The alarm went off at 6 am. I hit snooze a few times, finally getting up around 6:30. Juliette wasn’t in our bed (shocking!) and she hadn’t woken up demanding breakfast and Disney channel (which she normally does while I’m getting ready in the mornings), so I went to check on her before I left for work to make sure she was still alive. (Yes, almost 5 years later I’m still checking to make sure my baby is breathing!)

I made it to work at 7:40. I had a pretty normal work day filling orders, fielding emails, getting that sales sheet from yesterday mailed out, and working on building a mailing list of Louisiana middle school librarians (which is going to take a while...using a alphabetized list of towns and only got to the letter D today). Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Matt and Juliette spent the day as usual with Matt reading/studying for his big tests that are coming up in a few weeks and Juliette playing.

I got home a little after 5 and Matt was working on the computer and Juliette was playing a new game on the IPad that Matt had downloaded for her. I made dinner (shake-n-bake pork chops, loaded mashed potatoes, and green beans) and after we ate, we went outside and played soccer. (Juliette had her little goal and ball sitting by the door when I walked in from work, so apparently she'd been planning this all day.) After "playing" soccer (or more like kicking the ball around) we came in and I read a book to Juliette in front of the fan while she cooled off, then she got a bath, and now she is in our bed watching a movie. Matt is back to reading again (it never ends!) and I just washed the dishes from dinner, put Juliette's name on all her school supplies, and am now sitting here blogging and watching HGTV.

Today was more of our typical day. I was hoping to get pictures of Juliette tonight in her school uniform so I could post them on here for the grandparents, but I'll have to do that tomorrow night, so I'll have pictures on the post tomorrow.