The morning was a little crazy. If the routine is interrupted, and it was (by printing the marketing letters for Clowns Ex Machina which I thought would happen last night, but we got home at 10:00 pm after eating out as a family immediately after curriculum night and the middle school informational meeting and My Kid had a meltdown so we had to regroup and settle and that was it the day was over–it just wasn’t possible to do secretarial work) things get forgotten. My Kids lunch didn’t make it to school this morning because although I made it–I didn’t hang it on the front door knob which means neither myself, The Husband, nor My Kid saw it. When we got to school we realized it was still on the counter. Aghhh!
After drop-off The Husband and I made time for a quick coffee date to reconnect and talk.
Last night was curriculum night at My Kid’s school. 4th grade is the hardest year of elementary school because of the stupid standardized tests. Three days of math followed by three days of “English Language Arts”. That’s SIX DAYS! College finals week is only a week. A week is only FIVE DAYS. This seems unnecessarily cruel. AND the results of the tests affect their middle school placement. This is insane!
I’ll post the letters for Clowns Ex Machina on the way back to school. I have to be there by 12:30 to chaperone the field trip. It will be such a relief to get rid of the letters. Data-merge computer tasks make me so tense my eating and sleeping are affected.
I had planned to do laundry today, but because I use a laundromat I need at minimum a 3-hour block of time and as it turns out I’m home for less than two hours.
What was it I was supposed to do?
Oh yeah, I remember now. I’ve got to fax the writers agreement I signed last week, upload a writer bio and compose a post for a syndicated mommy blog. So glad I don’t work.