After I picked up My Kid at school and she had played in the playground with her friends for a while, I had to take her into Manhattan because the timing of the childcare pass between me and The Husband did not allow for either taking her all the way home, and waiting for him to get there before I could leave for my commute or getting her all the way uptown to my husbands office in Midtown and back down to the studio in the East Village before the start of rehearsal at 6:30. Fortunately The Husband was able to leave the office a few minutes early and we were able to do the switch in front of the building so she didn’t have to come up to the studio (especially since I had forgotten to bring her Ninetendo DS as promised.) I wasn’t the only one. One of the clowns was manouvering her stroller into the tiny retro-fitted elevator as I got on. Already there another of the women clowns was settling her preschooler on a yoga mat with snacks and picture books and her ipod. The babysitter had cancelled. The other clown’s husband showed up in short order to collect his own toddler in a stroller before we had even started our warmups. I think the other two mommy clowns were paying babysitters by the hour for the time they were at rehearsal in addition to the time it took to get to rehearsal.
Tag: iPod
Cookie Deadline Emergency!
Last year I was such a good mommy helping My Kid sell her Girl Scout Cookies to the neighbors and the folks at the diner and showing others who didn’t even want the cookies how to avoid the calories by sending them to the military troops overseas (so My Kid could get her Girl Scout Cookies for The Troops badge). This year I have done nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada. Squat. Nothing.
Therefore my kid has sold nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada. Squat. Nothing.
Sooooo. The sale ends this weekend…. Yikes!!!!!
I am scrambling to find out the price of a box of cookies. I am that out of the loop!
Bad timing. The sale started in December not long before Christmas break. Need I say more…
My sister came from LA for a visit.
We went to Hawaii for a conference and My Kid missed the first week of school.
Our return was delayed and we took the red-eye from Seattle arriving back in Brooklyn at 6:30 am Monday morning. The Husband stopped at home just long enough to take a shower before going in to the office.
My Kid got to school on time so she could touch base with her teachers and classmates on the last day before the @#$%^! No Child Left Behind 3rd Grade English Language Assessment Two-day-long Standardized Test!
The Husband was too busy and too new at his job to let anyone know his household contained a cookie pusher and take orders at the office like I wanted. Last year he took orders from his team but by the time the cookies arrived the company had been sold and the staff had scattered and we were left with a lot of extra cookies. I don’t want to do that again.
And now the sale ends in 4 days! I don’t want My Kid to sell NOTHING!
Just trying to sell enough to get the participation patch…and maybe the cookies for the troops patch…
As for the Girl Scout incentive prizes; pajamas, beach towel or USB Band and iPod Nano (for selling 1000 or more boxes of cookies) Fageddaboutit!