A day in the life of Rebecca
7:00 am: wake up, get dressed, brush teeth, gather stuff, etc.
7:30 am: wake Nikolai up, get his clothes for the day, wrap him in a blanket and put him in the running car.
7:35 am: drive past Gail to drop Melissa off at school; backtrack and drop Nikolai off at Gail's; backtrack again to drive myself to work with a 9:00 arrival time.
9:00 am to Noon: do as much work as I possibly can between meetings.
Noon to 1:00 pm: pay bills online, set up service appointments, wood deliveries, septic maintenance, pump maintenance, deliveries, run all errands, do shopping, etc.
1:00 pm to 2:40 pm: try desperately to focus on work for a few hours.
2:40 pm to 3:10 pm: pick up melissa from school and drop her off at her dad's house.
3:10 pm to 5:00 pm: do the final work I'll be able to manage, pray I'll have more time tomorrow to focus on critical things I didn't finish.
5:00 pm: pick up melissa from her dad's house, pick up nikolai from gail's, do grocery shopping with kids if necessary, get gas if necessary, drive home.
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm: light fires in woodstove and fireplace; make Nikolai dinner and make him eat it; stoke fire; make melissa dinner; stoke fire; help melissa with homework; stoke fire; clean all rooms in the house; stoke fire; wash, dry, fold and put away at least 4 loads of laundry; stoke fire; do the dishes; stoke fire; make myself something to eat if it wasn't the same as Melissa's food; stoke fire; do at least 1 deep cleaning task, last night's task was disinfecting the bathrooms; stoke fire; clean the bathtub and give Nikolai a bath; stoke fire; read bugs books to Nikolai, and put him to sleep; spend quality time with Melissa and/or log in and finish tasks I didn't get to finish at work; fall asleep exhausted around 11:00.
tired yet?
7:30 am: wake Nikolai up, get his clothes for the day, wrap him in a blanket and put him in the running car.
7:35 am: drive past Gail to drop Melissa off at school; backtrack and drop Nikolai off at Gail's; backtrack again to drive myself to work with a 9:00 arrival time.
9:00 am to Noon: do as much work as I possibly can between meetings.
Noon to 1:00 pm: pay bills online, set up service appointments, wood deliveries, septic maintenance, pump maintenance, deliveries, run all errands, do shopping, etc.
1:00 pm to 2:40 pm: try desperately to focus on work for a few hours.
2:40 pm to 3:10 pm: pick up melissa from school and drop her off at her dad's house.
3:10 pm to 5:00 pm: do the final work I'll be able to manage, pray I'll have more time tomorrow to focus on critical things I didn't finish.
5:00 pm: pick up melissa from her dad's house, pick up nikolai from gail's, do grocery shopping with kids if necessary, get gas if necessary, drive home.
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm: light fires in woodstove and fireplace; make Nikolai dinner and make him eat it; stoke fire; make melissa dinner; stoke fire; help melissa with homework; stoke fire; clean all rooms in the house; stoke fire; wash, dry, fold and put away at least 4 loads of laundry; stoke fire; do the dishes; stoke fire; make myself something to eat if it wasn't the same as Melissa's food; stoke fire; do at least 1 deep cleaning task, last night's task was disinfecting the bathrooms; stoke fire; clean the bathtub and give Nikolai a bath; stoke fire; read bugs books to Nikolai, and put him to sleep; spend quality time with Melissa and/or log in and finish tasks I didn't get to finish at work; fall asleep exhausted around 11:00.
tired yet?
posted by rebecca at 3:05 PM
7 Comments:
don't they have school busses in your country? if so, why can't melissa take the bus to her dad's? and if not, why can't angel take her? why do you have to do everything?
angel took his hands off of it. school busses are limited to a small number of miles away, based on school district. Melissa is in a SV school because her dad lives in SV. I live 1/2 an hour away. The only option here is public transportation.
but they can't make her go to a SV school if her dad lives in SV and not bus her from school to her dad's SV home. that doesn't make sense.
oooooooh! wow!! very good point. I'm going to have to look into that! wow! what a great idea, Kel...thanks!
sure! you might also try this
oh man, kel, you rock
so. there are no school busses for this middle school. there goes that solution
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