This day has totally gotten away from me. Aren’t some days like that? They just get a life of their own and you have to run after your own schedule yelling, “wait for me!”
(Not to mention I keep having to remind myself that it’s Tuesday.)
A sudden change of plans left me in charge of co-op preschool this morning. (Tuesday morning, today, not Monday, just in case you find yourself wondering!) Thankfully, I did have enough time to plan a good lesson, but I still felt a little scrambled since I thought my turn wasn’t for two more weeks. And I have nothing planned for Thursday yet.
This is not the only sudden change of plans I’m dealing with. Miss 8 was supposed to be performing in a third-grade Valentine’s skit for the moms last Wednesday. Then it was changed to Friday, then to Tuesday (that’s TODAY!) at 2:40. I have dealt with all of these changes. I rearranged carpool since I thought I’d be at the school around ending time today and I rearranged my piano student so I would have time to be back home.
Then the phone rang during preschool. It was a little voice from the school saying, “Mommy, it’s me.” After I clarified if it was Miss 8 or Miss 7 (I never hear their voices via phone and couldn’t tell the difference) I was informed that the skit has been changed to 1:40. Argh!! So I didn’t need to rearrange carpool or piano!
Now I will be stuck at the other end of town with one ridiculous random hour to fill. I don’t know what I’ll be doing yet. I need to brainstorm. Hmmm….
I don’t need to run to the store, I already did that last night. It is too rainy to find a park for the girls to play. Perhaps a Burger King play place may be in order?! Maybe I will take a book, order one thing for myself and let the girls run free.….It’s less dangerous than going toWal-mart where I might just stroll the aisles finding things to waste money on while the girls are stuck in the cart, bored out of their skulls….
Not super productive, but workable.
Yes, that just may be the plan. Especially since I will only have poor little Miss 2 and Miss 5 stuck with me during this spare, ill-fitting hour. I won’t have Tiny Baby because My Dear Husband is home sick today, so I am going to try to nap her at home with home while I’m gone.
So, it’s off to the school. For the Tuesday plan. Since it’s not Monday. Then enduring the wasted hour, after which I will race home, teach piano, make dinner, get all the girls homework done, and finally, go to book club.
I am sort of in charge at book club tonight, but not really. I am teamed up with an over- achiever friend, so I am just bringing a few ideas and a few odds and ends to supplement the overachiever’s fabulous plans. That is fine with me, because I’m doing the same book next week for my other book club. (At which time I will probably steal some of the over achiever’s ideas. ahem.)
Well, I suppose I’d better get back to my day. It’s time to put Tiny down for her nap and head off to the school with the other girls.
Wish me luck and I wish you the same with your own crazy day!
