Monday 14th April 2025
4.30am - Wake up to David’s alarm, listen to him get up and make his lunch, have a shower and get ready for work.
5am - David leaves for work and he calls me on his way and we go through the plans for our days, the weather, sports scores, the kids days and sometimes dinner plans.
6am - David and I spend a half our playing Scrabble or SongPop before he goes in at 6.30am.
6.30am - Jie is up and already wanting to bargain off the dishes if I cook him breakfast. The dishes consist of about three plates, a smoothie maker, a bowl and a few cutlery.. but seeing as he was so eager for Mum to cook for him - he is 20yo by the way! - I ended up giving in and cooked him Eggs and Avo on Toast!
7am-8am - Jie eats his breakfast as we watch the rest of the movie we started last night.. Tom Hanks in A Man Named Otto. The movie reminded us of my Dad as we laughed and paused different parts of things he did that Pop would do too. Jie like to rate movies and so gave it an 8 once it was finished. I gave it a 9.
8am-9.30am - Jie has a shower and I get stuck into my 1000 piece puzzle 🧩 Jie honors his part of the deal made earlier and does the dishes. He brings out his basket from his room and doubles his task with more plates, mugs and cutlery. I put on Pixar Cars as background entertainment and we both quote and laugh as we do our own things.
9.30am - Jie decides he wants to annoy me as I sit in peace doing my puzzle.. and so he does.. and for a good half our too!
10am - Nevaeh gets up, Jie is finally in his room playing his Xbox and I’m packing up my puzzle for another day. Nevaeh washes her basket of dishes and I pull out chops, chicken burgers and meatballs for the next three nights dinners.
10.30am - A loads of towels get washed, the dog and cat get fed and I go and scroll fb, twitter and insta for a bit.
11am - I’m playing Pokemon go while talking to David on the phone as he drives one of the fleets biggest trucks which he know I love. I do another load of towels, hang them and order the kids and I pizza 🍕
12pm - It’s very rare for me to spend one on one time with my kids at these ages, Jie and I work, Nevaeh and Jie go to two different school, Jie does a course and goes to the gym.. I barely see us all finding the time to hang out. So I thought I’d get us Pizza to share seeing as we were all home together.
12.45pm - Pizza comes and Nevaeh and I eat on my bed watching a crime investigation show. Jie eats in his room and watches an episode of Supernatural which he is really into at the moment.
1.30ish - Jie and I have an afternoon sleep. (I know right? The life!!) ☺️
3pm - I get up and a package comes. It motivates me to then clean my room.
3.15-5pm - I’m cleaning, sorting, stopping to look at photos, filling a massive donation box, going through medication dates and finding all those missing pairs of socks under our bed..
5pm - David calls me to say he is leaving work at 6.10pm and wants to take me out for a dinner date. I’m still up to my neck in sorting Mum and Dads stuff so I tell him I’ll finish up and then have a shower and call him back. (Jie is still asleep by the way!)
7pm - David and I cosy up at Deganis at Woodgrove and each order what we “want” instead of usually only what we can “afford”. I also get a frozen Pina Colada Daiquiri 🍹 for the occasion!
8pm - We are at chemist warehouse picking up my script from my hospital stay the other night before we drive home and crawl into bed.
9.30pm - Jie heads to the gym, Nevaeh heats up pasta from the other nights dinner and David and I are singing the lyrics to our fave love songs. We check our games and then David grabs us water and shuts the light off.
10pm - I text the kids goodnight and then snuggle my man and Sleeeeeeeeep! 😴
Photos below 👇🏾
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