Well.
Jeff left this morning for Virginia, where he'll be all week.
I signed up for a field trip to an apple orchard a few weeks back. Then later I realized that this is the day we also have speech therapy and art. And an eye appointment for Aidan.
Cannot find opthamalogist's number. Cannot remember the doctor's name, or the name of the practice. Cannot find insurance forms with that information. Oh, well. They usually send a reminder and call, and they did not, so maybe I wrote it down wrong. I don't know when the heck his appointment *is*, though.
I realized just three or four days ago that the field trip is not in the morning, which I had thought, but instead is at the exact same time as speech. Made a decision to cancel speech for the day. They asked if Aidan was sick and I said yes. Why did I do that? It just came out of my mouth. Stupid.
Got up this morning and rescheduled speech. Morning went well, but we still got out the door late. I had trouble finding this place last year, so this year I was prepared. I had written directions, and a MapQuest map printed out. Get in the car, follow the map. All was fine, until we had to go north on Old Denton. There was road construction. A detour. Okay. Find my way out of the detour and back onto Old Denton. Which then ended. There is a new housing development there, and the built it in the middle of the road that used to go all the way through to the orchard.
Takes awhile to find my way around the development. Give up. Go get lunch. Go to ATM first, and discover that the bank is ... I don't know what the bank is doing. They just changed computer systems, and are telling us that our savings balance is zero. That's not possible, as it's a credit union and the shares are in savings. You can't have an active account there unless you have an active savings account. Which we do, with money in it. But the balance keeps coming up as zero. NOT GOOD. Where is my money, bank? Hmmm?
Get enough money for lunch, and go to lunch. Apparently the local schools are all on fall break, as there are teenagers everywhere, and adults telling me that I'd be glad when this week is over. Okay ... I will, but not for the reasons they think.
Get through lunch and down to art class on time. Note on door. Art class is not every other Monday, but the 2nd and 4th Mondays. Today is the first Monday. No art class.
Give up. Go home. Wish I could drink (I can't have a drink and be the one who has to care for the kids solo. It makes me really irritable). Maybe once they're all in bed asleep. :::::hysterical laughter:::::
Posted by Steph at October 6, 2003 04:09 PM((Steph)) I'm exhausted just reading about your day.
Posted by: Rebel on October 7, 2003 09:28 AMWho told you that you can't drink and parent?! Seriously. On my worst days, when everyone in the house was freaking out, even the plants and the pets, I used to soldier through but be a horrible person and collapse at the end of the day. Then I found out that a half shot of vodka in my juice at lunch would soothe away the anger, stress and desire to press the great delete button.
Now, this was only on my very worst days. The absolute worst. Maybe twice a month. And only half a shot - just enough to smoothe over the bumps. Basically mimics the effects of a good dark chocolate!
Isn't *that* admitting something in public! I drink to be a better parent! [big sheepish grin] Since I don't have toddlers anymore I never seem to need this... curious.
I hope today is much, much, much, much, much better!
Posted by: Sarah on October 7, 2003 11:49 AMHey! I know that Apple Orchard! We must be neighbors - I'm Amy, I live in Allen. Nice to meet ya!
Posted by: Amy on October 11, 2003 08:36 AMHi! Do you mind if I ask about your speech services? We're a homeschooling family from NH (my homeschool blog isn't live yet, but I posted the link to my personal blog for you to look at).. Anyhoo my youngest who is 4 1/2 has articulation issues. We were receiving speech services through the school system under an IEP plan, but I brought my dd home to homeschool with my eldest this year. The youngest will be 5 in december...so she'd still be in preschool now. Anyways..we have to pay out of pocket if we decide to continue with speech or put her back into public school to get free services. I was hoping maybe you had tips etc on books and other materials that could be useful to us in the home!
Thanks...and nice to meet you.. :)
Posted by: Nancie on October 13, 2003 08:15 AMoh btw..I so know where you were at with the apple picking..haha. Same thing happened when we went last week. We actually left (myself and another homeschooler family) the first orchard as it had a bus load of kids on a field trip.. got to the second orchard and there were 2 bus loads.. uggh. My friend and I just said.."we can't win!"...and went off into a quiet corner of the orchard to pick our apples..
Posted by: Nancie on October 13, 2003 08:16 AM