August 30, 2023 - Wednesday


It's hump day! Life has been feeling really, really busy since school started a couple of weeks ago. It's been so hard to do anything outside of the house and super disruptive to the school day. How am I ever going to build in the flexibility I SO wanted??? Right now, every time I'm flexible I end up paying for it later in the week. I've been using Tuesdays as our day off of school, which is fine. But before too long, we'll have co-op every other Thursday too. I also have staff meetings every other Wednesday morning, various play groups, reading with Jenny, and keeping up with my close friends. I can't forget keeping up with the kid's friends and homeschool moms that I'm trying to get closer to OR French club, which will be every other Wednesday afternoon. I seriously could have something planned every single weekday, easily. I think I'm going to have to find a way to preserve at least two of the days of the week to be ONLY AT HOME or only doing something in the afternoon when school is finished (even though that means no quiet time on those days 😭). Maybe Mondays and Fridays would work for that? I don't know, but I'm going to have to figure it out! 

Ben thinks I'm going to have to quit Oasis, which I really didn't want to do, but the meetings are crazy with my current schedule! Every other week from 9 to 10:30, plus 25 minutes there and 25 minutes back. It means I'd be gone for the entire time that we typically do school, other than 30 min or so. He's right that it won't work. I'm going to have to talk to Nathan and see if there is any way to work around it. My guess is that he'll want to find someone else to take the job and, while I can accept that, it will make me sad. 

Today was a good day. School was fun, I got to spend some time with Brit, the weather was beautiful, I made a yummy dinner, and I spent some time relaxing. Good stuff! Looking forward to tomorrow. :) 

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