Remember how excited I was that school was almost starting? Yeah, why didn’t someone remind me of the 50 million things to do, places to be, and meetings to attend. I completely blocked out a rather significant fact about the school year—we have about eleven hundred accompanying activities.
School starts in 2 days. I had my first meeting last night, the one for Girl Scout leaders. It brought everything back in stunning clarity. Free time? Right—the white spaces on my calendar are rapidly disappearing as activity schedules roll in.
- Kids’ Church Choir—twice a month
- Brownies—twice a month (being the leader did give me the opportunity to arrange the schedule so these two alternate)
- Soccer—twice a week
- PTO Meetings—once a month
- PTO committees—I begged off this year (maternity leave?)
- Brownie Leader Meetings—once a month
- Bible Study—once a week (this one’s for me!)
- Baby Doctor appointments—every two weeks for now; moves to weekly the last month (that doesn’t even account for the inevitable trips to the pediatrician now that everyone else’s germs will come home with my kid)
That works out to about 5 things each week. How ever did I manage to forget about that? For the foreseeable future my meeting notebook will be permanently grafted to my arm, my chauffer’s cap shall not be removed, and my bottom will be firmly planted in the doctor’s office waiting room. What idiot coined the term stay-at-home mom?
Bwahahaha, now you see why I treasure summer so much. Welcome back to the light…
*sticks fingers in ears* Lalalala, I can’t hear you!
My own “starting school” story got perverted, ala Carnival of the Infantile