Monday - unbalanced

Players:
A- 2 1/2 year old baby girl
H- Husband, sick with flu
C- 7 year old daughter

8:00 Woke up, peeked at clock, wanted to get up, but A still nursing. Drifted back to sleep.
8:20 Needed to pee, told A, sneaked away
8:21 A screaming and crying while I peed. H couldn't soothe her. She only wants me in the morning.
8:22 Back in bed to comfort A.
8:30 Shower
8:50 On computer to print out shipping labels for an order that I couldn't get payment processed for last night. Hoping to find she has paid via the invoice I sent and also that I won't get side-tracked.
9:15 Got side-tracked by a few things but got the payment and another order. All packed up and ready to go.
9:16 Wake A and got her dressed. H works from home on Mondays, which is just as well because he's so sick, and C, unfortunately, winds up watching TV. That makes me feel so guilty. We just gave our big old table top TV away and bought a very small flat-screen on incredible Black Friday sale so we can hang it on the wall. Only H has found an excellent deal - just a bit more money and the screen is 3 inches bigger and much better resolution. (Last night, at the playground, he was still trying to convince me to go with this TV. He said to me, while pushing the swing, "It's 3 inches bigger and better quality", then we both paused and cracked up. We wonder what the mom pushing the next swing must have thought he was proposing.) So anyway, my plan is to get the TV wall mounted so she can't watch it at will. Only we are in limbo while he tries to get the store to honor their deal: after he ordered, they said they were out but they have it listed at full price again. I say it's the universe saying to let it go but he really wants that extra 3 inches and better quality! I don't want such a good TV! Actually, I don't want any TV, but he's not ready for that.
9:30 Off to Starbuck's for a quick breakfast with A. Normally, I'd have something at home, but my espresso machine is there because it hasn't been working well, and actually, I am looking forward to a few peaceful minutes "to myself". Well, close enough.
10:00 Stop by post office to drop off packages. All my packages that are over a pound must be delivered in person during business hours. What a pain that can be with kids in tow, especially if one is asleep.
10:15 Arrive at the mom & me class I'm doing with A. She enjoys it very much, even though she doesn't participate in much. I see she is happy playing on her own and she comes over for the stuff that interests her, or she pauses to watch and listen during certain songs.
12:00 Driving home, I get a call from a customer. I have my home phone forward to my cell phone so I don't miss sales. I wind up talking to her for a while and am stuck in my car; I can't really pack A up and our stuff and get her on my back while I'm on the phone. She is driving me a bit nutty but she loves playing with everything.
12:10 Upstairs to be met by starving TV watching C. H is sacked out in the bed. So glad he was working from home!
12:15 Try to be brief on the computer. I am supposed to call this customer back with answers.
12:20 Try to start lunch for me and the girls.
12:21 Phone rings, it's a customer. I answer lots of questions and take an order over the phone.
12:40 Try to start lunch for me and the girls.
12:41 Phone rings again. I forget who it was.
1:00 Try to have a quick look at the issues I was supposed to address for the first customer while A is on my lap nursing because she hasn't had lunch yet. C is starving.
1:10 Poke around the kitchen. The sink is filled but the dishwasher needs unloading. The groceries haven't arrived yet. It's really slim pickings.
1:15 The groceries arrive!
1:20 Am putting groceries away but the phone rings again.
1:30 Am back at the computer, try to follow up again with the first customer. C is starving.
1:40 Unload dishwasher.
1:42 Phone.
1:55 Finish unloading dishwasher, load it up. Am absolutely starving. Slap together some sandwiches. C wants ketchup on hers. Gross. A just seems to want ketchup. Disgusting. Make self a salad. Offer some to H who is up now, back working, but he doesn't want it. He's nibbled a bit of fruit. Perfect, really.
2:30 Try to get A down for a nap. C wants to go to the pool. I can't take her; A has to nap. Feeling so guilty. C hasn't been out all day. H says he'll take her "soon".
3:30 Finally get A to sleep, sneak away to follow up with first customer, make a bit of headway, hear A crying, back to bed I go.
4:00 Ask H if he'll take C to the pool. He has been taking her to the pool or park on Mondays during his lunch break. He says he has stuff he has to finish up today before end of business.
5:00 H takes C to the pool. It will only be light another 30 minutes and she'll freeze. I wish they'd just go to the park. But the pool is a shorter walk and he does feel like crap so it's his call.
6:00 Time to wake A up. She napped too late, so will be up too late, that cycle continues. Must somehow move it all earlier. Thought going out in the mornings was going to solve this but no joy yet. She's not too thrilled with me.
6:10 I try to start dinner but A is clingy and crying and loud and H is napping again, poor thing. Back to computer to make some headway with that customer's issues.
7:00 Finally A will let me go and I can work on dinner. Feeling uninspired and just make pasta. Feel guilty because it's not very healthy.
7:30 Customer calls me back and I try to work through issues. She wants me to examine a certain baby carrier and check the craftwomanship. Looks good!
8:00 We have dinner. H and I watch a bit of a movie together but I feel my work piling up and I slip away to try to catch up.
9:00 Try to process her credit card but it won't process for anything. I send her an explanation and invoice and promise myself I'll get it done in the morning even though I am not working in the mornings anymore because that is the time to have the kids out of the house so they will get fresh air, exercise, and be fit and strong and go to bed early so they can wake up early and go outside to play.
10:30 Time to start getting ready for bed. Luckily the girls are fine when we initiate and A is now letting us brush her teeth and C has done her own for years.
10:50 All in bed, lights out.