The Big Yellow Bus

Today was my biggest day (if you look at all the scribbles on my daytimer) of things that needed to get done. I'll just do a brain dump in point form:

8:00am take Sophie to Kindergarten. She's loving it and I'm really impressed with her school (teachers, administration, classroom, kids, parents).

8:35am do a presentation for our Commercial department on some employee data. All went well

9:00 - 10:40am work stuff

10:45 drive to Sophie's school. Advise her teacher that today would be the first day that she rode the bus. Feel a bit weird that my 5 year old is taking a school bus, but heck, necessity is the mother of invention. Teacher introduces me to vice-principal who will escort Sophie and any other Kindergarten kids who need the bus.

11:00 am go back to my car and wait for the bus (arrives a couple of minutes later) and watch Sophie climb aboard bus with her little friend Hunter and the other kids. Yippee!!

11:10 follow behind bus (another dad does the exact same thing) and park at the daycare to see that she safely gets off bus at the stop across from the daycare. Daycare teacher greets her off the bus and walks her and other kids across the street. Give her a big hug! Huge, crazy milestone.

11:30 back to work and a Webinar I'm supposed to be attending.

12:00pm lunch at my desk.

12:30pm - 2:45pm work stuff

2:45pm - pick up Sophie from daycare and take her to her first ballet class of the season. Most of her old ballet buddies are back. She is very happy and has a great time.

3:30pm take her back to daycare and go back to work

5:00pm go to the gym

6:00pm eat dinner and shower. Vic had dinner prepared - yum, yum.

7:00pm take Sophie and Fynn with me to a Canadian Parents for French meeting. I'm the secretary and take minutes.

8:00pm back home, give kids bath, bedtime stories, snack and bed

9:00pm laundry

9:15pm call my mom and confirm that her and my dad can meet us the day before our NYC trip in October to transition the kids.

9:30pm Vic and I get to relax and get ready for Leno.

Okay, that's enough brain dumping for the day.

I found these quotes that I think are nice to reflect upon (especially for crazy days like today):

We women who do too much usually don't do too much in just one area of our lives.

When we are caregivers, it often is not the physical work that is so exhausting. It is the emotional work that we do every second as we strain to be presented to another's process.

We may feel like we don't have another ounce left to give. Yet our inner process never gives us more than we can handle. We may not like handling it, and we can handle it. It is when we refuse to handle our lives that they lock up on us