A week in the life day 3. April 20,2017

I got up super early and made the kids waffles and bacon for breakfast. I try and do this every Wednesday because they have late start. Having kids of all ages I know I am going to miss this when they go to college. The thing is I love getting my kid fix and they love eating so it works out. I made lunches my son gets a double lunch because he is starving all the time. 

something that is not my thing but I am working on is being early to school. My kids used to always be late but for the last two years I have made it a point to be early. Today even though I was early getting life ready when I looked at the clock I said ..Oh poop we are gonna be late !!!!! I really try not to stress them out when we are running late. I make it a point to be calm and just hurry them. I have found a method that works for us.

It was raining here in San Diego and you know about people driving in the rain here. We got lucky and made it school on time and I did not speed. I never ever speed. I am that mom.

My feelings on running. I run almost everyday. I run because it has become what I do. I am at a place where I don't have to ask my body to run. My body and mind ask me. It is a yearning I have grown to love and listen too. I have been running for a long time so it takes me longer to find my sweet spot . This just means I need a minimum of 2 hours. I find however I can. I split it up of like today I just ran 12 miles. When I walked outside to see it had been raining it reminded me I have a race next Saturday. A really hard race called Lost Boys. I love the challenge and having a goal that pushes me to work hard at something that is for me. 

I do what I can with the time I have between dropping of Jack and picking him up. Planks will kick your butt you just have to hold it. I do wish I could do more but I will take what I get and be grateful for it.

I feel like telling the girl in the picture. You have come a long way G . Just keep working as hard as you have and don't stop. I am preparing my water and taking my supplements or vitamins. 

I love taking Jack to the park the problem is getting there. Do other moms feel this way? Once we are there its great but I always put chores before park time. Today we made it to the park and he wanted me to push him in the swim forever and ever. 

Then in was Lets run time. I love how he mimics me after I am done running. I love this picture. 

Paola has been picking up my teenagers because she has been getting out of work around the same time and her work is so close to there school. The kids think its cool there sister picks them up and less driving for me. Oh yeah and Paola or Miss P always has something I made to eat when she gets here. I don't mind. We have much better relationship now that she is older and values me more.

Then let the Taxi cab mom driving begin. Bella started guitar lessons today. We drove to her new class and met her new teacher and Jack was with us. He fell asleep on the way to the store to I just drove him home and pit him in bed. He is a much happier 3 year old when he naps. His big brother was home and he literally sits outside Jacks door when he watches him. He is so protective.

Then while Bella was in class I went to two grocery store to get some food and I got Bella and me earrings. I got Lapis and she got Jade. Bella is an artist. She is super smart but her spirit is one of an artist and I try and support that. The jade earnings made her feel special.

Dinner was chicken and noodles but because my husband is not home we just eat at the island for some reason. When he comes home we eat at the table. Bella is a great mommy number 2. She played with Jack while I cleaned up and turned off the lights etc. 

I am almost 45 so my night routine is real. Wash and a mark every other day. Then some neck cream and some eye cream and some face cream. I am so grateful in the morning when I take care of myself. I spend so much time outside running that I need all the help I can get. Christopher and Isabella finish there homework and my 10pm Jack and I are sleeping.

I feel so much gratitude for our house. I love that we have safe place to call home. That each child has there own room and they can decorate it however they want. I love that this is our safe place. 
If you get this far and read my blog and your also doing a week in life would you mind leaving me your blog in the comments I would love to read it. Thanks G

A Week in the life day 2

Me at 6:30 am getting Jack's and my smoothie ready. ( Jacks tummy does better when he has lots of veggies ) Bella came down at 6:50 grabbed an everything muffin I made. The way at least I know she is getting something healthy in her. Then we race to school and by 7:30 there in school and I am on my way home. I really enjoy picking them up more. I don't believe we are morning people.

San Diego weather is sunny and 73 today. The reason I took a picture of the nice weather was because in 2 weeks I will be running a 50 mile race really close to San Diego and it is always horrible weather for this race. I was thinking about that this morning. How quickly the weather can change.

Jack and I went to Home Depot to look at carpet and set up an apt to have them come to the house. I am so excited about getting new floors. Who ever thought I would be excited about floors !!Then I had a veggie taco and and back in the car we go. Jack took a nap.

