My Day

In my profile I described myself as a fulltime mother, wife, and employee. Therefore, I thought I'd let you in on a day in life with Kristi Duncan....

5:30am- first alarm goes off...I turn it off
5:45am-second alarm goes off...I turn if off...I have a total of 3 alarms that go off because most of the time I'm so exhausted and in a deep sleep, I've at times (too many) turned off my alarm and woke up late.
6:00am- third alarm goes off and I finally get up, shower and make coffee
6:15am- Connor wakes up and I turn on the TV and make him breakfast
6:30am- Still getting ready, tell Jason it's time to get up, go layout Connor's clothes
6:45am- almost done getting ready, Camryn wakes up, make her breakfast (after asking her for 5 minutes what she wants and she finally tells me cereal no milk. Which I'm against but at this point I just want her to eat so I can finish getting ready.....Jason gets up.
7:00am- finished getting ready, pack Connor's snack and lunch, Connor is getting dressed.
7:00-7:30- Get my lunch together, get Camryn Dressed and head out the door. At 7:20 Jason took Connor to school.
8:00am- Get to Camryn's school, drop her off after several minutes of hugging and kissing, she drags this out, which Jason has told me several times she doesn't pull this act with him. Of course I've made it clear it's hard for me to let go too :(
8:15am- arrive at work
9:00am-12:00pm- Meetings
12:00-1:00pm- attend a lunch with a group at JCP called Wings- it's a commitee with Successful Women with JC Penney's. Great meeting, very uplifting.
1:00-3:00pm- more meetings.
3:00-5:15pm- Desk Time
5:15pm- Leave work to pick up Camryn then head to our friend Amy's who takes care of Connor after school.
6:15pm- Get home with Connor and Camryn. While they are winding down and having Play time, I jump on the treadmill for 20minutes. Feels Great!
6:45-7:10pm- The kids eat dinner, and dessert while watching TV. I'm eating a salad standing at the counter, going through the mail, the kids folders, Camryn says Mommy, please come eat with us. Can't resist and sit down with my children to eat. A moment I always cherish. Jason has a bike ride tonight with work so he will be home late, or typically he would be home soon eating as well. I start the kids bath, while it's filling up I test Connor on his weekly spelling words. He of course gets them all right :)
7:10-7:30pm- Kids are in bath. I'm unloading back packs, getting them ready for the next day, cleaning up after dinner.
7:40pm- Everyone is in thier pj's and Connor is reading us his book for school that he has to read every night, then he has to write one sentence he has learned about his book. His sentence is "Spiders can live on web's."
7:45pm- set TV on Blue's Clues for Camryn and I tuck Connor in and pray with him and rub his back as he falls asleep.
8:00pm- Get Camryn in bed, read and rub her back...this takes a little bit longer to put Camryn to bed since she is still taking naps. Not sure what time she went to sleep because I fall asleep and wake up at 9:00pm. Jason called at 8:40 to say he is on his way home.
9:00pm-Clean the kitchen, Jason walks in at 9:10 :)
9:15pm- Finally sit down to relax and watch some TV..while I read "The Brand Gap" required for work, which must be completed by Friday.
10:00pm- get on blog and now going to try and watch some more TV with Hubby and unwind...will probably fall asleep on the couch.

Wow, i'm even more exhausted when I see my typical day written out. People often ask me how I do it, they don't see how it's possible. Not going to lie, if I didn't have a career before I had Connor and Camryn I would be at home with them. But, I love what I do at JC Penney's, I've worked very hard to be where I'm at and I wouldn't trade being a mother or a wife either. My children and Jason are my passion, everything thing I do, I do for them. It is my purpose in life to be a good Christian, Mother and Wife and I know I'm good at all 3.
Goodnight....

