PUNCTUALITY

Well, I tend to blog on the heel of feeling certain extremes....really good, really excited, really blah, or perhaps really horrible.  I am happy to report that today I am feeling pretty good!  I got in a whole hour long nap this afternoon, and I just had a 30 minute bath, AND the baby is still sleeping, so I have a quick little chance to blog before trying to go to bed ( She’s been out for 4 hours, so I’m sure the second I go to bed she’ll be up!)

Anyways, I’ve been doing pretty good lately with getting places on time with all three kids.  I do like to organize, and so that certainly helps with being punctual.  I always make a to do list the night before for the next day and if time could be crunched I make little notes like, “start getting kids ready at 8:00” for myself, and make sure I have my bag packed the night before OR a list of what I need to take.   I haven’t been attempting more than one social outing most days with the kids because it is QUITE the process, but today we had 2 places to get to in a timely fashion.

OUTING ONE: PLAY CLASS at a GYM TALE 9 AM:  FAIL!

So, the kids have their little gym play class on Tuesdays at 9 am.  I managed to get everyone up and dressed/fed/ready and out the door with 25 minutes until we needed to arrive in Barrhaven (which is only a 15 minute drive)  I was feeling pretty good about myself as I hustled the bundled up kids out the door into the icy cold.   However, upon getting them to the van, I could not get their doors open!  I tried both sides, and after a few good pulls decided to open my door and get the van running.  Maybe a few minutes of heat would do the trick.  In the meantime, I contined to yank on the doors.  Well, it was getting colder and I was getting crankier, so I started banging on the frame a bit with my hands trying to loosen them up.  Nothing.  So, then I took to kicking the door a bit.  OK. A LOT.  Poor Jesse and Janna are standing at the door just looking at me like, “what the heck.”  When my kicking failed ( I was SURE that was going to work)  I took to doing several  little running starts with a full body side check into the van doors to get them to open.  UGH!  My van is parked in the middle of a bunch of townhouses that the main windows look right out at my vehicle...and there I was with my 3 little ducklings staring at me while I BEAT my van door senseless.   I imagine my neighbors thought I had rage issues.

 I would feel better about this story if the door opened.  But it didn’t.  I ended up throwing the kids into the front seats and helping them climb into the back of the van.  And THEN I had to get Robyn’s huge carseat through the little middle aisle and clipped into her base.  SO HARD!  When I got into the van I realized the door would probably open easily from the inside, and felt a little more dumb.  But after buckling the kids in, I tried opening it from the inside, and that failed as well!  So, I resorted to more side checking.  That didn’t work, so I braced myself against Robyn’s seat and lifted my feet up onto either side of the door frame and pushed with all the might( and stance) of a laboring woman.  Cha Ching!  Success. 

Anyways, I was 15 minutes late for the class.  Next time I will have to take cold door malfunction potential into account. FAIL.

OUTING 2: Baby meet-n- greet at RCHS 3:10pm SUCCESS

Dave’s school put on a little meet and greet today for the staff to have a chance to meet Robyn.  I made it ON TIME!! Yay me. In fact, I was a few minutes early, and so they had Jesse page Dave on the intercom system, “ Daddy....where are you??  Daddy...where are you???” 

So, I thought this event would just entail maybe some  food in the staff room and people popping in and out  to meet the baby and say hi.  But, the “joy and sorrow” committee is made up of 2 younger female teachers this year (who- might I add- are pretty funny) and they decided they wanted the primarily male staff at Dave’s school to have to experience what women go through a million times... the typical  “baby shower.”  So!   There were pink balloon and streamer decorations up, and smell the chocolate in the diaper games among others,  and prizes, and yes, yummy sweets.  And it was all pretty funny, as the majority of the teachers are men.  Jesse, Janna and Robyn were well attended to and entertained by all the wonderful staff, and it was just a really relaxed, and enjoyable way to put in that last hour before Dave usually gets home.    

Anyways, as I finish writing this and anticipating going to bed, Robyn is of course now up... so I should attend to the little love.  Thanks for reading one and all. I’m out!