The drive to where I have been wanting to go is about 45 minutes and if Jack falls sleep he will either wake up happy or very grumpy :(. Since he is only 3 I just go with it. When we arrived he was still asleep so I let him sleep for 15 more minutes to get a whole hour in and then I woke him up. He was super grumpy.I wanted to drive to this store that has the coolest walls. ARTLEXIA 

Jack cried the entire time we where in there. I kinda got a picture of the Frida wall. ( a am in love with her ) Maybe because she is Mexican like me or because she was an artist or maybe because she endured or because I admire how she didn't give a shit. Either way no picture for Gloria today.

This is the wall outside. I will have to go back and get a picture with me in it !! It is so fabulous. Even though Jack was not happy I am glad we drove down there. My oldest picked up the kids at school so I had time to get home. 

My older kids when to go see there dad for Easter so the Easter bunny left there baskets here. All my kids love getting baskets. We sat on the floor upstairs and I just listened to them laugh. 

Paola got make up stuff and chocolate. Isabella got drawing pencils and cute socks. Chris got a new journal and some cool pens and a bunch of candy. 

This kid. He hates having his picture taken and the only time he lets me is 2 times  a year. This one and the month of December for my December daily. Christopher is the child that always makes us laugh. He is so much like me. He had braces for 2 years and then when we took them off he grew 5 inches in one year !! His teeth went back :( so we are waiting until he is done growing before we put them back on. He is also a great big brother and he taught me to be way more patient when he was little. So from 6 to 9 the oldest go to there room to do there homework. I clean up and picked up dinner Panda Express. ( no photo) when my husband is home I make dinner every night and when he is gone we eat out. The kids love this idea and so do I.

This was our evening. Then at 9:30 I was bed and sleeping by 9:45.

 What I am grateful for Today is  my kids. I can't imagine life with out them. I love taking care of them and the thought of them leaving to college kills me but it will happen.  I know all this time I have with them is a gift and I try and take it all in. I often catch myself needing to bring myself back to center. My life mantra is G does it really, really matters ..Ok go with that. 

December is here !!

I love that it is this time of year again. One of the traditions I love the most is working on my December daily. I feel like this album is the whip cream of my holiday season. You know everyone loves the hot chocolate but the whip cream is always all mine. This year I am embracing two things my hand writing and getting my story down for each day. 

 December 1

December 1st was my husbands holiday party. I Love getting dressed up and a good date night is always a great thing around here. Since the picture of the two of us was so nice I decided to start with it. Jack got his first Christmas treat from pre-school earlier in the day he was so excited. I wrote about the rest of our day . Jack and I took my oldest out to lunch I wrote a message to her on the back of my half page.

Dec 2

I kept the 2nd easy. I went for a 10 mile run while Jack was in  pre-school and then we met my husband for Lunch at the 101 diner. I wrote a page about how much I love our family.I also got a great picture of my husband kissing my youngest.

Things I am loving is that my album is to get bigger. I also think that embracing the just taking it easy and getting down attitude makes it nicer specially when there is so much to do. 

Thanks for stopping by. G

Happy October

Happy October Peeps. Hi!! How exciting we all made it to October. I have big plans for this month. I made a little Pictober prompt for myself . There is so much going on when its close to the end of the year and I really want to make my Project Life come together so I need to help myself with some prompts . I also have done some other prompts and my journals for my blog and my own project Life does so much better. I will hash tag my pictures #pictober if you want to do the same ..that would be cool.. My Instagram name is creatingfreespirit if you want to fallow me. 

My number 1 is Me. That sounds funny. I mean my number 1 prompt is ME. Me is my family today. I really want to start every month with a picture of who ever is in the house. I have my 2 of my kids about 80 percent of the time. My oldest lives in her own apartment. Jack is with me all the time. So I want to do a family picture the first of every month that will be who ever is here that day. This month Poala my oldest had surgery. Her boy friend was here and that was who is in our first Family picture.  This feels like a great Idea. I am thinking we can take some fancy family pictures but for today this was my family and that is me. 

My feelings on A week in the Life

Here it is. I decided to take some pictures of my album. I am really glad I took the time to do this. I am happy to be in love with all things Ali Edwards. The lesson that I take away from this are: 

• Those moments that took place during the week will never happen again. 
• Even if we have coffee everyday it is really never the same. 
• Every day is different and we could say how boring or we could say it is a little magical. 
• Here we are capturing the magic. 
• Taking the time to let our grandchildren one day how we drink our coffee. 
• Here we are taking the time capture our feelings and giving our selves some much needed love. 

