As a part of ARiM, I was invited to join the quest of writing down the record of my whole day - 15th July 2019. This particular day was going to be just an arbitrary Monday. Many mothers across the globe did the same on that same day: they wrote down what happened to them... Lenka wrote "Don’t worry if nothing particular is happening that day for you. The beauty of the texts are in the details of an ordinary life, everything is interesting." She also asked to write from midnight to midnight, keep it all in present tense and until about 1500 characters. My original text consisted of almost 6000 characters. You can read both of them here :) SHORTENED VERSION 00:00 Breastfeed my daughter and fall asleep 08:35 Wake up, go to pee and return to bed to breastfeed S. 09:12 Get up, go to the kitchen to wash dishes 10:15 Hang out in the living room with S. and O. 10:45 Breastfeed S., prepare to leave 11:03 Leave home and cycle to the studio. 13:00 Cycle back home. Grocery shopping on the way 13:40 Reach home, lay down to breastfeed S. 14:15 Fold some clothes while S. plays with modeling clay 14:46 Attempt to draw with wax crayons while breastfeeding in the living room 14:50 We lay down to nurse but S. doesn't fall asleep 15:10 Get up, wrap S. in the carrier 15:55 Fold away some more clothes 16:45 Go out to the local playground. Tired. I sit on a bench and cry 17:10 Ask O. to throw me toilette paper from the kitchen window, take the stroller and go for a ride 17:25 Reach the supermarket, get 1 liter of rice milk and Moomin activity book for S. 17:45 Reach the big playground 17:50 My friend comes with her daughter. We sit and talk and the girls play in the sandbox 18:50 Start to move towards home. Girls share the stroller 19:30 Reach home. S. wants some rice 20:00 Sit down to eat 20:10 S. draws on the kitchen table 20:28 Finish hanging laundry 20:46 Go to bathe and brush teeth while in the water 21:30 Turn off the light 22:00 S. falls asleep while nursing. I get up to drink some tea and work on the computer 22:15 S. wakes up, I take her to up to pee. We lay down to breastfeed 22:50 S. is asleep again. I get up and continue writing 23:55 Drink the remains of my cold rooibos tea ORIGINAL VERSION
00:00 I feed S. and fall asleep in the middle of it. Can't remember if I woke up during the night. Very tired. 08:35 I wake up, go to pee and return to bed to breastfeed S. 08:55 I get up to get some toilette paper for S' runny nose. She sits on the bed and picks her nose. For a while there's silence, then S. says that snorts will disappear if she will drink more milk, then she jumps under the blanket to nurse. 09:12 We get up. S. goes to pee. 09:15 I put shirt on S. and leave her in bed drawing, then go to the kitchen to prepare lemon water for us. 09:25 I help S. to dress fully and go to the kitchen to wash the dishes. S. is in the living room playing with her father. 09:55 I put on laundry to wash and prepare grapes for breakfast. 10:10 We eat grapes while making things from modelling clay. 10:15 I put on the pant pad for my period, dress up and hang out in the living room with S. and O. 10:45 I soak sunflower and raisins to eat later in the day, breastfeed S. and prepare to leave for the studio. 11:03 I leave home and cycle to the studio. 11:26 I reach the studio. Finish small painting, rewrite one poem, reread one of my writing practice notebooks and talk on a phone to my friend. 13:00 I leave the studio and cycle back home. Grocery shopping on the way. 13:40 I reach home, go to pee and lay down to breastfeed S. 14:00 O. falls asleep, I leave the bedroom with S. so he could have some rest. I much on fresh dates while we form modelling clay. 14:15 I fold some clothes. S. plays with modeling clay and makes little rainbow rolls. 14:40 I open the washing machine and bring the wet clothes to the bathroom to hang. 14:41 I walk to the living room to throw tiny modelling-clay balls to the toilette paper cardboard roll. S. calls it "throwing balls to the house". Then I escape to the kitchen to do some little washing up. 14:46 I attempt to draw a small triptych with wax crayons while breastfeeding S. in the living room. 14:50 We lay down to nurse but S. doesn't fall asleep 15:10 I get up, wrap S. in the carrier and go to the living room. 15:25 S. wants to leave the carrier. I try to fix the spinning wheel. 15:30 I go to the kitchen to prepare a smoothie for us but don't get to do it and instead I come back to the living room to quickly sweep the loads of dust from where the spinning wheel was standing. S. tries to climb my back, I don't let her, she gets upset and goes to O. 15:45 I put on te water for tea 15:55 I fold away some more clothes 16:00 S. and O. are picking cherries under the blanket in our bed. I realize the water is boiling, then make some rooibos tea 16:15 Trying to get S. to dress fully in order to go out 16:45 We go out to the local playground. S. refuses to be in a carrier. We find a rowan tree and start picking the berries. 17:05 I'm tired. I sit on a bench and begin to cry. S. swings by herself and asks me why I'm crying. 17:10 I ask O. to throw me toilette paper from the kitchen window, take the stroller from our car boot and go with S. for a ride 17:25 We reach the supermarket, get 1 liter of rice milk, 2 limes and Moomin activity book for S. I buy the book secretly but she discovers it two minutes after leaving the shop. 17:40 I call O. He says he will join us soon 17:45 We reach the big playground. S. goes to some lady to show her book. I sit in the sun to rest and knit 17:50 I have a small conversation with grandmother of a girl who plays in the sandbox with S. My friend comes with her daughter. We are surprised and happy to see each-other. We sit on the bench and talk and the girls play together in the sandbox. 18:20 O. comes by for a while, then cycles to work 18:50 We start to move towards home. Girls share the stroller. S. takes B. on her knees. We wave goodbye kisses at each-other and separate. 19:30 I reach home with S. we have some buckwheat left from O's dinner, but S. wants rice 19:40 I cook rice, put batteries from our fairy lights to charge, take off the dirty bed sheet and shake the sand from our blankets while standing on the balcony 20:00 We sit down to eat rice with sunflower oil, salt and tomatoes 20:10 S. asks for more rice without tomatoes, then draws on the kitchen tale and refuses to blow her nose 20:15 I eat more rice without tomatoes. S. keeps on drawing 20:20 S. eats up her rice, says she's eaten it quickly like a cat. 20:22 S. jumps on the bed and I join her for some cuddling-tickling 20:23 S. asks for her Moomin book, then she looks trough it while I'm making the bed 20:28 S. brings the potty to the bedroom and pees into it, asking me to move her bicycle so she could have more space 20:32 S. calls me to read the Moomin book with her. I finish hanging the laundry and invite her to do it with me. She does... for 1 minute, then returns to the book 20:40 S. calls me to fix a torn sticker. I come and put some more stickers in places chosen by her, then wash the potty and put it back in its place 20:46 S. brings the book to the bathroom and goes to bathe. I put the dishes to soak, sweep rice from the kitchen floor and photograph S' drawing. 20:50 I join S. in the bath. We brush teeth while in the water 21:08 S. takes her book and walks straight to bed to play with the stickers 21:30 We turn off the light 21:40 S. gets up to pee and wants to play in the living room. We go back to bed. She jumps, sings and is very eager to talk in English - asks me to translate words and repeats them. 22:00 S. falls asleep while nursing. I get up to drink some tea and soak fruit, grains and seeds for the next day. I munch on sunflower and dates, light 3 candles and go to do some work on the computer. 22:15 S. wakes up, I take her to the toilette to pee. We lay down to breastfeed some more 22:50 S. is asleep again. I get up, put all her soft toys to machine-wash, then sit at the computer to continue with writing. 23:55 I drink the remains of my cold tea, then go to prepare a hot one again.
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