So for the next five days (give or take Monday morning) I will be a single mother. Denis leaves straight from work tonight to drive to VA to help my mother bring her tea website into the 21st Century. He’ll be spending the bulk of Saturday doing photography of various layouts of product that my mom has for sale. He arrives back home Sunday night and then leaves Monday afternoon for a three night trip to Dallas with his new company.
And I will be spending as much time as possible keeping those kids occupied. Tonight we will go to the store (we have no bread or skim milk or soy milk in the house) after I pick them up from daycare. Tomorrow if the weather permits I’m going to try and take them someplace that will keep them active and hyper for a couple of hours so that when they come home they’ll pass out peacefully into some quiet time. Maybe the zoo, even though they just went a couple weeks ago (they love the zoo and it’s free for us). Although Denis informs me that our church is having some sort of festival tomorrow as well. Sunday is church followed by who knows what. The three days after that will be easy, since we have a set pattern in the mornings getting ready and at night going to bed.
I could tell CootieGirl’s teacher wasn’t happy this morning when I told her I wasn’t able to pick up the kids until at least 6:00 p.m. for the next four school nights because of my commute (Denis normally picks them up around 5:45 p.m.). Although today might be okay since Mr. BIL already said he hopes to be out of here by 5:00 p.m. today so he can go running for a while before heading home (he’s a marathon runner). So obviously I’m trying to get him to sign as many letters and complete as many projects as I can so that he doesn’t feel like he needs to stay any later. *lol*