Quiet Time

So I finally have a second to sit down, I am going to try to keep this blog up to date with my day to day life, coupled with some product review, tips I find that make my day go smoother, fun field trips, hair styles and whatever interesting or funny thing my children have done recently.

I finally finished homework time after spending several minutes trying to convince Kymora that she didn't need to draw lines on line paper. I am pretty sure this is one of those "any excuse to use my ruler moments". I managed to catch Anaya up on a weeks worth of math homework, since somehow her math hasn't actually made it home since Monday.

I however have managed to do absolutely none of my own homework. I spent my homework time spending quality time with my husband who is home from work sick today. I love that after all this time we still enjoy just being in each others company. You know you have found your lover (not just someone you love because in my opinion love is about finding the person God sent to love your soul) when you can sit in a room and quietly watch tv and say nothing and still walk away like you had the deepest conversation. Oh well, that just means I will have to put in a little extra homework effort tomorrow.

I am off to read a bed time story... here is tonights book


Or if you dont have the time to read to your kids they even have this one on video on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cOT4T2jDho

Tiana's Birthday

My 3rd oldest daughter Tiana turned 5 last weekend and she is by far my most difficult child to plan a party for. She really isn't into toys or theme parks, the only thing she is truly into is cats.... specifically tigers. So this past weekend I took her to the T.I.G.E.R. exhibit in Myrtle Beach.

(http://www.myrtlebeachsafari.com/lowbandwidth/main.html)

Where for $79 you can have your picture taken with a tiger cub, which was my 5 year old's dream come true. (Short of actually having her own tiger that is)

 However since she couldn't take one home we made sure she had one she could snuggle up with at home. Thanks Melissa & Doug (http://www.melissaanddoug.com/)

A little about me

So I have been told on numerous occasions "I don't know how you do it", or "You need a camera crew to follow you just being you", but recently I was told I should start a blog so here I am... blogging. My name is Porsche and I am a 27 year old married mother of 4 girls.

Anaya who is 7

Kymora who is 6 

 Tiana just turned 5 on the 26th

 And Taliya is the baby of the group, she is 3 and will be 4 in January.

Here they all are on the first day of school.

So I guess I can start this first post off by telling you why I am so busy (as if having 4 kids wasnt reason enough). A typical day for me goes something like this

• 6:15am Wake up and pick out the girls clothes for the day
• 6:20am Wake up girls 
• 7:00am Start my first leg of my very long commute to their school. My children attend a Magnet School in High Point NC which is roughly 25 miles away. Its a 30 minute drive for me each way which brings my total time just taking the children to and from school 2 hours and adds 100 miles to my car everyday. *smh*
• 8:20am is when I usually return home and during this time I am typically making breakfast for Taliya who stays home with me or trying to sneak a couple moments of sleep in. 
• 9:00am is in theory when my work day starts (its in theory because I have been out with pneumonia for awhile), I work from home for a cable company. However, since I have been home sick I take this time to prepare Taliya for kindergarten. Its never too early to start learning
• 1:00pm I need to be leaving out to pick up the girls from school. I arrive about an hour early to their school because its located right next to a park so this way I can take Taliya to the playground (we usually bring a bag lunch and picnic in the park) and walk a couple laps around the walking trail while waiting to pick the girls up. 
• 2:30pm is when the girls are dismissed from school
• 3:00pm is when I typically arrive back home and give the girls a snack. I try to get some of my own homework done, that doesn't always happen for a variety of reasons. I am currently a senior at North Carolina A&T majoring in Business Economics. 
• 4:00pm I start my housework for the day which typically includes at least 2 loads of laundry, washing the dishes because I am unfortunate enough to live in a house with no dishwasher, sweeping/ mopping the floors and supervising the girls cleaning their playroom and bedroom
• 5:00pm I start dinner, since I am not working (if I had been then I would have started it at 4) and when I am working this is the start of the second half of my shift. 
• 6:00pm is homework hour for the girls, since they attend a magnet school each child typically has between 30 minutes to an hour of homework each night
• 7:00p, starts bath time. Rather than bathe them individually which would take way too much water, or as a group which I used to when they were smaller bath time is divided into 2 30 minute baths where each girl takes turns choosing their bath partner
• 8:00pm starts bedtime, the girls are allowed to watch 30 minutes of TV so they can settle themselves into bed. My husband usually gets home from work around this time. 
• 8:30pm is lights out for the girls
• 9:00pm would be when I finished my workday
• 9:30-11:00 is when I try to spend quiet time with my husband... this time varies based on what homework I actually got accomplished earlier in the day though. 
• 12:00am is typically when I crawl into bed. 

That was exhausting just typing it.