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September 18, 2019

No.295: Our Extraordinary Ordinary Life // September 2019 Edition

A monthly project featuring ten photos (or more!) throughout the day that show a peek into our extraordinarily ordinary life.  This month, I decided to do an hourly recap, inspired by Tabitha’s Day in the Life post.

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

6:30 AM – Grateful for a good night’s sleep.  I normally wake up about an hour earlier, so I must have needed the rest! 

7:30 AM – Grateful for thirty minutes and 1.75 miles walking on the treadmill. 

8:30 AM – Grateful for breakfast with my little beggar.  She sits at my side and hopes something will miraculously fall from my plate.  Those eyes!

9:30 AM – Grateful for a read-aloud that has the kids calling, “One more chapter!” and a successful science experiment.

 10:30 AM – Grateful to find a way to repurpose old, broken crayons.  I went through our supplies while the kids made Japanese mandarin duck sculptures with Sculpey clay.

11:30 AM – Grateful for her enthusiasm as she practiced reading.  We’re changing everything up again to try to get some reading momentum.  I hope this works.

 12:30 PM – Grateful for a moment to myself outside during our lunch hour. 

 1:30 PM – Grateful for plenty of clothes to wash and dry and fold.

 2:30 PM – Grateful for the lesson that the smallest acts of kindness can mean so much.  My oldest passed on his desk to TJ and secretly moved it into his closet to become a little Lego room.  When he revealed what he’d done, TJ was so excited and hugged both the desk and his brother. 


____ 3:30 PM _____ Oops, I must have missed this one!

 4:30 PM – Grateful that Lucy is almost 100% back to normal, although that means she’s back to her crazy antics and sometimes naughty behavior too.

 5:30 PM – Grateful for reducing food waste with Refrigerator Clean-Out Night.  We fill the counter with all of the leftovers and little bits of food that need to be eaten up and the kids go to town creating whatever they want.


 6:30 PM – Grateful for mild evenings to play outside.  I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time.


 7:30 PM – Grateful for bathtime to clean up sweaty heads and dirty feet.


8:30 PM – Grateful for a new book to crack open at the end of a good day.

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Comments

  1. Laura M says

    September 18, 2019 at 2:44 pm

    I love seeing others' days!

    • Ashley says

      September 18, 2019 at 8:30 pm

      Me too!

  2. Tabitha Studer says

    September 18, 2019 at 8:06 pm

    the focus on gratitude throughout the day is perfect! beautiful, regular, incredible life <3 (also, your windows!! love.)

    • Ashley says

      September 18, 2019 at 8:30 pm

      Thanks so much for the inspiration!

  3. Cristina says

    September 18, 2019 at 9:18 pm

    Nice book piles! My oldest got the Reading Nature’s Signs book for his birthday and I might have stolen it 😂

    • Ashley says

      September 18, 2019 at 9:48 pm

      Oh man, my nightstand is out of control. For every book I read and remove, I seem to add three to replace it!

  4. Shelly Cunningham says

    September 24, 2019 at 4:40 pm

    I love this peek into your day.
    Your book piles make me swoon. When I bought my new bedside tables I dreamed of stacking books on them just.like.you!

    • Ashley says

      September 25, 2019 at 11:57 am

      Oh I love that! I'm sure it looks like clutter to most, but I love being surrounded by my favorite things. 🙂

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