For the Girl
Going into Saturday I knew it was going to be tough. I prepared by setting an alarm and going to bed early. At 6:45 Saturday morning, I rolled out of bed, finished drying the kids' soccer uniforms and began my day. Here's our schedule for the day: (Note Phil took Little Man to his soccer game and then backpacking)
8:45 Pack Lady Jane, dressed in long black athletic pants, her soccer jersey and school tennis schools, along with a kit, which included her soccer shots, shin guards, soccer tennis shoes, three bags of snacks, and her soccer ball, into the car. Oh and a bottle of water. Then we headed to the church parking lot I was supposed to drop her off with.
9:00 Arrive at Trinity Church. No one's there. Need gas. Go to gas station. Find where cross streets are they mentioned on the flier. Oh, not that Trinity Church, one of the other five on the same road.
9:10 Sit in car line to get into proper parking lot.
9:20 Get out of car and take Lady Jane to the High School cheerleaders. She changed shirts to the cheerleading one. She's reluctant to stay, but I promise if she doesn't like it, she doesn't have to do it next year.
9:30 Head to High School where parade ends to wait for Lady Jane, set up chair next to other really early people.
9:50 SIL and nephews show up and join me to watch parade.
10:00 Parade begins somewhere far from us.
10:20 First sighting of marching band coming down the hill.
10:35 Lady Jane walks by with Cheerleaders doing a few cheers.
10:40 Pack up chair, say goodbye to SIL, go collect Lady Jane from cheerleaders.
10:45 Get back in car, hand Lady Jane a snack, and drive to soccer field.
11:00 Arrive early at soccer field was told to be there at 11:15 for picture day. Lady Jane changes in the back seat from her cheerleading outfit to her soccer jersey and shorts, then scoots to the front seat to get on her shin guards, socks and shoes. We wait a while in the car.
11:15 No one else is there yet. We abandon the car with soccer ball in hand.
11:20 Coach arrives with daughter. Lady Jane and daughter play at kicking around the soccer ball until they decide they are super heroes instead. Super Kirby(Kirby isn't the other girl's name, but it's what she was calling herself) and Super Lady (Honestly that's what Lady Jane picked, I didn't change it). I sit on the bench behind a fence which does a little to block the full heat of the sun.
11:45 Most of the other kids, except one, has arrived. They take the individual pictures and then decide to take the group picture too.
12:00 The kids take to the field for their half hour of practice before their half hour game. I set up in the shade which grows smaller and smaller as the game progresses.
12:55 Crap! Game has not ended and we are supposed to be at friends for tie dye party at 1:00. Call friend, reassure we will be there probably in 20 minutes.
1:05 For God's sake, end the bleeding game already.
1:08 It's herd ball, just call it.
1:12 I feel bad for the Coach who has to go home and change for a wedding at 2. I quickly pack Lady Jane up and we are off to our next adventure. Lady Jane eats more snack.
1:20 Arrive home, where Lady Jane changes quickly. I find a white t-shirt. She grabs her peanut butter crackers she got at the game and we walk up the hill to the party.
1:30 Arrive at friend's house. Lady Jane takes to rubber banding her white t-shirt. While I take a moment to gorge on the wonderful spread. We see friends we haven't seen in a while. Lady Jane plays while I get to talk and glance at my watch every now and then.
3:00 I check with Lady Jane to see if she wants to stay at our friends for a while longer or go home and have some quiet time. She'd like to stay.
3:35 We head home and pick up our gift card, socks, and directions.
3:40 In car again heading to birthday party for classmate. See cars lined up at junction of interstate, but they are moving, so we continue.
4:00 Arrive at birthday party in one whole piece. Sit down while Lady Jane runs wild with her classmates. Occassionally tears at overly aggressive children, but otherwise I was fine. :) As always there are parents who drop off and disappear and then there are parents who stay. Two of the parents I had met before and one I introduced myself to.
6:00 After gorging herself on chips, Kit Kats and chocolate cake. I pried Lady Jane from the party with our parting gift of a CD of the birthday girl's favorite songs. We returned to the car and I popped in the CD for the ride home. I asked Lady Jane if she wanted to eat out or at home and she said at home. (Silly girl)
6:20 Home again. Finally. I make us some mini corn dogs and we watch the end of the movie she started on Friday night.
