Please describe a typical schedule

Please describe a typical schedule for your family during the week and weekends, beginning at 7:00AM. Please indicate what your childcare plan (day care or after-school and any preliminary providers) would be based on the age of the child for whom you expect to provide care.

This was a toughie. It's one of the thousands of questions from the written component of our paperwork… which we have just completed after three hard weeks. Since both of us have bad handwriting, I've been typing out both our answers, then we cut them out with scissors, paste them into the form and copy the form. Answering the schedule question around the age of the child was horribly difficult, considering that we're looking at wide age range: from 0 to 5.

I'll describe my schedule today. It's simple, on theme and I'm too tired for a more substantive blog post. I guess it's good practice for learning how we'll need to schedule our time once children are involved.

7:30 AM: Outta bed! Showers, coffee and check internet.
9:00-9:30: Mom arrives. I got to Unitarian church with her. Meanwhile husband reads Sunday NY Times then goes out on an errand.
9:30-11:15: Election sermon. Minister exhorts everyone to do more political activism (for which party is unstated but obvious). Makes a great point about the Iraq war and says Jesus probably would have supported gay marriage.
11:15-11:30: Unitarian coffee and socializing.
11:30-12:00: Stop by Target.
12:00-12:15: Get back home, pick up dog, collect husband.
12:15-12:30: Drive to mom's house.
12:30-1:00: Eat brunch cooked by mom: herb crackers with tomato aspic made last night, then grits, bacon and scrambled eggs. More coffee.
1:00-3:00: All go doorbelling for local Democratic candidate. Husband meets strange man who looks exactly like Newt Gingrich.
3:00-7:30: Mom stays and starts work on the moveon.org phone bank; I go back home with husband and dog. Husband mows grass, I work on adoption application for at least four hours.
7:30-8:00: Check internet, write blog post.
8:00-8:30: Cook and eat some hamburgers with zucchini.
8:30-10:00: ????????
10:00-11:00: Watch The Wire on HBO.
11:00-11:30: Read a bit then go to sleep.