My latest IN HER SHOES featured lady is a jane of all trades.

She can tackle and document amazing DIY projects like her stenciled office walls:

She designs pretty art prints and stationary.

{How cute would this print be in a playroom?}

She does all that along with being a blogger and a mother to 4 lovely kids! I don’t know how she does it all!

Take a peek into Emily from Jones Design Company typical day.

My morning begins around 7:15. No need for an alarm clock around here … I have four little ones who never let me down. The boys {7, 5, 3} play legos in the playroom for a few minutes while I s.l.o.w.l.y wake and feed the baby her morning bottle.

By 8:00 the kids are ‘starving’ so we hang out with our favorite curious monkey and eat cereal.

A glass of orange juice is my equivalent of coffee {I know, how sacrilegious for a Seattle girl}. We take my first grader off to the bus, the little boys move on to Jake & the Neverland Pirates and baby girl helps me check email.

Around 9:00 it is time to get dressed. My kids aren’t picky about what they wear {yet!} which makes morning dressing pretty easy.

On this particular day we have a play group to go to at my friend Rae’s house. Muffins, coffee, friends … what could be better?

One quick stop at Target {and of course a walk through the Lego aisle}

and another at the hardware store to pick out some paint

and we’ve officially hit ‘melt down’!

By 1:00 we’re home for a quick lunch then straight to bed for the little ones and quiet time for No.2. Which means work time for mommy.

At 3:30 it’s pick-up at the bus stop, then time to check the mail {one of my favorite things is getting mail!}

Our afternoon consists of snacks, coloring, legos and if its nice, we’ll head to the neighborhood park. Today is not particularly nice, so we draw instead.

At 5:00 I have a date with Nate as I make dinner {tonight: fish tacos}

Dinner is a whirlwind of little people dropping food and the silliest highs & lows, but we love eating together as a family and try to make it a priority. After dinner, we have some time to play then pop the kids in the bath.

By 7:30 its bedtime for baby girl

and book time for the boys {The Hardy Boys are a new fave around here}.

Once our babies are all tucked in, its back to work {this time doing some designs with my fancy new pen tablet}

While I work, I snack on healthy things like chocolate chip cookies and listen to one very wise pastor and teacher. Most of the time Ryan sits across from me in the office and works on his computer {what dorks we are}. But it allows us to hang out and check things off our lists at the same time {again, what dorks we are}.

A few hours of designing, packaging art prints, writing blog posts and emailing, I call it quits and head to bed {ahh, how I love our bed}.

And there it is … a day in the life of this busy, but grateful, mama.

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A big thank you to Emily for sharing her day with us! If you are new to IN HER SHOES make sure you stick around and catch with some of other favorite ladies from the blog/design world.