7:50 Lady Jane goes upstairs for bed. She has the nerve to say she had an awful day. I blow up at her. (Not literally. I just told her how that made me feel after carting her around the whole day and doing absolutely nothing for me) Then I went downstairs.
8:00 I think I hear Lady Jane crying. I yell up the stairs that she didn't even say she's sorry.
The next morning.
8ish Lady Jane comes into the room with Max and climbs into bed. Max procedes to pounce on our feet. I tell Lady Jane to boot him out. She does and then she starts pouncing feet--Wait, no, she tosses and turns. So I boot her out. She goes to her room and plays with her Littlest Pet Shop.
10ish I finally convince myself to leave bed. But I'm not leaving without my book. Lady Jane apologises for saying she had a bad time yesterday. We hug and make up. We lounge around in the morning. I turn on some cartoons and make her breakfast.
11ish I figure we need showers, but then I get involved with my book and she's watching SpongeBob.
11:30 Okay we really need to move. Get phone call. Oops forgot someone from the PTO was going to drop by. Put off shower.
11:45 Okay PTO been and gone. Now it's time for showers. Lady Jane swears she can do it on her own, so I let her while I take my shower.
12:30 Dressed and ready to go to next party at 1:00. Then I remembered lunch. Party is 6 minutes away from home. Fix Lady Jane lunch.
12:50 Head to party.
1:00 Party. Same two mothers stayed from yesterday and another mother who hadn't made it to the party yesterday. Sat and talked to them all afternoon under a tent in the backyard. Lady Jane had a blast.
4:00 Head home hoping to not have to endure another party for a while. These two were at least better then Chuck e Cheese. Phil and Little Man are back from their journey (which Phil actually blogged about).
So that's it in a nutshell. Lady Jane and I filled the weekend to the brim and managed to come out the other side in tact. Lady Jane mentioned Saturday night at dinner that she missed Flo. I'm sure she'll connect with someone, but I know that it's very hard when you've had a really good friendship to find something to replace it.
Going into Saturday I knew it was going to be tough. I prepared by setting an alarm and going to bed early. At 6:45 Saturday morning, I rolled out of bed, finished drying the kids' soccer uniforms and began my day. Here's our schedule for the day: (Note Phil took Little Man to his soccer game and then backpacking)
8:45 Pack Lady Jane, dressed in long black athletic pants, her soccer jersey and school tennis schools, along with a kit, which included her soccer shots, shin guards, soccer tennis shoes, three bags of snacks, and her soccer ball, into the car. Oh and a bottle of water. Then we headed to the church parking lot I was supposed to drop her off with.
9:00 Arrive at Trinity Church. No one's there. Need gas. Go to gas station. Find where cross streets are they mentioned on the flier. Oh, not that Trinity Church, one of the other five on the same road.
9:10 Sit in car line to get into proper parking lot.
9:20 Get out of car and take Lady Jane to the High School cheerleaders. She changed shirts to the cheerleading one. She's reluctant to stay, but I promise if she doesn't like it, she doesn't have to do it next year.
9:30 Head to High School where parade ends to wait for Lady Jane, set up chair next to other really early people.
9:50 SIL and nephews show up and join me to watch parade.
10:00 Parade begins somewhere far from us.
10:20 First sighting of marching band coming down the hill.
10:35 Lady Jane walks by with Cheerleaders doing a few cheers.
10:40 Pack up chair, say goodbye to SIL, go collect Lady Jane from cheerleaders.
10:45 Get back in car, hand Lady Jane a snack, and drive to soccer field.
11:00 Arrive early at soccer field was told to be there at 11:15 for picture day. Lady Jane changes in the back seat from her cheerleading outfit to her soccer jersey and shorts, then scoots to the front seat to get on her shin guards, socks and shoes. We wait a while in the car.
11:15 No one else is there yet. We abandon the car with soccer ball in hand.
11:20 Coach arrives with daughter. Lady Jane and daughter play at kicking around the soccer ball until they decide they are super heroes instead. Super Kirby(Kirby isn't the other girl's name, but it's what she was calling herself) and Super Lady (Honestly that's what Lady Jane picked, I didn't change it). I sit on the bench behind a fence which does a little to block the full heat of the sun.
