A day in the life of the Eckbergs

I look at the calendar and I'm stunned to see that December 2006, this last month of 2006, the year of "The Elbow", is almost over. I haven't had time to blog much lately. The Eckberg family day-to-day life runs pretty much like this lately:

• 6:20am - Joe gets out of bed
• 6:30am - Karen hits snooze button 2 times
• 6:48am - K gets out of bed, heads downstairs for coffee, check of the weather, and the last ten minutes of Buffy.
• 7am to 8am - M wakes up, K,J, & M get ready and, depending on the day, either J or K takes M to Nana T's or the YWCA daycare
• 8:30am - 4:30pm - K gets to work where she does lots of research, typing (yeah, two hands!), runs rehearsals for the college's Staff & Faculty band & chorus (yeah, music training comes in handy), figures out the new sharepoint blog for the department
• 5pm - pick M up wherever she might be that day and head home
• 5:30pm - start dinner until J comes home and makes it yummier, daily dose of M's movie of the evening (usually a Disney princess movie, but she seems to really like the Wizard of Oz & even The Christmas Story!)
• 6pm - dinner
• 7pm - 8pm - evening activity (sometimes computer games / out for an "adventure" / book reading)
• 8pm - M bedtime
• 8:30pm - 10:30pm - K&J "free-time"

When I write this all down, it looks so boring! It certainly is full.

Our schedule will get a bit different come January. I'm going to start working 5 days a week, 6 hours a day. M will spend 3 days a week @ the YWCA, 2 days w/ her Nana T. I'll be able to have afternoons to run errands, clean house, WORK OUT! I'm very thrilled, actually. The plan is for me to get a pass at the YWCA and use their pools and fitness room. It'll be easier than making plans for the evening!