Oh wow, you guys. Re-entry was TOUGH this week after being home with no kid activities for a solid glorious seven days, and here are 5 every specific areas of utter suckitude.
1. SNOW IS THE WORST. I hate driving in snow, and I think about just how much I hate it every time I wish for my minivan's automatic sliding doors (which is a lot). I had to ditch my Honda minivan for an AWD SUV (the Toyota Sienna comes AWD, but not the Odyssey), and even though I miss the room and the convenience of a minivan, the ability to drive confidently in the snow and ice is worth it (I guess). It took me an HOUR longer than usual to do the Monday activity driving (Ben had to alter his schedule slightly, so I had to do Monday, which is not usually a me problem), and i was VERY stabby. Plus! Everyone needed all their gear to go to school with them if they wanted to go sledding (Dorothy and Cooper) or visit the playground (Minnie) during lunch. Minnie has extras of everything to leave in her locker, but Dorothy and Cooper? Did not have a single pair of boots that fit them and only 1 pair of snow pants between them. Amazon to the rescue, but not until WEDNESDAY. It was a mess early in the week. (Cute though)
2. Leaving the house is more complicated than I remember. And I remember it being VERY COMPLICATED. (This did not help)
3. Somehow, in just one week, I completely lost my sense of time allocation. BT (before Thanksgiving) I knew exactly what I needed to be doing at every second of the morning between my eyes flying open and Dorothy and Cooper's bus coming down the street, but this week? VERY off my game. On Tuesday, for example, I was happily walking Dorothy and Cooper to the bus in the same braids I slept and ran in with no makeup on, still in my sweats. And then I remembered that Tuesday is the day I need to leave for work as soon as I walk them to the bus. WUT.
4. Minnie got the stomach flu. When Ben was out of town. OF COURSE. By the time you read this, I probably also have the stomach flu. A sick kid did not make the week any easier, you know?
5. I have one hundred billion million things to do between this exact second and December 11, and I might need a robot version of me to pitch in and knock out this list. Thanksgiving was so late this year that fall break spat me right out in the middle of the end-of-term hurricane, and I am SHOOK.
Some bright spots though:
1. I made 200 of these and just... didn't eat them-- amazing. I didn't even want to eat them. I am adjusting to life without a sugar rush, and it's pretty great.
2. We had some non puking cozy moments at home and saw
Zootopia 2, which is GREAT.
3. I added another Christmas bedroom to the list (the spare bed in there did not get a Christmas comforter because I only had 3).
4. This book is on sale for $5 on Audible and Elaine Stritch reads it. I LOVE the movie and can't wait to watch it with Minnie. It's making our nightly drives fly by.
5. On Monday I went straight from a meeting to doing the dance/dive drive, so I texted Dorothy to ask if she was getting dressed, and I got this darling video in return
