Our very-busy, do-everything, erandy kind of day!

I think I'm still recovering from yesterday!

It was Mike's day off...I tend to jam as much in there as I can when I have his help. Don't get too tired reading this, because believe me, it was an exhausting (but productive) day!

7:00am Wake up to a very energetic Emmie...who in her excitement to see us in the morning wakes Chase who is all smiles (thank GOD the colic is leaving and there is a cute baby that remains...)
7:30am We all manage to roll out of bed, get breakfast, fight over who gets to go potty first, and brush our teeth.
7:45am Mike is rounding up all of the trash in the house and Emmie and I are making silly faces at Chase so he will smile.
8:00am Mike is off to the dump with a packed Prius.
8:30am Chase is ready for a nap, but I don't want to let him sleep because we have to go see the pediatrician.
8:35am I get to take a shower while Mike entertains the kids and then vice versa.
8:45am I get everyone dressed...except for Mike, he can dress himself :o)
9:00am We read all of Emmie's library books, Moosetache, Silly Sally, Billy's Bucket, Noisy Nora, The Three Dots, and More More More.
9:15am We pile into the car.
9:30am Pediatrician appointment: Chase is doing great, he is now 12lbs!! Make small talk with doc (who we love!!) for a while and get excited that she has a baby on the way who I can photograph.
10:00am Head to Fitchburg to social security office to get Chase a card...we checked off the box to receive one automatically and it never came...
10:30am Drive around the block about five times looking for parking, decide to risk it and park in the bank parking lot.
10:35am YES, there is no line, get seen right away...we are told he has been issued a card and they will not give us a new one without identifying info...all we have is a birth certificate--doh! They can't tell me where they mailed the original to. They expect Chase to have some kind of recent paper that has his full name on it...I remind them that he is 4 months old and doesn't recieve mail very often nor does he think to take it with him to the SS office...grrr.
11:00am Visit Grandma (Mike's mom) at her work--assistant registrar of deeds--so she can show off her grand babies.
11:30am Change a diaper in the car, feed baby, hit the road and pray we will be home for the Roche Brothers grocery delivery which is scheduled for sometime between 12:00pm and 2:00pm.
12:03pm Arrive home.
12:15pm Groceries arrive...unload them and pack the fridge (Emmie got a good bonk in this process right near her eye so I spent most of the time consoling her.)
12:30pm I work on getting Emmie to nap and then Chase while Mike makes us some hot dogs.
1:00pm Both babies are sleeping!
1:15pm Eat hotdogs.
1:45pm Mike heads to Home Depot to pick up a light fixture, some caulking, a dehumidifier, and wood putty. I check email and respond to everything in my inbox and attempt to clean the house before Razvan, our financial planner, shows up at 3pm.
2:50pm Mike gets home and I have actually had time to look through a couple catalogs.
3:00pm Razvan comes to our house and we talk about $...IRA's, retirement, wills, etc...he was a groom that we worked with last June and it is fun to sit down and chat about life and the market with him.
3:30pm Chase is up, joins us in the meeting.
4:00pm Emmie is up and joins the meeting.
4:30pm Razvan leaves and we try to figure out dinner plans...realize that cheese that was delivered that day is moldy--yuck--call and they refund and apologize.
4:45pm Mike goes out to get more cheese and I start cooking meat for Tacos.
5:15pm We all sit down and eat...
5:35pm Top Chase off with milk before I leave for CIDA (Center for Digital Imaging Arts) in Waltham and kiss Emmie goodbye...
5:45pm Put on makeup in the car and program the GPS...make a few phone calls while driving...tsk tsk...and am astonished that no one is crying the back seat (remember that I am alone)!
6:15pm Arrive at CIDA and meet Lara from Studio Nouveau who also teaches workshops over at the school. Hang out and have a few laughs with James and Kate from The Feds Studio. I also had the pleasure of talking with a lot of the students there about being a photographer in the "real" world and some other fun professionals like Mike and Beth Bell from Embee Studio.
8:00pm Realize I should proabably find my way back to the car and back to Acton.
8:30pm Come home to a VERY excited Emmie who is happy to see me.
8:45pm Read the library books again...mental note: we should get a couple more books out at a time so we're not constantly reading the same 6.
9:00pm Take a very tired Emmie to her bed and rock her to sleep, kiss her head, and tuck her in...wonder what happened to my little baby who went to bed at 7pm every night.
9:05pm Come out and finally get to give Mike a hug and tell him about the CIDA event.
9:15pm Snuggle up on the big red couch and watch the new Strobist DVD's that came in the mail earlier that day...thoroughly enjoy being a geek watching a movie about lights and flash.
11:30pm Realize it is late and should head to bed because Chase is going to be waking up soon and it is always good to get a little sleep before that happens...

P.S. It took me all day to write this!!