Munchkie's Mama and So Much More: Munchkie and Mommy Monday

Monday

Munchkie and Mommy Monday

I am very slowly adjusting to city life. I can get where I need to by bus or by subway. I'm learning to walk to the Family Dollar down the street or popping into a CVS I pass by instead of hopping in my car and going to Target. I love the convenience of being able to walk most places. I love that we're hardly ever filling our car with gas.

However, I do not like the fact that I have to wake up at 5:15am and leave the house by ten til six. Or that IF I get off my twelve and a half hour shift on time I can hope to be home by 8:30pm. I do not like that these days are long and tiring. I feel like I have to spend a day recovering from them, which to me defeats the purpose of working only three days a week.

So on my days off, I try to give myself at least one recoop day. We are paying for Munchkie to go to daycare five days a week, but I keep her home with me at least one day each week. We need our time together. Time to do fun things and spend time together. Today started off a little rough, I had a hard time pulling myself together, but once I was up and going, we made the most of our day.

We walked to the neighborhood square, mailed some packages at the post office. Then we picked up some pull ups for big girls at night and stopped at the little ice cream shop. There's a crate full of games in the corner to play while you're eating your ice cream, homemade soup or fresh lobster roll.

We stopped at the grocery store to pick up a few things and headed home, with a little hand in the box of cereal to help erase the phrase "I hun-gee Mommy"

Apparently I wore her out. I arrived home and this is what I found. Hand still in the box.

I had to go in and wake her up after a three hour nap. Then we went for a walk, bus ride and two subways to meet Munchkie's Daddy after school.

Watching out the window is so much fun! Especially when there are sailboats out on the river we're crossing.

My plan was to arrive downtown, take a picture of a recipe in a cookbook at Barnes and Noble, pick up Munchkie's Daddy and head home. Well, it took us almost two hours to get downtown. There was a really cute little table set up in the kids section with scrap paper and crayons, so we sat and colored for a little bit.

And the apple must not have lasted too long because the phrase "I hun-gee Mom" returned. So we ended up walking to a nearby Chipotle to fill those empty tummies.