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I swear I'm in slow motion lately. In fact, I'm so slow that I feel like I'm in reverse. Normally all my Christmas decorations are down in one day. It's been 4 days now and the tree in the basement is still up. The furniture in the living room hasn't been moved back to it's normal position and there are still some Christmas gifts without a home.
The boys first day back to school from break was yesterday. I'm having a hard time getting back into the swing of the children's schedule again too. Today was Math Club for Older Boy. That means that we have to leave for school 45 minutes earlier than usual. Usually Hubs takes Older Boy to math club and then I drop the Little Man off at the normal time. Somehow today we got our wires crossed and Hubs couldn't drive for math club and I missed the memo. So as soon as he left I panicked, did a Chinese fire drill with the kids to get out the door, and got them to school 5 minutes late for math club (which is no big deal). 20 minutes after I got home from drop off, the phone rang and the caller I.D. said that it was the school. My heart always starts racing when the school is on the caller I.D. I'm sure that happens to all allergy parents. My first thought is that the Little Man had some sort of reaction. When I answered I heard a little voice on the other end say "Mom, it's me. You forgot to pack my lunch". And sure enough there it was right in front of me on the counter. The irony is, that on the way to school I told the kids that because we raced out the door this morning in such a frenzy that it was a crap shoot if lunches and snack made it into back packs. I was sort of kidding, but there must have been something in the back of my mind that said "You dropped the ball". If Older Boy didn't have a lunch he would have just gotten the hot lunch at school. But the Little Man has too many allergies to eat anything from the hot lunch menu. So back to school I went.
I guess my New Year's goal of "better organization" has gotten off to a slow start too. I hope I can find a way to get myself into "drive" instead of "neutral". Tomorrow is another day.
4 comments:
Oh yes, I so remember having some of those days when my boys were in school! I had to get myself one of those big magnetic calendar boards to put on the front of my fridge and write in the schedules for school and sports. I would have been lost without it since my mind wasn't always in working order! lol Hey, it's still very early in the new year so you have time to get more organized yet! hehe xoxo
It always takes a while to get back into the swing of hings after he holidays. Hopefully next week will be better.
Don't be too hard on yourself! I'm finding "back to school" a bit challenging right now too! And I haven't even STARTED to take down Xmas decorations (not to mention the pile of Xmas and birthday presents still sitting on the dining room table).
It'll all get done...at some point! :-) Have a good day!
We still have gifts to go to their proper homes.
So mom drops the ball. It's actually fine for the kids to see that you are human. Don't sweat it. Lunch was delivered and all is well.
The world won't fall apart because some Christmas stuff is still up. Just say that you are keeping it up for Epiphany. That's tomorrow, so you have time!
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