Last night, I kept coming up with "one more thing" I had to do today. Eventually, I got a file folder and gathered up all the necessary papers into it and made the following list on the front:
10am: B. library. Playroom with MOMS Club. Pick up book on hold, return books.
11am: Go to Peter's school.
11:40am: Go to R library. Drop off MOMS Club donation. Pick up DVD on hold.
12:15pm: Home for lunch.
1:30pm: Thursday playgroup.
2:30pm: Pick up CSA. Pick up Frontier order at R's house. R's #:xxx-xxx-xxxx
3:00pm: Drop off CSA half at SIL's house.
3:30pm: Home. Start dinner.
5:45pm: Dan home. Eat.
I also planned to go to the bank in there somewhere (I looked up the branch locations in each area). I had MOMS Club paperwork to give them, checks to deposit in two accounts, and needed to withdraw September's envelope cash.
In reality, we skipped playgroup but played in R's backyard for awhile and squeezed in the bank stop after dropping off the CSA half share. Leo was upset that he didn't get to see the giant excavator (seriously, it's so, so huge. The bucket is taller than me) working in our neighborhood because it was between blocks, but otherwise fine with the 50 miles we put on the car. I got to Peter's school with 10 minutes to spare and don't have any library holds about to expire. I successfully made Eggplant Parmesan for the first time (although Dan used the same recipe a couple weeks ago, so I wasn't too worried) for dinner, finishing late because we didn't get home until 5:20 ourselves. At least I started salting the eggplant before we left. Leo is eating way more than Peter right now. I'm a little scared of what this growth spurt might turn him into.
Peter's enjoying school, and if I would ever blog from our laptop, I'd give a better account with pictures. I'm slowly getting information out of him about what they do there. Dan drops him off in the morning and at lunchtime, we pick up from the front door, so it could be weeks before I see the inside of his classroom again. My SIL biked with me to pick him up yesterday (8.2 miles each way and she's got an extra 9 miles to reach my house) and now that I know I can hack it, I'm going to try to bike there 3ish times a week until it gets too cold. The temperature didn't go above 64 today so we're already getting a taste of fall. Eek. Driving there and back takes 45 minutes and I'm already tired of it. Biking took 48 minutes going there and we stopped at a park for lunch on the way home, so that eats up 2+ hours midday, but at least I get to move and there are lots of different parks along the way that the boys can check out.
We've all been exhausted. Dan's working until 5:30 most days and he can't get stuff done in the morning anymore because he has to drive with Peter. I'm wiped out because I got used to Dan being around more and Leo often wakes up with Peter before 7. The boys are out of it with the altered schedule. Oy. This first week should be the hardest, I hope.
