06:00 am: BZZZZZ (Alarm) Brush teeth. Take a shower. Take a shower. Turn on TV news channel.
06:10 am: Make coffee and cereal.
06:15 am: Eat cereal and drink coffee. If I'm lucky the children don't wake up and I have 15 minutes to read the paper.
06:30 am: Toss clothes in washer and get children up.
06:40 am: Still trying to get children up.
06:45 am: Drag children out of bed.
06:50 am: Fix breakfast for kids and prepare their school lunches.
07:10 am: Get dressed for work.
07:20 am: Make sure children are dressed for school, teeth brushed, shoes tied, and hair combed/brushed.
07:25 am: Put makeup on so I look presentable.
07:30 am: Makeup half on, shuffle kids out the door for school.
07:40 am: Drive to work.
8:15 am: Arrive at office. Lots of responsibility, salary only fair, but the work is interesting.
Noon, Most lunch hours I go to dentist or shop for the kid's necessities and phone my mother.
01:00 pm: Back to work until 5 p.m. or later.
05:00 pm: Go to day-care center and pick up children.
05:45 pm: Finally make it home. The traffic is terrible.
05:46 pm: Get mail and go through past-due bills.
05:50 pm: Start dinner, something affordable and quick, fight children off from cookie bar.
06:00 pm: Do breakfast dishes and set table.
06:30 pm: eat dinner.
07:00 pm: Make children do homework and take baths.
07:00 pm: Insist that children do homework and take baths. Clean table and do dishes.
08:00 pm: Help children finish homework.
08:30 pm: Sit down to watch TV. Referee fights between the kids. Answer question about sex. Explain why dad doesn't see them, why they can't have new clothes, and why they don't go skiing "like other kids."
09:00 pm: Do washing, ironing, mending, pay what I can on the bills, write stalling letters to keep creditors off my back.
10:00 pm: Go to bed.
06:00 am: BZZZZZ (Alarm) Another day.