11:45 Most of the other kids, except one, has arrived. They take the individual pictures and then decide to take the group picture too.
12:00 The kids take to the field for their half hour of practice before their half hour game. I set up in the shade which grows smaller and smaller as the game progresses.
12:55 Crap! Game has not ended and we are supposed to be at friends for tie dye party at 1:00. Call friend, reassure we will be there probably in 20 minutes.
1:05 For God's sake, end the bleeding game already.
1:08 It's herd ball, just call it.
1:12 I feel bad for the Coach who has to go home and change for a wedding at 2. I quickly pack Lady Jane up and we are off to our next adventure. Lady Jane eats more snack.
1:20 Arrive home, where Lady Jane changes quickly. I find a white t-shirt. She grabs her peanut butter crackers she got at the game and we walk up the hill to the party.
1:30 Arrive at friend's house. Lady Jane takes to rubber banding her white t-shirt. While I take a moment to gorge on the wonderful spread. We see friends we haven't seen in a while. Lady Jane plays while I get to talk and glance at my watch every now and then.
3:00 I check with Lady Jane to see if she wants to stay at our friends for a while longer or go home and have some quiet time. She'd like to stay.
3:35 We head home and pick up our gift card, socks, and directions.
3:40 In car again heading to birthday party for classmate. See cars lined up at junction of interstate, but they are moving, so we continue.
4:00 Arrive at birthday party in one whole piece. Sit down while Lady Jane runs wild with her classmates. Occassionally tears at overly aggressive children, but otherwise I was fine. :) As always there are parents who drop off and disappear and then there are parents who stay. Two of the parents I had met before and one I introduced myself to.
6:00 After gorging herself on chips, Kit Kats and chocolate cake. I pried Lady Jane from the party with our parting gift of a CD of the birthday girl's favorite songs. We returned to the car and I popped in the CD for the ride home. I asked Lady Jane if she wanted to eat out or at home and she said at home. (Silly girl)
6:20 Home again. Finally. I make us some mini corn dogs and we watch the end of the movie she started on Friday night.
7:50 Lady Jane goes upstairs for bed. She has the nerve to say she had an awful day. I blow up at her. (Not literally. I just told her how that made me feel after carting her around the whole day and doing absolutely nothing for me) Then I went downstairs.
8:00 I think I hear Lady Jane crying. I yell up the stairs that she didn't even say she's sorry.
The next morning.
8ish Lady Jane comes into the room with Max and climbs into bed. Max procedes to pounce on our feet. I tell Lady Jane to boot him out. She does and then she starts pouncing feet--Wait, no, she tosses and turns. So I boot her out. She goes to her room and plays with her Littlest Pet Shop.
10ish I finally convince myself to leave bed. But I'm not leaving without my book. Lady Jane apologises for saying she had a bad time yesterday. We hug and make up. We lounge around in the morning. I turn on some cartoons and make her breakfast.
11ish I figure we need showers, but then I get involved with my book and she's watching SpongeBob.
11:30 Okay we really need to move. Get phone call. Oops forgot someone from the PTO was going to drop by. Put off shower.
11:45 Okay PTO been and gone. Now it's time for showers. Lady Jane swears she can do it on her own, so I let her while I take my shower.
12:30 Dressed and ready to go to next party at 1:00. Then I remembered lunch. Party is 6 minutes away from home. Fix Lady Jane lunch.
12:50 Head to party.
1:00 Party. Same two mothers stayed from yesterday and another mother who hadn't made it to the party yesterday. Sat and talked to them all afternoon under a tent in the backyard. Lady Jane had a blast.
4:00 Head home hoping to not have to endure another party for a while. These two were at least better then Chuck e Cheese. Phil and Little Man are back from their journey (which Phil actually blogged about).
So that's it in a nutshell. Lady Jane and I filled the weekend to the brim and managed to come out the other side in tact. Lady Jane mentioned Saturday night at dinner that she missed Flo. I'm sure she'll connect with someone, but I know that it's very hard when you've had a really good friendship to find something to replace it.
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