I love how this is a type of pampering. It can be work but, man, it's good work. I, like so many women, look at everyone'd books and some part of me wishes mine was better. I am a girl and that's what we do, compare. But here is another great lesson in accepting our effort and accepting our vision and knowing that mine is just fine. I like that it is simple but that I took the time thanks to Ali to writing down what I needed too. I wrote the simple stories of my life that make it mine. I wrote about how 3 days a week it is only Jack and I and we have scrambled eggs with grilled onions and tomatoes. I wrote about how much my 2 year old loves grilled veggies. I wrote about how the first day of school left me in tears because my children are growing up and I am just so proud. I wrote about my relationship with Mike and how blessed I feel to have someone who loves me and my children more than anything. All theses things are in this little book with pictures of each moment. My story is here and I am very grateful for that. All of this is special and means a lot more than I think we let ourselves believe. Thank You Ali because every time I take the time to do this I heal a little. I love a little bit more too but, more importantly, I am made aware of how blessed I really am.

A day in the life - Thursday

Ok so not the best picture but by this time I had woken up showered changed Jack fed him. Then made lunches and feed my big kids and I was tired. I really have to go to bed by 10pm.  Getting up by 6a.m.  at the latest can sometimes be hard. SOme mornings I would love to just go back to bed. But hey its Jacks Birthday !

So I opened the big box with the train table in it and he went crazy so I had to get out the trains.  He played and played.

My dad came over early.. Now I see why I have to go to bed early. There is so much going on way early in the morning around here. It took my dad hours to put the table together. I really need more pictures of my older kids but there still sleeping.

Birthday Boy ..

We sang happy  birthday 10 times and Jack kept saying has mas . I have not mentioned that jack is bilingual. I speak danish all day and when Mike gets home we speak English.

This is real life peeps. A plunger and a bunch of silly people laughing because we the word poop is involved …Thats a wrap for our Thursday.

A week in the Life - Wednesday

For me some mornings the whole getting up and getting ready are just so the same I did not take a picture. This was an early morning park kind of day. I drove south about 45 minutes to see my dad so we could go get this little guy his birthday present. 

We where at the park by 8am. We both got up early . 6am early so I decided to just get out of the house and go play.

This is the reality of a 2 year old. Its hard going to the store's with him even toy's r us is hard. He is happy in a out of control kind of way.  I adore my dad and he is not really a patient man but with Jack he is so patient. I really love watching my dad 65 trying to figure out what to do with Jack age 2. My dad bought him a really cool train table.

Oh the drive home. 1 hour and did Jack sleep   Nope. I was home by 2:30 just in time to pick up the kids from school.

Home Sweet Home.

When your a teenager and growing you sleep a-lot. My son sleep a-lot. He seems to be growing over night too.

The day came to an end. This is us. I am consistently grateful to him. I am grateful because I have a roof over my head I call my home thanks to him. I am grateful there are never any fights. Its a quite relationship and I love that. It's easy and after having many years of difficult relationship easy is great and I need easy. 

A week in the life - Tuesday

I was looking forward to  breakfast. The mornings all always quite since my teenagers sleep in late and with summer coming to an end I let them sleep. I don't have papaya often but today I did.  I love it for so many reasons . It reminds me of mexico Then you add the vanilla yogurt and perfection. Things like this make me happy.

We had to be at the kids school early on. Time to get lockers decorated and just figure things out. I felt sad most of the morning. One more year has passed and my kids are getting older. It feels so sad to me. I would love to have them home with me all the time. I am that mom. There great kids and I am so happy when they are near me. 

My little girl thats what I see. She is so sweet and crazy creative. I have a feeling this is going to be difficult year for her. New school new friends and change is not that easy for any of us. 

This is how I feel when I am with them. I feel in love. Everything that comes with that is good.

My dad visited today !!

My aunt taught me to make really good shredded beef . SHe is so sweet and a very healthy 73 year old.

THen with out notice it was time to put this guy down for bed and here I am with both my boys .. I am tired can you tell. Bed time does not come soon enough sometimes.