Friday, December 26 2025
7:15am
You wake up, eh, you have time to sleep, you go back to sleep.
7:40am
You wake up, you tell Alexa good morning, so the lights turn on. You grab your phone. Eh, the snow storm is looking more like a bust. Owen comes in to cuddle with you. You tell him you should go downstairs and get breakfast together. You all him if he wants almond butter sandwiches. He rather have Cheerios with almond butter.
Glenn is downstairs playing video games. You tell him good morning and to come up for breakfast. You hear up the oatmeal and put Owen’s Cheerios in a bowl. Glenn watches you spoon the oatmeal into his bowl. “What are you going to eat?” “I’ll put cocoa powder in the rest of this and have what I always have ” he wants all the peanut butter. As soon as he sits down to eat he says, “ew, it’s different!” Sigh. “Yes, I accidentally got the peanut butter with salt in it.” “It’s disgusting!” He makes you take it all out and replace it with almond butter. Owen comes downstairs to eat. Then Glenn states he doesn’t feel good and he’s not hungry and goes back downstairs tok contribute playing his game.
You message Julia since you’re a bad friend and forgot to wish her a Merry Christmas yesterday. You browse Reddit and Amazon for your dad’s replacement Christmas gift for the one that never came and Etsy to use your gift card.
One of your childhood friends had triplets a few months ago. You haven’t talked to her in like 30 years, but you thoroughly enjoy seeing the cute baby pictures on Facebook. You get a lot of weather stuff on your feed when there’s going to be a storm. Everyone is saying something different about this one. Looks like your area is going to get a mix of snow and ice though. That doesn’t sound like much fun. At least we’ve already had one good snow this year. Aww, u still have the skill sharing meeting on your calendar. You haven’t talked to the Cool People/Dreamfinders in a while now besides wishing them Merry Christmas. You hope they’re doing ok.
9:30am
Ok, time to get moving on the day. You make an oil change appointment for your car Monday. You go brush your teeth. Julia messages back, so you message her. You ask Glenn if he wants to go for a walk or if you should exercise. It is really frickin’ cold out. You tell Owen to put on clothes so you can take pictures of him. Glenn doesn’t want to go for a walk, but he wants a snack inside. You tell him he should finish his breakfast, but he says, that is not a snack. You tell him, he can have both popcorn and his breakfast. You tell him he needs to finish his strawberries before he takes another snack. You and Julia talk about how expensive houses are right now. Glenn eats his strawberries and then has some cheez-its. You make yourself some chestnut tea. Glenn wants you to read him last year’s day in the life, so you do. Owen asks where his pajamas are, you tell him I’m the laundry basket. Glenn asks Owen if he had a vitamin. Owen takes a snack too. Glenn steals some more cheez-its, you tell them there’s so much real food!
10:44am
You finish your tea and decide to go exercise since the kids are back to playing video games. You go and get dressed and then go down to the basement to do 35 minutes on the elliptical while you watch stranger things. You’ve been doing Les Mills workouts and love the body combat classes, but try to keep a variety of different stuff in your routine. You remind the kids they also have their Christmas gifts they can play with today.
You go upstairs to get cleaned up. You out away laundry and all alexa to play, “bring me to life” since your band is adding that song for Valentine’s. Oh boy, lunch time. Nothing better than holiday leftovers. You ask the kids if they want lunch too. Owen wants lasagna. Glenn wants ice cream. You tell him he needs to eat real food. He’s very angry. He doesn’t want anything you offer.
You hear up Owen’s lasagna and make a salad for yourself. Glenn decides he’ll eat chips and cheese even though we don’t have guac. They’re watching the iPad, sigh. You remind them if they’re watching something on peacock, they have to finish it today because it expires tomorrow. You heat up some chicken parm. he ate most of his chips and cheese, ok, he can have ice cream. You hear Bryan’s up.
You ask Glenn if you should have pie or ice cream. He says pie, he wants all the ice cream. But the pie will go bad first anyway. Mmmm pie. Is good pie. Owen’s playing with something in the living room. Glenn wants more ice cream. “Where’d all my marshmallows go?” You get him some more from the freezer. You had doubts he’s eat the s’mores ice cream. Guess you didn’t have to worry. You get him water.
Owen’s putting together his robot car.
You all him if he needs a screwdriver. It comes with two. Glenn wants to play a game with you. You warm him you might have to come help Owen. He asks you to guess what game you’re playing. Um, the same one as yesterday? Yup. He asks if you can wait to play, he has to go potty.
You realize Owen didn’t peel off the protective film. He says it’s impossible. You help him unscrew everything and remove the film. Then you play Glenn’s game.
You complete a quest to find the golden flower. You hold up cheez-it you find on the floor. You ask if that’s it? Yes! No, it was the deplo next to it. What’s next? “Poop!” “Hug mama!” He gives hugs. He sings a song about the “stupid quest.” Now we have to find all the pieces of the truck. Owen sounds frustrated. You help tighten his screws. Owen’s things is pretty complicated. You find more items for Glenn’s “picture.” Owen’s going to take a break. The kids are a bit rambunctious. You feel in your pocket, “why is there a lamp post in my pocket?” It’s from the tiny Christmas tree. Really, how did that happen?
Glenn steals an ice cream shop from the new town. The town got exploded. You’re in a new town now. A vicious fox jumps out of the box and takes a bus. Glenn gets very frustrated with the box aaaaand the game is over. “Throw that stuff box away!” Oh dear. You pretend to put the box by the garbage saying you’ll throw it away later. “Can I cuddle you until you feel better?” “No, go away! And put the box back in there!” He goes downstairs.
2:18pm
You hear Owen having technical difficulties downstairs. Glenn is also getting upset about some game. You decide to wait a few minutes before doing anything else to see if someone wants to do something with you. You hear Owen and Bryan talking, there’s a problem with the new controller? Bryan is angry.
