Back to School
Today was the kids' first day back to school after the winter break. Originally Bo was supposed to be back yesterday so today would have been nothing to write about. However, this is not the case.
Because I go to work before the kids go to school and get off work after they are done I had to figure out some sort of plan to make it all work. It started this morning by having them get up after I took my shower and running them one at a time through the shower themselves. This is not a good plan and I will be having them shower tonight so that they will just have to get up and get ready in the morning for the next two days.
Despite how it may appear everything went well this morning and even though I had to get the kids out the door with me and drop them off at my grandmas on the way to work I got to work only a little late.
The kids then walked from my grandma's house to school. Sadly they had to do so the first day in the rain. I hear it's supposed to be in the teens by the weekend. I hope not. -_-
Work sucked in that I was still tired. I had the window open and the heaters off making it really cold so I could attempt to stay awake easier. I was certain that all I would do when I got home was sleep. Naturally things never go as planned.
After work I had pick up my kids from my grandma's house (they walked there from school). Their job was to put away grandma's Christmas stuff like her tree and lights. That took some time getting the storage containers out of the garage, taking all the stuff down and putting it all back in the garage. Let's just say the garage is a death trap. One of these days I will get a good picture and prove this.
After putting the Christmas stuff away I was going to head home. As I was getting the kids out the door grandma asked if I wanted to get some Subway for dinner. I was all for free food (as I hardly have enough to make any meal in my own house). Grandma didn't want to pay for my daughter's friend though. So I left my son to watch my nephew (also at grandma's house) and took my daughter and her friend home to my house (so my daughter should play hack//GU to show her friend). I then took grandma to Subway.
We got back to grandma's around 6pm and ate our sandwiches while watching Ice Age II at Kaleb's insistence. My son and I finished our sandwiches and decided it was time to leave since my daughter still hadn't eaten. I thanked my grandma for dinner and we headed home.
Back at home I found that my daughters' friend had left already (her mom picked her up). I gave my daughter her sandwich and watched her play hack//GU for a while.
Currently I am sitting in my office aching. My back aches, my head aches, my legs ache, my feet ache and my shoulders ache. I haven't had any way to relieve my stress. I don't think it helps much that my house isn't looking great because I have no time to clean it (and getting my kids to is a chore). It also doesn't help that the garbage around here hasn't been picked up in what looks like a week and it's awful (the main garbage containers outside I mean). This means I can't throw my stuff away because there is no space left in the bins. To make matters worse it's near my place so it makes my place look trashy. Ugh.
Actually I don't know whether to say that things have been going well or that they have been awful. Sometimes I want to just break down because I hate doing all this alone. Strangely when I start to write out my journals though, everything seems to be fine and I never write about the downside of things.
All in all I guess I am handling is well. For instance my kids are asleep already but that also means that my daughter still hasn't done the dishes. -_- Oh well.
Because I go to work before the kids go to school and get off work after they are done I had to figure out some sort of plan to make it all work. It started this morning by having them get up after I took my shower and running them one at a time through the shower themselves. This is not a good plan and I will be having them shower tonight so that they will just have to get up and get ready in the morning for the next two days.
Despite how it may appear everything went well this morning and even though I had to get the kids out the door with me and drop them off at my grandmas on the way to work I got to work only a little late.
The kids then walked from my grandma's house to school. Sadly they had to do so the first day in the rain. I hear it's supposed to be in the teens by the weekend. I hope not. -_-
Work sucked in that I was still tired. I had the window open and the heaters off making it really cold so I could attempt to stay awake easier. I was certain that all I would do when I got home was sleep. Naturally things never go as planned.
After work I had pick up my kids from my grandma's house (they walked there from school). Their job was to put away grandma's Christmas stuff like her tree and lights. That took some time getting the storage containers out of the garage, taking all the stuff down and putting it all back in the garage. Let's just say the garage is a death trap. One of these days I will get a good picture and prove this.
After putting the Christmas stuff away I was going to head home. As I was getting the kids out the door grandma asked if I wanted to get some Subway for dinner. I was all for free food (as I hardly have enough to make any meal in my own house). Grandma didn't want to pay for my daughter's friend though. So I left my son to watch my nephew (also at grandma's house) and took my daughter and her friend home to my house (so my daughter should play hack//GU to show her friend). I then took grandma to Subway.
We got back to grandma's around 6pm and ate our sandwiches while watching Ice Age II at Kaleb's insistence. My son and I finished our sandwiches and decided it was time to leave since my daughter still hadn't eaten. I thanked my grandma for dinner and we headed home.
Back at home I found that my daughters' friend had left already (her mom picked her up). I gave my daughter her sandwich and watched her play hack//GU for a while.
Currently I am sitting in my office aching. My back aches, my head aches, my legs ache, my feet ache and my shoulders ache. I haven't had any way to relieve my stress. I don't think it helps much that my house isn't looking great because I have no time to clean it (and getting my kids to is a chore). It also doesn't help that the garbage around here hasn't been picked up in what looks like a week and it's awful (the main garbage containers outside I mean). This means I can't throw my stuff away because there is no space left in the bins. To make matters worse it's near my place so it makes my place look trashy. Ugh.
Actually I don't know whether to say that things have been going well or that they have been awful. Sometimes I want to just break down because I hate doing all this alone. Strangely when I start to write out my journals though, everything seems to be fine and I never write about the downside of things.
All in all I guess I am handling is well. For instance my kids are asleep already but that also means that my daughter still hasn't done the dishes. -_- Oh well.