Friday

Friday is my favorite day of the week, and it's not because the week has ended from work and school, but because it is Movie night every Friday at the Duncan house. I love when we create memories, and I know Connor and Camryn will cherish the Friday's we had when we just ordered pizza and watched movies. I'm sure it will end when they become teenagers :(  But for now we will take one Friday at a time!  Last night we watched "How to Train a Dragon", very cute movie. Unfortunately, Camryn is sick...caught something from the birthday party we went to last Saturday. Therefore she didn't make it all the way through, but Connor was simply content with his Popcorn, Juice, Blanket and Daddy by his side. So cute, Daddy loves it!

Then it's Saturday and we have to watch as daddy drives away on his bike to work. Every Saturday the kids "Zoom Zoom", which is running on the sidewalk while you drive away. Next Saturday I will take a pic and post it, so funny. The neighbors look at us like we are crazy, but we wouldn't trade it for the world. Of course since its beautiful in Dallas, Jason rode his bike (picture attached). Not many people know that we have a bike. Jason is a great driver, but I don't think he realizes I pray the entire time until I get his call or text that he made it to work. You see, we live off of a hwy called 380 and there is at least 1 accident a day on this death hwy!  Mostly because it's in the country so Semi's and big trucks take it to avoid major highways.
Like I said Camryn is sick so this is keeping us inside most of the day, poor Connor...at least he has his Wii (he is happy). We are hoping to go to the fair tomorrow for the last day, and Camryn has never been and Connor was 2 last time we went.
I will keep you posted...hahahahahaha, no pun intended :)

Mario and Cinderella

Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year. I have two beautiful children that love to play dress up whenever they can....and Halloween is the time in which Jason and I will dress them up as whatever they want to be. We are lucky that thier requests are still simple, which is Mario from Super Mario Brothers, and Cinderella. For a split second I almost asked Camryn if she would be Luigi because I knew she would say yes, but I didn't have the heart to make her dress like a boy :)  But, it sure would have been cute.  This past Saturday was the first of many times we will see Mario and Cinderella running through the house...We had a costume birthday party for a friend of the family . We hope one day Camryn will find her prince, but not until she is 30! For now Daddy can be her prince.  Enjoy the pictures!

Zebra

I was so excited to see I have some followers...I appreciate the support and I hope I can keep you entertained! :)
In my first post I mentioned how I use to be Kristi plus 3 and a Cat and a Frog. Well a month ago, Jason went out into the garage and sitting right by the door was a little frog. Jason has a brilliant idea to keep it as a pet for the kids. Being the supportive wife and mother that I am I go to Pet Co and get the frog a cage, rocks and live crickets. Yep, live ones...they can't eat anything dead only live crickets..nice.  Camryn immediately gets attached to the frog which is soon named Colin Duncan and reminds daddy nightly we must feed the frog.  Jason feeding the frog last about a week until the first set of crickets are gone, so of course I have to get over my fear of jumping live crickets attacking me and feed Colin.  This last about a week and Colin ends up going 3 days with no crickets, yes awful but this is the same time I just had my Kidney surgery.  So, Daddy finally breaks the news to Connor and Camryn that we must let the frog go live in our back yard with other frog friends and free to eat any crickets he wants. MELT DOWN!!!!
Finally after counseling from Daddy and Nana, Camryn and Connor agree it is best to let Colin Go.
2 Weeks has gone by and we are still praying for Colin during our prayer list everynight and tonight after the end of the prayer Camryn declares she needs a ZEBRA to replace Colin...NICE.
Thanks Daddy :)

12:15

Well finally set up my blog..I've wanted to do this for quite some time. To share things going on in my life and to just have an outlet to vent or question life in general, lol :)  I also hope to have topics for the week on issues I may be having and hope other mothers, wives and women will offer suggestions, or life experiences that would help not only me but maybe other's following my blog. 
As you can see I'm quite busy, a mother of 2 beautiful and healthy children. Connor who is 6 and in first grade and Camryn our 4 year old princess.  I'm married to a wonderful man, Jason who puts up with me (at times, lol)...we also have a cat Max..hence the title of my blog.  Until recently we also had a pet frog which of course was my husbands idea, that is another story that I will have to share at another time. 
It is now 12:19 and I must go to sleep, work comes early in the morning.

Goodnight,