It's like, I love summer so much you guys. And also? Summer is WILD. WIIIIILD. Every second of every day is absolutely spoken for (but I do have time for a Big Love rewatch here and there).
Something that at least makes me feel like I have no time is that we go to swim lessons and then just.. stay at the pool. So I have to all the other non-pool parts of my life in like 3 hours a day. And sometimes we go back to the pool for Minnie's water ballet practice and stay until close.
So I mean. Maybe my real problem is a time management one?
Typical day:
5am-7am: Watch Big Love and work on various things
7am-8:15am: Exercise (run, weights, yoga)
8:15-11: Pack lunches and snacks for pool and activities, make sure Dorothy and Cooper are ready for their days, house tidy and laundry maintenance, emails and classwork as needed. Get Dorothy and Cooper to the pool for dive team
11:00: Ready Minnie for swim lessons, gather giant bag of towels and snacks and books and sunscreen plus Dorothy''s dance lunch and bag and drop Minnie at the pool with Cooper. Pick up Dorothy and take her dance a little early (she gets ready at the pool post-diving and eats lunch in the car). Race back to the pool to catch the end of Minnie's lesson. Cooper is relieved from babysitting duty and bikes home to get ready for afternoon diving on campus.
12-3-ish: POOOOOOL (I often work in the shade here). We also have to pick Dorothy up between 1-3 depending on the day. Usually a boy is around to help, or Minnie and I will leave our stuff and go get her and come back.
3-4:30: Laundry and house work blitz
4:30-5:45: Pick up Cooper and friend from diving and take friend home
5:45-7-ish: Dinner and clean up
7-8:45 POOOOOOOOL
8:45-10:30: Make sure Dorothy, Cooper and Minnie are in bed (really, Minnie should be in bed before 8, but what are you gonna do?) and collapse.
Sometimes there's water ballet. Sometimes Dorothy brings friends to the pool after dance or goes to their pools. Sometimes I have meetings. Sometimes Coper has a private dive lesson at our pool with another coach. But the basic structure of the day stays the same.
For like 3 more weeks-- then diving is over! Til fall! When I will be the onl driver home 3 days a week and we will have kids at 3 different schoooooools.
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This post makes me grateful that our week days in the summer are nearly identical, schedule-wise, to week days in the summer. The boys are in full-time child care and the parents are working full time. Phil does sometimes feel like our kids are getting the shaft since they are on a schedule all year, but they go to fun camps. This week they go on 3 different field trips! So I don't think they are really missing out. Phil's parents were both teachers but it was a free-range stage of life so he was cut loose to hang out with friends in his suburban area and was out and about for most of the day, fairly unaccounted for. That is not the kind of life the kids would have if one of us was home with them... I fill their weekends with fun activities and am oh so happy to hand them back to competent childcare providers on Monday morning.
ReplyDeleteEeks, 3 different schools as the only drive come fall sounds ROUGH. Our kids will be in the same school for the next 3 years so we are enjoying this streamlined drop off stage of life. Although I do think Paul will take the bus once he starts middle school, or he will bike there as it's less than a mile away.