Let’s Look

Hey, hey! It’s Wednesday!

Today, I’m linking up with Shay and Erika for Let’s Look.

So far this year, we’ve looked at…

• Scheduling/organizing a busy family in January
• What’s in your medicine cabinet in February
• Favorite Amazon finds in March
• I skipped April because we had pet peeves as a topic for May’s Not Just a Mom post, so I saved those ideas for that post.
• Around May’s link up, I shared a “Day in the Life” post, so that ended up including most of my morning routine.
• Best travel tips in June.
• No post for me in July.
• In August, I discussed worst habits in a blog challenge post.

This month, we are looking at…our evening routine.

I captured a pretty “routine” evening on Monday. Here’s what it looked like:

Most afternoons, I pick up the kids up from school and we head home.

I planned soup for dinner, so I put that in the slow cooker as soon as we got home. I made one of our favorites…Sausage and Cheese Tortellini Soup.

Then, I checked in on the kids as they were working on homework. Hadley was working on Algebra…

…which reminded me of this meme that I saw recently…haha

So far, the kids are in a pretty good groove with juggling activities and homework. Hadley has had more homework this year than Hayden has. I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned it…but they are in the SAME Language Arts class…and they are currently seated in alphabetical order….which is unfortunate for Hadley…haha

In 6th grade, they didn’t have any classes together, and last year they had one semester of PE together. This is the first core class they’ve had together. Oh to be a fly on that wall…

Right now, with most of their activities being in the evening, they usually have a couple of hours after school to relax, have a snack and do homework before heading to cross country or volleyball practice.

Hadley usually chooses to jump right into the homework, whereas, Hayden usually watches a show and has a snack before doing his work. This year, I’ve really tried to let them manage their time…until they show me I need to manage it for them…So far, so good.

Anyway, I change out of my school clothes as soon as I can.

Monday’s outfit was actually pretty comfy…

…but it was time to change into my workout clothes.

I checked in again on the kids, filled up my water bottle and headed to the basement to get a workout in.

I’d hoped to get in some kind of morning workout groove, but it hasn’t happened. I usually get up on Friday mornings, but otherwise, I’ve had at least an hour after school to get a workout in before taking the kids wherever they need to be.

Once the school volleyball season starts, I will probably have to go straight from school to games, so I may have to incorporate more morning workouts then.

Anyway, I’m almost finished with the Sure Thing program, and I’ve been loving it.

Then, I spent a few minutes working on Tuesday’s blog post. I’ve had a hard time getting in a writing groove since school started. While I’ve been posting regularly, I’ve just had to find pockets of time to write in order to make that happen.

So, I had about fifteen minutes between my workout and taking Hadley to volleyball, so I worked on the post then.

I dropped Hadley off and ran a couple of errands. I don’t really love evening errands, but her volleyball nights are the same time that Travis is with Hayden at cross country practice. Since Hadley’s volleyball is only for an hour, I usually run an errand or two nearby.

On Monday, I took a couple of books back to the library, and stopped by Walgreens before…

…heading back to watch the last twenty minutes of her practice.

Once we got home, we all sat down for dinner together. We kept it simple with just the soup, but it was a good meal…even though we didn’t eat until late.

After dinner, Travis and I cleaned up the kitchen while the kids finished up their homework.

Then, it was shower and skincare routine time.

After my shower, I watched tv until about 10:00…and I enjoyed some ice cream. I felt like I really deserved the ice cream 😉

We all headed to bed around 10:00. Travis was asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow….even though he thought he was going to finish watching the football game. haha

I read every night before bed…sometimes it’s just for a few minutes, but Monday night I actually read for about thirty minutes.

That’s a look at a pretty typical evening routine for me.

Dinner prep, workout, blogging, chaffeuring kids around, dinner, shower, read, good night!

Right now, I feel like the afternoons/evenings fly by!