We met up with Liz and Sam today (or, Yiz and Sham) to enjoy a delicious frozen dairy product. Matthew ran around like a maniac and growled at Sham, while Lindsey ignored them, which is better than what she used to do, which was burst into tears and bawl. Baby steps.
And this is of her being cranky for no apparent reason. The trials and tribulations of a toddler.
…the real playing begins. It’s all fun and game til someone loses an eye.
Then it’s just fun.
Today:
7AM – wake up with hacking cough. Argh.
7:30AM – coax slacker kids from bed, and get them ready against their will for daycare and school. Serve breakfast. Urge children to eat. Threaten with removing marbles if one does not stop poking the other and vice versa.
8:00AM – hit the road for school and daycare!
8:10AM – curse (not-so-silently) under my breath at traffic management in Tallahassee (red light madness!).
8:25AM – drop Matthew off and hop on highway to bring Lindsey to Jessie’s.
8:45AM – arrive at Jessie’s to have girl clinging to me and being fussy. C’est la vie. Hang out for a few minutes and admire Baby Lemon.
9:00AM – leave and head to the bank.
9:30AM – (see above re: traffic management and Tallahassee)
9:45AM – buy more oil (for the mysterious leak in the car), buy more washer fluid at store. Forget to buy Josh cough drops.
10:15AM – finish pouring oil in car and fluid in tank and go home to drop Josh off at school (this is one sick dude!)
10:45AM – return home, check email, hop in shower and rush, rush, rush.
11:30AM – run to Jessie’s house to fetch Lindsey.
12:10PM – TRAFFIC URGH – meet with classmates for study session.
1:00PM – break for ice cream! Yay for ice cream socials!
2:00PM – stalk director of department for a signature, then head upstairs to work on a project with classmate.
3:15PM – head over to Williams to watch Josh get his award for teaching!
4:30PM – head home for a few minutes to get some refreshments and head out to dinner with the Bapus.
5:45PM – dinner with the Bapus
7:00PM – home again, bathtime for kiddos, stories and made-up songs by Matthew involving Popeye the Sailor Man, spinach, and Christmas presents.
8:00PM – watch an episode of The Corner
9:30PM – edit pictures and marvel at my life.
I am a busy person, and even though these kids take up time in my life I could use elsewhere to be a better student, photographer, writer, athlete (one day soon, I will rejoin the world of athletics), but I am the student and photographer I am because of these kids. They make me a better person.
This morning, after the obligatory childcare shuffle, I got my hair done at the Green Peridot in midtown. Devin made me look like a million bucks – at least until the humidity did me in on Landis Green during the ice cream social and I put my hair up.
Between classes, Lenese and I took a walk down to Chili’s to get some soup and we spotted chalkings that say “YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL” – this has to be my favorite campaign, ever.
Good days, good days.
The sick marches on. Josh is the last of our fearsome four to fall to the ill. Lindsey was diagnosed today with a double ear infection and the wheezing, always the wheezing. Sigh.
Some cuddles from the two sickest in the house now.
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