Things have been humming along pretty well. The kids’ schedules are coming together (scouts, sports, etc) and I’m adapting well to being out of the house 2-4 hours a day at college. After my classes, I’ve been running a few quick errands before heading home. It seems I’m now spreading errands out over a few days instead of jamming them all into one. I used to ‘jam them all into one day’ to save gas and extra running but now since I’m out anyways… Who knows if it’s actually better either way, I guess I’m a little less frazzled not trying to run to 12 places in 5 hours (old way). And then I come home and do homework/studying. So far so good and tomorrow I have my first quiz (Physiology lecture).
Mondays however (today!) are not pretty. Due to wonky changes in both Zach and the twin’s soccer practice (i.e. we didn’t start out this insane), I have now have a hideous overlap and back to back events. Monday (starting next week) has 4 kids in religion classes (Zach the odd man out) from 4:30-5:30, twins soccer practice 5:30-7, Zach’s soccer practice 6-7:30, and Zach’s scouts from 7-8:30. It wouldn’t be so bad if the practices were near each other but no, they are 10+ miles across town apart (with religion and scouts kinda sorta in the middle). And ‘across town’ means with crossing two major roadways and countless stop lights and about a half an hour drive time. Oy…
Tonight I have help so it’s not too bad. But when it’s just me, I’ve already warned Zach’s coach that he’ll be missing Monday practices (both teams practice again on Wednesday, same times, yeehaw). It’s only rec soccer, the whole point is to learn teamwork and exercise a bit, I’m not going to lose sleep over this.
An interesting thought… Back in Maryland we could stay on the same soccer team for both fall/spring and even the next year as long as the teams were relatively balanced and the coach continued to coach. The twins played 4 ’seasons’ (fall, spring, fall, spring) under the same awesome coach (he was even a rocket scientist, hehe). By the 3rd time around, we had great carpools, I knew most of the parents very well. Here in Indiana, they change the teams every season. And you know what, I’m not comfortable letting my kids ride with just whoever ended up being on the team. A week and a half into this season and I honestly don’t even know the coaches names yet.
The good news is that this season’s games aren’t at the same times. Which is much better than last spring when we had three Saturdays with games at the exact same time. And you guessed it, they were also ‘across town’ from each other…