October 23, 2024 - Wednesday


It's hump day! And my busiest day of the week. We did school in the morning, then me and Clem left around 1:30 for choir #1. I got to visit with Brit for a little while, while Clem was at choir, which was great. Then I picked her up and ran to grab Ruby to get to choir #2. BUT, while I was waiting for Clem to get in the car, I chatted with Kristen for a few minutes who told me that the field trip I signed up for tomorrow is TWO HOURS away!!!!!!! I literally had no idea. I'm freaking out about it. I just cannot imagine driving four hours to take the kids to a field trip tomorrow. So, after talking it over with Ben, I cancelled. And I feel horrible. I cannot stand to not do something I said I was going to do. It makes me feel so awful. Besides that, I know how hard it is to get these field trips organized. It's stressful! Also, CACH has a reservation at this place and that means that there will be less people there than we committed to having on the field trip and that makes our organization look bad. Plus, I KNOW that a bunch of the ladies from small group are going to cancel when they hear I cancelled. I hate that about them. Everything is so cliquey! So it's not just the 5 of us from my family that won't be there, it'll be like 20 people not showing up. 

So, I get to small group and admit to the ladies that I cancelled and, what do you know, they ALL cancelled too! I spent the rest of the night preoccupied with my guilt about this field trip. I couldn't even enjoy group. They even had the gall to organize a different fun thing for the kids to do, rather than going on the field trip! I decided that I would not go to that either. I'm just so irritated with them. 

Ollie made a kite out of plastic bags that she was running around the cul-de-sac with. :)

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