Here’s day one! Yesterday was a full day. I started with dropping Nathaniel off and going to David’s school for my regular Thursday volunteer spot. On Thursday mornings, two other parents and I discuss books with 11 3rd and 4th graders. We arrived early and were able to check out the Book Fair for a few minutes and David went to class and I went to reroute the Lit Club kids (we usually meet at the library but it was closed due to Book Fair.) This week’s meeting was our final one for Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy. After the discussion, they went back to class and the three of us walked to the library to do the notes we leave for each kid in their binder. That plus discussing the next two weeks took up most of the time I had left before I was scheduled to work at the Book Fair. I then moved on to learn how to use the cash register and spent the next three hours working there. When I finally left David’s school, I feverishly checked all my email and drove back home in time for a meeting. Two meetings later, I picked up Nathaniel and then rushed back home for another meeting. I had a hair appointment after that so I asked Jake to pick up David and left.
I won’t bore you with the details but the next hour was a mad insane rush of trying to see if Jake could make it to the shuttle stop before David got there (spoiler alert: he didn’t!) and finding another parent who was there so she could hang on to David until Jake could get there. All of this remotely while I was getting my hair done. Fun times. Once David was safely home, I dialed into my final meeting of the day (from the hairdresser no less) and made it back home around 9pm where I pretty much went right to bed. Don’t you feel tired just reading that?
Alas, I decided to make my first day about the morning at school since it was all about volunteering with my kids and how much it means to me. I had more than one photo so I made a little flap and put the Book Fair photo first.
When you open it, you can see the second photo with the two other parents sitting on the floor with me and adding post-its to each kid’s binder. And I wrote my journaling on the other side.
and that’s it for day one! 🙂 Here’s to hoping Day Two is considerably less crazy.
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