Yesterday began with Betsy crawled in bed with me at 5:30 am. I silenced my alarm and slept-in until 6:20 to enjoy snuggling with her. Ella slept late so I showered and got dressed, got Betsy dressed (she wore new new purple monster looking croc shoes), got Ella dressed, packed Ella's bottles, changed her diaper and clothes, and got all the girls out the door (Madison, Betsy, Ella and myself).
Our first stop was Memaw and Pawpaw's house, as they are keeping Ella while Ben is fishing. I unloaded Madison and Ella, and we headed to church to drop Betsy off at daycare. It was chick-fil-a day at school which was a good thing as I was running a little late.
I dropped Betsy off at 7:20 and headed to work. I had a morning meeting, made it back to my office to check voicemail and email, prepared some documents to fax to other colleges, then decided to re-organize our recently emptied office supply room.
At lunch I headed to Wal-mart to pick up some pull-ups to leave at school for Betsy, as well as a convertible car seat for Ella to use in my in-laws car and a case of diet coke to leave in my office. I stopped by Wendy's and picked up an Apple Pecan Chicken Salad since I also didn't have lunch due to running late (this is unusual, I bring my lunch 95% of the time).
I got back to the office and ate my salad while I had a meeting with a coworker. Then I jumped back into re-arranging our offices and running up and down the stairs to meet with another department.
The end of the work day quickly ended and I grabbed my stuff to head over and pick up all three of my girls from my in-laws house. This was the most quiet part of my day, listening to K-Love the christian station for 15 minutes in the car alone!
MIL and FIL pick up Betsy and nephew Will from daycare most days and spend a couple hours playing with them. This is SO convenient so I pick up both girls from one place. I retrieved Betsy and Ella but left Madison with J and J while I took the girls out to eat (by myself! YES! I am brave!) at IHOP. Betsy had a 'pancake with a face' and I had bacon and eggs (yay low carbs!). Ella was a trooper and sat quietly in her seat while I also taught Betsy how to set the table. She sang some songs while we waited for our food, and also identified all the vegetables on the pictures hanging behind my head (side note, cutest pronunciation is Betsy saying 'onions').
We loaded back up and headed to J and J's house to retrieve Madison. We drove the back way to our house and saw donkeys, goats, horses and cows on the drive from my in-laws house to my house. Betsy loves the cows best, and Ella loves to hear Betsy moo at the cows.
We arrived home and I opened Betsy's door and let her out so she could take Madison inside through the garage (she is very independent, if I try to help she says "I get down. I step out. I close Betsy's door!".
I set Ella's seat in the yard while I checked the mail and cleaned out my car. We all got inside, I turned down the AC, (ugh it's 100+ degrees at 7 pm). Both girls took a bath. Ella drank a bottle and snuggled with me. Betsy finished her milk. Ella fell asleep at 8 and I moved her to her bed. Betsy got into her PJs and snuggled with me while I did laundry and watched a movie. We heard from Ben, Betsy said "Hi Daddy!" a couple of times, but he had to be quick on the phone as I don't think they have electricity where they are staying so they have to conserve the phone battery.
Betsy was very tired (I let her stay up late until 9:30) and climbed in to her big girl bed for lights out. I didn't hear a peep from either one the rest of the night.
After the girls were asleep I unloaded clean dishes and reloaded the dirty dishes, made bottles for today, folded one load of clothes and ran another through the washer and dryer. I fell asleep at 10. The day was very busy, and pretty typical except Ben wasn't around the help!
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