Why everyone always get more snow than us? Ok, you should clean .. something. Closet? Bathroom? Let’s do upstairs bathrooms.
Wtf is this black crud in the bathtub? It’s not mold. You get some baking soda and a toothbrush, seems to kinda get it up. You hear Brian telling at Glenn and Glenn storms upstairs. You enlist his help. He soon tires and asks for a snack. You get him some popcorn before resuming your shower scrubbing.
Not perfectly clean, but your hands and back are tied. You do the toilets and call it a day. Eh, good enough
You go to have a cup of water. Glenn is watching one of the Despicable Me movies. Glenn wants to play again. Guess we’re having a pillow fight. You’re pretty sure he just wants to fall over. He doesn’t hit you much. “Actually, can you just hit me? My arms are tied?” Sure, kid. He asks where his little pillow is. His closet? Yes. Gah, death by a thousand mini thwacks! Then you play a very frustrating game of human wack-a-mole. You got him on the nose during one of the boss fights and he gets very angry and that’s the end of that, but you’re tired anyway.
Oh he’s back. He says he’ll forgive you if you give him a bath and then make own get off the xbox so he can play with Lyra. Well, you can try, maybe he’ll want to build the car some more. Glenn asks if he can use one of the bath bombs. Well, you gotta make them first.
You end up giving him a shower since the bath water is kinda cold. You help him wash and then get it and get dressed. Ok, more video game time. Owen eventually comes up to build the car again with you, yay!
5:08pm
You help him assemble the camera module. Matt sends a message to the Cool People group chat: “Movie time: ‘Merry New Year'” you have no idea. Bryan and Owen don’t know either. Farheen got it, it’s Trading Places? Never seen it. Owen has disappeared. But we haven’t assembled the ultrasonic sensor module yet :( You send a clap emoji to the group chat. Oh, Samsung animated that, oh, that’s a lot of clapping.
Next year I’m doing the day on a work day if the kids are gonna ignore me most of the day. We haven’t even played baby monster! At least it sounds like they’re being civil down there. Bryan’s almost done with dinner. He’s making tofu pasta. He says it hasn’t started snowing yet. You both tell for the kids to come up and eat. Owen says he finally was able to get Glenn to join the game. Glenn says he doesn’t want to eat anything. You tell him he really should. He asks if he could have a blueberry bar. You guess that’s better than nothing. Glenn’s very excited, “it’s snowing!” It is. Let’s see what it does. And he abandons us to play with Lyra. Bryan explains he can’t return the xbox controller he got because he doesn’t know if the kids broke it. You guys look at the forecast again. Might get lots of snow, might not. Aaaaand now Owen’s gone too.
Hmm, should you eat the s’mores ice cream? Maybe just an itty little bit? Lyra’s eating lunch, so Owen will take a bath. Bryan recounts various humorous police videos he’s watched. That’s not snow anymore, that’s sleet and rain :(
6:40pm
Glenn gained ten levels apparently? You don’t know what that means. They sound very excited. At least they’re having fun. You look at weather updates. Others are mostly seeing sleet too. This guy’s saying is going to go back and forth. You decide to go shower. When you get out, you go downstairs to see if you can persuade anyone to play baby monster. Glenn says he’s hungry, so you have him come upstairs. He wants chicken fingers. You make him some and you play briefly while you wait for them to heat up.
7:50pm
It’s reading time. You make Glenn turn off the movie and you guys go upstairs. It’s snowing again, he’s all excited. You read Snowflake Bentley. He gets a bit silly with his reading. Between that and the snow it takes 20 minutes to read the book.
You get him his toothbrush and he informs you he forgot to brush his teeth this morning. You tell him he needs to do that every day after breakfast whether he gets dressed or not. Hopefully Owen brushed his. You put your PJs on and fill Glenn’s water. He goes potty and sings Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree. Glenn informs you it’s raining again. You cuddle in bed. He keeps looking out the window to see if it’s snowing again. Nope. He asks you math questions and answers some. Bryan comes in to say goodnight too. Glenn asks what you’re making for breakfast tomorrow. French toast. He asks what you’re making today. ??? You tuck him in and give him a big hug tonight and go downstairs.
Owen give you a thumbs down, no Deep Space Nine tonight. Guess you’ll watch Stranger Things. You make your tea and oatmeal for tomorrow. You bring your tea downstairs. You’ll have to jump on the trampoline, you have less than 5000 steps today. You get a couple thousand and then sit with your neck massager and drink your tea.
9:30pm
You tell Owen it’s time to go upstairs. You brush your teeth while you wait for him to finish up. You come back down and you cuddle on the couch. You ask if he brushed his teeth today, he did, oh good. He asks about the space in the ceiling where the light used to be. You talk about the house and how the previous owners did a lot of work, but didn’t do any of it right and you had to get people to fix a lot of stuff. You still need a lot of stuff fixed. You tell him Glenn asked about when he has to go back to school and he was not happy to find out a week from now. You tell Owen it’s stupid they have to go back for one day before the weekend. He asks if he can stay home. No. You tell him he already missed two days of school for vacation. You ask if he’s doing take your kids to work day again this year. He says he will, it’s better than school. You send him upstairs to bed.
Sigh
You watch more Stranger Things before going to bed yourself.
11:05pm
It’s already past your bedtime, you’re not going to be able to watch all of the finale. Go to bed. You say goodnight too Bryan. He asks if you think he should eat the leftovers or leave for Owen. You think he likes the tofu pasta more than the lasagna. Still a pathetic amount of snow it there. Oh well. You go upstairs, take out your contacts and read The Midnight Library while you use your stretching massage mat thing. Then you tell Alexa bedtime to turn off the lights and go to sleep.