A day in your life…recap.
Yesterday was a fairly representative reflection of a typical day for me.
I woke up at 5:30. Hit the snooze alarm 3 times to get up at just before 6 a.m.
Hopped in shower. By 6:15, all three children were awake.
Made my daughter lunch for school, put her uniform out so she could dress herself (a new phenomenon. She can dress herself every other day, but on school days, she becomes completely incapable of the most basic functions).
Made all three children breakfast. Just before I was about to leave for work, the children starting fighting over I’m not even sure what. Sofia stormed into the bathroom (where I was attempting to curl my hair) and slammed the pocket door HARD on her finger. Hysterics ensued.
She was crying pretty hard, so I knew that it hurt. I promptly got her an ice pack and set her up watching The Brady Bunch in my bed (next to my half asleep husband) and left for work. I had many pangs of guilt as I left, questioning whether I should take her to the doctor…
Once I arrive at work at 7:30 a.m., was caught up in the drama of the workplace that is a Unified School District Office in California. Budget cuts are no the horizon and it’s about to get ‘really real‘ down in the ole DO. Every man for himself…
The School Board is being wanting to not shoulder all of the public discord for these decisions, so has asked all department heads and Administrators to give a list of reductions, based on a dollar amount given to them. These decisions are based on existing monies and projections, so every department head and Administrator wants to meet with the person who creates the budget, my boss (who is already cranky from having a 2 week old baby and post partum wife at home).
By 9 a.m., I had worked with the Director of Personnel’s Assistant and scheduled about 6 or 7 meetings for him over the course of the next few days. By 10 a.m., I was ready for a break.
I spent the rest of the day playing catch up, writing letters to successful and unsuccessful bidders on an RFP we sent out recently (request for proposal), did some accounting work and tried to stay out of the drama that is always lingering in this place.
As my son Will had his first speech evaluation in the afternoon, I left at 12:30 p.m. to pick him up and take him to the appointment.
The appointment didn’t go so well. Will clammed up, gave one word answers, shrugged and nodded. A lot. I suspected that this would be a challenge as his stutter only comes out when he’s engaged in conversation. He can take a loooooooooong time to warm up to people and he wasn’t exactly warming up to the ST. In fact, at one point, she asked “What is your favorite food?” and his answer was “I don’t want to talk about that anymore.” Alrighty then!
I did show the ST a video so she could see I wasn’t completely crazy. She asked if I had more videos, I told her yes. Oh yes. Many. I have been videotaping him over the past month as I suspected it would come to this.
In the middle of the speech appointment, my phone rings. I would normally ignore it, but recognizing it as local, I excuse myself from the room. Will looks panic stricken that I am leaving him, as I promised I would not.
Well, it’s Sofia’s school. The Secretary is telling me that Sofia’s finger is really swollen and black and blue. Ugh. They recommend I have it “looked at.” MOTHER OF THE YEAR MOMENT.
After the speech appointment, I call Sofia’s primary care physician, but the “advice nurse” doesn’t recommend me coming in. Still, with her school suggesting she be seen, I decided I would take her in just because.
Of course, once I see Sofia and that, despite the appearance of her finger, she is perfectly fine, I wonder why I am driving 45 minutes to San Francisco to have them tell me that she’s fine.
We go. They tell me she is probably fine. Beautiful. They can do an xray, but would want to wait for the swelling to go down.
Lovely. By this time, Sofia is back to teasing, accosting and just generally messing with her brothers in the car, so yeahhhhhhhhhhhh. Such a waste of gas and a co-pay.
We arrive home around 6 p.m. and everyone is starving. I make dinner, and then get them in the bath. They are in bed around 8:30-9, which is on the late side for them.
Once they are in bed, I start working on my videos of Will’s speech to send to the ST. I create a video montage of him stuttering that takes hours to upload to Youtube due to my JACKED up network connection.
I watch 2 episodes of Alcatraz (love it) while uploading and finally go to bed around 2 a.m., knowing that I will have about 4 hours sleep.
And now…I am in desperate need of a nap!!
Seriously don’t know how you do it all. Hope the finger is OK. We watched our first Alcatraz last night and enjoyed it as well. Only thing is I will be pissed if it turns out they were all in purgatory all along.
Dare I ask where was the Hubster during the day? You are a great mom busting your a$$. Do not beat yourself up.
That pretty much sums up what my day would have been like if that was my family. It sucks to be the Mom sometimes. :::sigh:::
Yeah, exactly what was your husband doing during this day?? WTF?