And it goes a little somethin' like THIS:
Friday:
Jeffy's fever is down, Charlie has the day off
Get all the big kids to school
Drop little kids off at Kim's
Drive up to Park City with C-Man, tour galleries, take notes for Art assignment, take lots of pictures - THIS, I can do! - : )
Drive back, pick up little kidlets, (enjoy the fabulous weather) take Aleia and Tommy to piano lessons
Drop film off at Target, grab Tominator and Lea, pick up Laena from Tardy School (read detention)
Deal with big kids, conjure up an after school snack, take Clint to work
Figure out dinner, get Eric from Track practice, take Eric to work
Eat dinner, hook Laena up with car/ride to Spring Fling, try to fix camera
Work on BYU-I detail, EFY sign-ups, acquire tickets for temple dedication Sunday, take Aleia to sleep-over
Bag Twilight party, more calls for blood drive, fetch Eric, wrap things up, Family Prayer, get to bed (Ha!)
Wrestle little buggers into bed, take Diego home, beautiful, beautiful sleep
Saturday:
Kids up, Laena off to Tardy School, me to gym, (scratch that, slept in), wonder why I agreed to fill in for Diann on Tuesday with that 45 minute presentation. . .
Laena babysitting for Laura, get Clint working on recruit times for Eagle project, make job lists, clean house, do laundry, get Aleia to Activity Days, homework (sure)
Take Jefferson to doctor, (thank you Charlie), put together Singing Time lesson for Sunday, take Lea to birthday party, grocery shopping, pick up prescriptions
Make disc for Mama, encourage Laena to drop off applications, cut Tommy's hair, give Jeffy medicine
Take Eric to work, score babysitter for double date with Charlie and Bullards, catch movie, get ready for church at 9 am
Take Diego home, pick up Eric, grab Sprite for Laena, (who now has the flu), finish up laundry
Wind it up, put them down, collapse into bed (didn't actually happen, because Charlie happened by a Red Box, brought home Twilight, and we stayed up half the night watching it)
Sunday:
Get up, take care of sick kids, get family to church
Teach 40 little children Primary songs, help Clint and Charlie with Blood Drive sign ups, get little guys home, deal with Choir practice, help Laena apply for scholarship
Home Teachers coming over, Draper Temple Dedication with family (unfortunately I missed it, Jeffy was still sick)
Picked up touch of the flu, took a beautiful, beautiful NAP, (THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN, angels singing, baby asleep, no teenagers in the house, bless you Charlie), made pasta
Helped Aleia with Theatre Class memorization, wondered about the sudden cold snap, got ready for school Monday morning, tried to do homework
Read scriptures with the kids, watched Easter Beagle with the Binky, pinned down the fort, somehow made it to bed
Monday:
Woke up to a full-fledged snow storm, big kids off to school, broke windshield wiper AGAIN, got Lea to class, picked up muffins in my bathrobe
Called high school about announcements, called Miss Roybal about presentation, contacted Red Cross about eligibility, verified appointment time for refinance
Got assignment together, went over schedule, discovered that Eric's Track meet, Aleia's play, Clint's Eagle Project, and Charlie's class for work are all scheduled for the . . same . . . time.
My question is. . .
HOW DO SINGLE MOTHERS . . . DO. . IT. . ?
6 comments:
This could've been much more comprehensive, but I've already blocked a lot of stuff out. . . I'm convinced that short term memory loss is the key to keeping our sanity! : )
How do single mothers do it?
Well, how I did it for those few years... poorly...
You skip stuff, you leave stuff out, you pray often, "Please don't let my screw-up affect them disastrously," and generally fake it -- much the same as married mothers :)
I'm diggin' ya, Sister! : )
I forgot, Friday night Charlie and Tommy were at a Scout activity, working on the Astronomy merit badge.
this is ludicrous. How do MARRIED mothers do it?
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