School plus braces plus birthday party plus glasses plus gymnastics plus piano plus guitar plus church choir and school choir equals a "hot puddle" of a girl. Thank you to my friend Casey for that most excellent descriptor.
Twice this week the girl forgot her glasses for school and I had to drive home and get them.
Am I the only mom who unloads the backpack at 7:42 a.m.?
You can stick a pen behind your ear to sign the planner at the stoplight.
You can study for spelling on the car ride from Blackhawk Middle School to Deerwood Elementary. It's just an extremely short walk, I mean drive. . .
You can learn to play the guitar in thirty minutes a week. It just takes a very very very long time.
The amount of stuff we are trying to cram into our lives between 3:00 and 8:30 p.m. everyday would kill a small horse.
It takes the girl twenty minutes to eat a piece of toast. You can imagine how long to learn a Clementi Sonatina.
Step one: earlier bedtime. Step two: cancel all extra appointments, including the dentist--the girl's mouth has had enough. Step three: fun colorful getting out of house and after school charts. Step four: consider postponing guitar lessons until she can practice independently (post graduate school?). Ditto on day two of gymnastics.
Dr. Suzuki asks us to reflect on ourselves. It's very rarely the child's problem. Step one for me? Opt out of four day MEA trip to Arizona with the family. Four days at home alone getting my act together will go a long way.
I'll let you know how it goes. For both of us.
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