January 6, 2004

• Homecoming Routine?

  
  

  Yesterday turned into a whirl of insanity that I hadn't planned.  Yes, I do pencil in my insanity, it's part of the fun.  I had a hard time getting to sleep after my drive back Sunday so I was up until ... about 3?  Monday morning.  Finally got to sleep, then I had to be up again a little after 6 to get the kids to school on time.  So here was my day ...

  
  

  7:30 - leave home to drop kids at school
  8:00 - dropped by Superintendent's office to complete the next step in the application to be a substitute teacher process.
  8:30 - Post Office
  9:00 - Bank
  9:15 - Walmart (This is the black hole of the morning, I'm not sure why it took an hour to pick up bread, milk, and toilet paper!)
  10:15 - drive back to Salem
  10:45 - stop in doctor's office to make an appointment and talk with the billing person about a charge from last summer that was incorrectly billed to my insurance so it hasn't been paid.  Yes, I've been trying to sort this out via phone for over a month, being there in person we solved it in about 15 minutes.
  11:10 - gas station
  11:30 - back to my house to put away groceries.  Left a message for the therapist to call me back about setting up appointments for the kids as we go through this separation and divorce thing.
  12:00 - picked up Barb to ride with me as I make a trip to Brownstown for MORE business
  2:30 - back from Brownstown, pick up kids from school
  3:00 - kids are settled in with afterschool snack - I return phone calls that have been piling up since last Wednesday
  3:30 - I take a bit of time to try and organize my thoughts about a poem that's been stuck in my head
  4:00 - Tim checks in and I describe some of the above - he makes the command decision NOT to ask me what's for dinner, instead he offers to come home early and take the kids to McDonald's.  I check my email. 
  5:15 - I wonder if the dog has been outside at all today, start a load of laundry
  5:45 - Tim arrives, while we talk about the business of the family, I notice that the bowl of Great Grains I had poured for my breakfast is still sitting on the table, still without milk . . . so I eat my breakfast.  Never did add milk, and it wasn't half bad.
  6:00 - I'm in bed sleeping. 

  
  

  Woke up at about 10:30 and checked on the family - they were all here and alive - so I went back to bed. 

  
  

  Since I've been telling you guys about my trip to Arkansasa and about the family I visited while I was there I thought I'd post a few photos of them. 

  
  

  

  
  

  This is my cousin, Jeff, with two of his daughters.  Yes, that IS a saddle on his back.  He doesn't have a horse, but he found this saddle and got a really good deal on it.  I'm thinking that there will be a horse in his near future.

  
  

  

  
  

  Jeff and all his girls.  They are charmers every one.  And he's about to go nuts already at the thought of them out in the big bad world.  The one in his arm is the same age as Tucker and when she and Tucker get together, it's scary what all they encourage each other to do.  Tucker and Bailey have missed each other in this long 6 months since our last visit.

  
  

  OKay - I have more photos, but apparently Xanga is done playing nice with the uploads, so I'll have to save those for another day.
   

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