Well, I did it. I made the drive to the new school. Yes, I totally procrastinated it, seeing as school starts on Monday. Thank heavens I went though – I had forgotten all about the formalities of starting at a new school: the birth certificate, immunization records, proof of residency, etc. Duh! Of course we’ve got to go to the school, meet the teacher, learn the drop-off procedures and find out what time school actually starts at! Duh, duh, double-duh! I would have obliviously dropped Elijah off on Monday, sporting shiny new school supplies, but fully unprepared for his day. “Good save!” — at least, that’s what I’m telling myself to quiet the other voices taunting, “Bad mommy!,” “What was I thinking?,” and the ubiquitous, “Duh!”
The hardest realization? This new school is fourteen miles away, not nine, as I’d thought. What kind of mother figures this stuff out the Friday before school starts? And it gets worse… I’m leaving town Monday evening. I’m flying to St. Louis to help my favorite Laura settle in to her new house. During the first week of school? Will my poor child survive? Man, I must be in some sort of denial – it’s clouding my brain. Barring further deep thought, I think it’s that drive (I don’t like sitting still for so long, it makes me antsy). Well, boo hiss, bah humbug, pobre mio – whatever – enough with the confessions. I’ve just got to snap out of it and adjust. Think happy thoughts, right? I’m going to go vedge on the couch, watch some Gilmore Girls, and pig out on my favorite chocolate chip cookies – oh, and work on those chickies. Yes! Feeling better already… thanks.
Good luck with the new school.
The drive will be great for listening to the radio, soundbooks and podcasts.
Children’s soundbooks when you do have the kid(s) in the car, grownup stuff when you don’t.
ahh, the gilmore girls – a cure for all ills, i say!
you are a geat mom, We have to juggle a lot. You are doing good. Good luck. Clarice
There are a lot of things that we moms have to do and I think {by what I read here} that you do them very well. Have fun on your trip and go easy on yourself.
What a fun blog you’ve got. I am already anxious to try and make a headband and those Bitty booties!!!
Who would know you need to do all that stuff? Not me. But it sounds like you have your kids’ best interests at heart and that will mean way more than having a perfect checklist, perfectly checked off.
14 miles — all in the city? — can be a long drive twice a day (or is it 28 miles twice a day?!). I do heartily recommend audiobooks and/or an iPod hookup for those times when you don’t want to listen to what the radio’s serving up. Or maybe you can train your mind to be alert to the road at the same time you’re dreaming up the next big thing.
Registration for school- Tip: Haul entire personal file cabinet to school. Just when you think you have every blooming document that could be needed, they dream up another one.
Be sure to briskly request the same items from teacher/principal/head of school board. Act suspicious as to why “they” are unwilling to share their “birth certificate, immunization records, proof of residency, etc.”
For added fun: Submit documents that they didn’t request, such as a copy of your last auto tune up, recipe for “Uncle Frank’s Marshmallow Sweet Potatoes”, and your family genealogy going back 12 generations. If informed that those documents are not required, ask why not.