Diversity Day

What does "diversity" mean? Well, let's take a look at one day in my life:

• Up at 5:45 am to feed a 4 month old baby
• At 6:30 am 3 year old crawls into bed with me and asks what stuffed animals I like to sleep with at night. Awwww...then procedes to jump on bed and wakes up sleeping baby.
• Have conversation with husband about marathon training after he returns from 10 mile morning run. Feel terribly lazy and inadequate, despite the fact that I was up and out of bed 4 times the past night.
• Grandma arrives at 9 am to help take care of 3 year old and baby.
• I run to the computer to create a syllabus and some grading rubrics for a graduate level reseach class I'll be teaching in a month.
• Receive email from a woman I'll be working with this weekend to teach a class in Fort Collins. Oh crap! I need to prepare for that class!
• Feed hungry baby, again.
• Back to email.
• Take children to McDonald's for lunch to celebrate successfully using the toilet. Realize nothing on their menu is really fit for adult consumption.
• Play peek-a-boo with 3 month old while trying to counsel a student over the phone on how to apply to a PhD program (yes, both simultaneously).
• Hungry baby...
• Naptime for everyone 3 years old and under. I may have eaten my own lunch in there somewhere.
• Back to the grading rubrics.
• Talk to husband on phone.
• Change and clean poopy underwear...so much for the potty success of yesterday.
• Take garden tour with 3 year old...we find tomatoes and basil and decide to make homemade pizza with homemade tomato sauce using herbs from the garden. Eat shelled peas on the deck. I love my garden!
• Hungry baby (see a pattern here?)
• Get praised by 3 year old and husband for pizza - yea!
• Crazy bath and bed time routine.
• Back to the computer to plan class for this Saturday. I wonder if what I'm putting together is even coherent by this time of day. I also wonder what it would be like to sit down and work for a couple of hours at a time on my job...I remember the days when I had a nice 9-5 work schedule...
• Attempt to set up babysitters so that husband and I can have a dinner out for our anniversary and a short trip to Saratoga next week.
• See emails from students needing me to review their work. Decide to put that off until tomorrow, although I have a strict policy of getting back to students within 24 hours. But, I think feedback that is written in cohesive English is probably better than what I'd produce right now!
• Sit down on couch with husband and he asks me what show would keep me awake. I laugh at that and promptly fall asleep (it's 8:45 pm).
• Wake up at 9:00 pm when baby cries. Decide she's had enough coddling and let her fuss a bit. Miraculously she goes back to sleep quickly.
• Drag self off couch and decide after this day I only have about 20 seconds of energy left. That 20 seconds goes toward brushing teeth...contacts will just have to stay dirty.
• Last 5 seconds of concsiousness is dedicated to a prayer that the baby sleeps at least until midnight...zzzzz

And, the craziest thing about all this is, I really had a good day!