So it is midnight and I am still awake. For some reason wide awake. It has been such a long day and I should be asleep, but I am not. After my normal routine of taking Katie and Jack to school and heading off to work with Maddie, the mad rush began.
I left work with Maddie and headed to the carpool line to get Katie and Jack. We had about 30 minutes at home until we headed off to swim lessons. Katie did her homework and Jack read his books and we were in the car again. We only have one more swim lesson until after the first of the year. I am very excited about this.
Watching the kids succeed at swimming is very exciting but I have been driving to the rec center and back for months. A break would be nice.
However, today there were no breaks in sight. We arrived home from swim lessons to eat and help Katie finish her homework and off to a "Make it and Take it Night" at the school. While the kids were in one of the classrooms watching a movie and reading books the parents were able to go to the cafeteria for a little fun.
In the cafeteria were little stations to make games to help your child study and learn and still have fun. For example there was a station with 5 or 6 pages of words. Words the kids have to know to leave the 1st grade. The words are used instead of the color block cards like in the game of Candyland. If the child can tell you the word on the card they can move forward. If they get a card with the word bang on it they lose a turn.
With these same word cards the kids pick the card out of a can if they can say it they can keep it. If they pull the word "bang" out they lose all their cards. There were a few other games you could make however, according to Maddie I had been gone long enough.
It the short time I had to myself I met some of the mom's in Katie's class, one of which works at the hospital we know only too well. But is was nice to have normal adult conversations. That is until I look up and see some stranger caring Maddie looking for which parent is going to claim her. Funny thing is I had just finished giving a small story about Maddie and her fight, when who should grace us with her presence.
The mom's were stunned at how good she looked. However, Maddie made it very difficult to enjoy my last few minutes before we needed to head home. So I cut my losses and grabbed Katie and Jack and went home. The best part about my day was that by 8:45 all three kids were passed out in their own beds.
It is too bad I didn't try to do the same. Maybe tomorrow I will try to gain control again.
TTFN~
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