Wednesday, February 18, 2026

now it's THURSDAYS that suck?

I have sworn off food crafts (FOR THE MOST PART), but I absolutely WILL NOT stop trying the hair crafts.
Every time I turn this corner on the path around the kids' school and see the sun coming up in front of me, I feel so HAPPY to be out running.
Trader Joe's $3 sheet masks are still my favorite ones in the world.
This is the much more orderly mic drawer in my other lecture hall, and I don't like it as much as the messy one, even though I am reliably loud enough thanks to its maintenance. 
HOW DID MINNIE GET THIS BIG???
YOU GUYS. I keep solving for problems, and then MOAR problems pop up. Like, I fixed Tuesdays by giving myself a buffer day between teaching days this semester. Then I realized that Wednesdays were THE LITERAL FREAKING WORST, so I started wearing clothes I love and treating myself to coffee (but not full caf because I did not need any more anxiety) and all the other excellent Wednesday reset ideas and now? I am just crabby and off my game on Thursday nights.

I think I am solving for the effects of a problem instead of the causes. SO. I am joining the YMCA so we can get priority registration for on-site after care next year. Minnie will likely be on the dance team (IT IS GOING TO BE SO CUTE YOU GUYS), so she will likely only go to care a couple hours a week (for six HUNDRED dollars a month), but I think those hours? WILL BE FREAKING AMAZING. Just to be able to stay 90 minutes or so later at work when Ben is OOT will be a game changer. 

Reminder: her school dismisses at TWO THIRTY Tues-Fri and at ONE TEN on Mondays. If she could just stay there until 3:30, that would be wildly helpful. After care is done by 6, so it won't help me on my late Monday-- but hopefully Ben will be able to be the pick up guy that day.

Because the PROBLEM is that I do not have time to do all of the stuff I need to do, and all the tea in bed and new release books and atleisure in the world will not change this. A few extra hours of childcare? Will.

(Leggings as pants, though, makes A LOT of things better)


Also I am going to institute a LEAVE ME THE EFF ALONE rule on Thursday nights lasting fro the minute Ben gets home until the last child goes to bed-- I think this will help too.

 

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  1. mbmom116:17 AM

    Does Minnie have a friend she could go home with on Mondays? It would be a playdate for her and breathing room for you. Sometimes the school's act as if everyone has a stay at hone oarent is grandma still.
    I am not a big fan of early dismissals/ late starts once a week. My teens start 2 hours late on Wednesday, and they have the fun of putting their sister on the bus- which has been coming 15 minutes late! Finally told them to pop her in the car with them and text me so I can let the bus know.
    the braids are so cute!

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    1. mbmom116:21 AM

      Stay at home parent or grandma still. Aurocorrect fails me again.

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  2. Nicole6:42 AM

    Two thirty - that is a very early dismissal!!!

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  3. Bibliomama7:06 AM

    Way to go at whack-a-moling all your problems. Brilliant solution. How does anyone who isn't a stay-at-home parent deal with that school schedule?

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  4. Ernie7:59 AM

    That school schedule is bananas. Leggings as pants is so great and you are rocking it. I'll only do leggings if it isn't freezing out and right now my Lulu leggings are MIA while we're enjoying this unexpected warm up. Grrr. I am team LEAVE ME THE EF ALONE. If I close the door to the study, to send that message, I overheat in a matter of minutes because that room is right over the furnace.

    The hair craft is super cute. I'd fail at that.

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