7:45 a.m. Go back in to get kid not yet in car. Leave driveway.
7:47 a.m. At the light, child discovers he is missing a paper that is due first period. Return home to get paper.
7:55 Leave home again.
8:05 Drop off five at school five minutes late, feel momentarily victorious.
8:20 Get back home to discover bus waiting. Get sixth child on bus.
8:22 Get text that child at high school needs papers by 9:30 or the world is doomed. Recognize second child needs papers at the same place or no eligibility for scholarships is possible.
9:00 Get to high school, unpack remaining very tolerant toddler and drop off paper.
9:10 Get phone call that child I dropped off at the bus is at the nurse's office and would I please come pick up.
9:25 The post office is en route so I decide to do that errand first (with one toddler, not two). Errand is a bust as the post office needs my oldest son's signature to deliver.
Drive to school irritated. Pick up son who looks surprisingly spry and happy and healthy. Arrival time? 10:05. Get phone call from first school. An older child there is also not feeling well and wants to come home.
Drive to school with two toddlers. She comes out and gets in the car.
It is 11:00.
Get home and feed people lunch. Sit down, answer emails. Purchase two presents on Amazon.
My six year old is an angel in the Christmas play today at 1:30. Last night her father picked up new shoes for her so she would look finished for the big event. She has a red Christmas dress and black shoes. She looks like a Christmas princess. She feels it. I've earned that smile, so at 1:00, I'm reloading the car with the toddlers to go see the play.
This is my Christmas for the day.
2. Two of my children are running in the 5 mile Baltimore Celtic Solstice tomorrow. So I'll be taking them to Baltimore at 5:30 so they can run with their Aunt and Uncle. I'll get to see one of my nephew's and some of my nieces, babysit while they run, and two or three others may tag along for the fun of it. It should be neat.
3. Today, I will get back my laptop. It has been a long hiatus, exactly one month. When I called Wednesday night, they said they've been calling me, but I'm a stay-at-home mom. I'm the one who answers the phone when it rings. I've heard nothing until I called them.
4. Promotion of a book is difficult. So I'm trying to be proactive, to talk about it when the subject comes up, and to ask others to invite people to read it. I've also learned how to sign a kindle book or any e-book really, and I put a button up on my blog right next to the cover shot of the book so if you click it, it will tell me you want a signature. I've signed my first e-book and that felt like a little victory. I'm also appealing for reviews to one place that reviews a week, and researching what if any publicity I want to do and how.
5. Every year, the college my son attends offers a care package for exams. This is the first year I've done it, mostly because before now I always thought, we only live an hour away, I can bring stuff to him. But I recognized, if I don't do it right then, it won't happen, so this year, I made it happen by being proactive. He called, very pleased to get the care package he didn't expect because it had never happened before.
6. Brilliant Christmas Idea for the day. Someone should sell LED luminaries. I'd buy them. I love the tradition, but keeping the flames lit can be difficult. I admit, I prefer real fire with it's warmer glow and naturally compelling light, but I also want to not babysit the beauty.
7. I've been going to adoration, this week, I've had the opportunity to attend. The experience is more than I can explain in a blurb on a blog post, except to say I understood, "Make the church beautiful." and knew it didn't mean painting the walls (although I'd love them to be a warmer cream than the white) and gold or red or gold and red (I love gold and red), rather than the grey surrounding the windows, and stain glass pictures of Saint Martin and the saints, rather than pastel diagonal panes, but the domestic church, my part of the body of Christ where I'm responsible and have been commissioned. So last night I asked to finish the details on the shoes and this afternoon, one of my sons needs a haircut. I know this is a fixing of the internal and external, but we'll work on both as we go. It's how Saint Francis did it, so I figure, it's not wrong.
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