Tuesday, August 03, 2010

just another manic monday????

Sooo....here it is the beginning of August--and I created this thing in MARCH???!!!  Welcome to my world of inconsistencies! HA!  But i'm bound and determined to change that.  we'll see.

Anywhoaways, so here it is months later and one case of shingles conquered, another school year completed, and an entire summer ending too quickly. 

Why just today, i had to be up at 6 a.m. so that I could have my youngest, Rebeka, at the school for cross country track practice by 7am and then pick up my husband from the Toyota place where we left our van for some repairs that were bound to deplete several categories of our budget!!!  I thought I would have time to go back home and eat breakfast while Keith drove back to the school to pick up Rebeka.  I thought.

Hannah, who went to bed at 5:30 p.m. last night with a headache, failed to check the calendar and, therefore, has no concept of any one else's schedule and times other than her own. 

So, as Keith leaves at 7:55a.m. to pick up Rebeka, Hannah flies down the stairs in a panic: "MOM!!  We have to be at school at 8:15!!!" 

"No, Hannah.  We don't have to be there until 8:30...look at the email from the PTO Manager..." 

"NOOOO!!!!  Student Council HAS to be there at 8:15!!" 

This is quickly followed up by a phone call to her dad informing him of the dire situation.  He, in confusion, turns around while calling me for Plan B. 

With only one vehicle, we realize everyone's schedule is going to clash....He arranges to have his racquetball buddy meet up with him at the school so that he can leave the truck there for us to get home after doing "registration" duty. 

He drops us off at the high school into total mayhem.  Though registration is not to begin until 9a.m., somehow the schedules are already being handed out, and the lines that have been formed for parking passes since 5:30 a.m. are in total disarray.  You get the picture...

By 9:30 a.m. the dust has settled and textbooks are finding homes in all the Juniors lockers...by noon we climb back into the truck to head home.  We are relieved to discover hubby will go pick up the van, so we have time to eat lunch, start laundry, run errands, and drop rebeka off to visit with a friend for an hour or so.  We return with plenty of time left to go to a 3:45 chiropractic appointment, but hubby is still not home.  The phone call reveals that he is at the third auto repair store looking for a hose long enough to refill the freon in the van...he loves cutting time close. 

We do make the chiropractic appointment on time, but we are late getting rebeka to violin lessons.  We call Hannah, tell her to pick up rebeka and take her to the lessons.  We have to meet them there because I have the month's tuition check and lesson book--you wouldn't think there'd be traffic jams in a "small" suburban town...HA!  We arrive, pass off the materials, and get ready to head back home (thinking Hannah is going to wait the 1/2 hour for her) only to discover Hannah is GONE!  Another phone call reveals that she thought she was just dropping her off....okay, no biggie.  Panera is right around the corner, and the weather was calling for a smoothie. 

Five minutes before rebeka's lesson is finished, Hannah calls.  She is supposed to have blank cd's for her lesson, which she doesn't have.  Target is right there, so we make a mad rush through Target before picking up Rebeka and heading (finally) back home.

Now I have only a half hour to whip up dinner with the turkey meat that I failed to find a recipe for...i decide on tacos, and in a half hour we were eating before rushing out the door to Hannah's lessons.  Lesson finished, we begin to head home...but the sunset is in its fullness and we are just moments away from a bridge that really shows off the sunset against the backdrop of our middle tennessee hills.  We head in the opposite direction of the house and slowly drive across the bridge basking in the fullness of dusk. 

It was at that moment that I thought, "I need to write about this.."

So here I am, actually writing (typing?)!....while the rest of my family sits engrossed by "Clash of the Titans" in full surround sound that can be heard at least two subdivisions down....

Tomorrow, Rebeka and I wrestle with Sophomore registration while Hannah heads south for a 7a babysitting appointment...Keith, who is on vacation, is stuck at home because he lost the dibs to either vehicle...

these are the only two appointments listed on the calendar...but, then again, there wasn't much on today's calendar either.

The strange thing is...I love the way my family is!  Just another reminder that, indeed, my cup runneth over...

...di.

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