OJ. I turn on cartoons in the other room and run upstairs to get a shower. When I exit the shower I am generally greeted by all three girls, they are informing me that they need new shirts because theirs are now "soaked" with milk from their cereal. As I turn around to grab a towel for my hair I notice T in the floor of my shower splashing around happily seemingly unaffected by the obviously dirty diaper she is wearing. I decide the damage is done make sure my razor is up out of reach and leave her there to play and I get dressed, do my hair and make-up. I then go into the nursery pick out another outfit for T(remember this is now outfit #3 and we haven't even left the house yet)I grab some clothes for A. I get both babies dressed and we all head downstairs at a quarter to 1. We've now been awake and "getting" ready to go for almost 3 hrs. As I help the kids into coats I am greeted with yet another poopy diaper and the realization that I haven't yet packed the diaper bag. I make up 3water bottles for each baby grab 3 diapers for each kid refill the wipes container and pack a handful of fruit snacks and we are finally out the door. As I back down my driveway I look up and see that it is now 1:15. Once I get all the kids unloaded and reloaded into the stroller we make our way into our mall, we stop at the food court for happy meals and prepare to smile as I hear the first of many "wow, you have your hands full" comments and the questions, I try to remind myself that when someone asks me a question it might be the 500th time that week that I had heard it, but it was only the first time this person has asked it. I will generally let the kids play for at least 2-3hrs before we head home to start dinner, or rather before we go home and decide who will be delivering dinner that night. I rarely cook anymore, and when I do its really called heating up. My house is a wreck, the kids are now great at helping clean up(well Olivia and J that is) and at one point everyday my entire house looks clean and organized, sadly it rarely holds its shape longer than 15 consecutive minutes. after dinner the kids play/clean up take baths and go to bed...usually by 8 but don't go to sleep until 10 because somehow despite all my best intentions my kids go to bed watching amovie. It keeps them in bed and affords me some quiet time, I know its wrong and bad and evil...but I do it anyway. Sometimes I even let them eat fruit snacks before bed after they have brushed their teeth... I read blogs from the time my kids go to bed until I do, I know I could be cleaning/organizing/laying out clothes doing laundry cleaning bathrooms and keeping the diaper bag stocked..but I don't. I read blog's or message boards or soak in a bath for hrs at a time talking on the phone to Raechelle. I read blogs from moms who have twice as many kids as me, who keep a clean orderly home and bake bread, sew clothes and home school. I don't know where they get these super powers, I'm desperately in need, if anyone knows....