Day 15: No Idea For A Title
15 Nov 2008
So it’s late Saturday afternoon, I’ve been at work most of the day (after another early start - and a late night last night after basketball) so I’m pretty damn tired. It’s been one of those days.
While I was at work I got a call from my son who tells me that he accidentally turned the power off to my freezer last night before we all went out - I of course didn’t notice it last night or early this morning before I left so everything defrosted - which totally sucked - not only was there water everywhere, but there’s was a few dollars worth of frozen stuff in there that now is no good at all.
Now I’m trying to organise my kids - I have two at home and one at her nanas. One wants to go down there as well - so they’ll both stay the night which means only having my son at home tonight - all that’s fine, but I need to also try and organise it so I’m covered for tomorrow. I have to get my son to his job early in the morning - then one of my daughters to her basketball training - and figure out what to do with the third child. The biggest pain of it all is the timing - my son’s job and my daughters basketball are within 5 minutes of each other but the timing means three trips there and back (a reasonable distance) one to get my son to work, come back - wait an hour or so and take my daughter to basketball, come home and then go back again late tomorrow afternoon to pick my son up. And I really want a sleep in.
Perhaps if I’m really lucky I’ll be able to talk the kid’s dad into taking my boy to his work, which means only two trips there and back for me (after picking my daughter up first from her grandparents) and a bit later start so a semi-sleep in. Here’s hoping luck is on my side and he’ll do it for me. This getting kids to and from is probably my single biggest problem with being a single mum. Expenses aside it’s just a pain trying to figure out who needs to be where at what time and how I plan my routes to get them there.
