- Toddler wakes up at 4.
- Crying for no apparent reason.
- Take him to bed with me for another couple of hours of much needed sleep.
- Husband leaves for his day and forces us to wake up and get the morning started.
- Start morning.
- Realise I lost keys. Probably did this but can't remember. Previously blogged about it at length here.
- Car's wipers don't work. Other car at airport with husband.
- It's snowing.
- Daycare starts at 8:30 am.
- Found backup key for car.
- Snowing slows down. No accumulation.
- Leave door unlocked, tell Rusty to guard the house (ha) and leave.
- Drive car to daycare with fan blasting windshield.
- No further incidents on 8-minute drive to the school.
- Drop off child, take down names of kids for future Valentine's card-exchange, look for grocery list.
- Decide to cancel grocery shopping because it starts snowing again.
- Get home.
- Plan on drinking coffee, lurking in blogworld, and start looking for keys.
- Coffee is cold.
- Phone is flashing, voicemail.
- Husband left message he has my keys.
- Men.
- Can't call him back because he is an airline pilot.
- Call neighbour to schedule pick-up at daycare in her car.
- About to go out to take carseat out of my car when an urgent email appears from daughter of next-door neighbour.
- Next-door neighbour is sick again, and needs to call a cab to take her to emerg.
- Could I keep an eye out to see if the cab appears.
- Call neighbour. She's 86. Been sick on and off since August.
- She asks me to call the cab.
- Called cab for her, then go over to see if she can walk, breathe, etc.
- Help her to the cab and send her off.
- Can't accompany her due to keylessness and daycare situation.
- Email daughter back that I put her mom in the cab, they're on the way.
- Correspond with her for a few minutes to calm her down.
- Coffee still cold.
- Jump in shower, feel headache coming on.
- Come out of shower, Germany on IM, we chat about my exciting, eventful morning.
- See neighbour pulling into driveway for daycare pick-up.
- It stopped snowing and the sun is out.
- She still wants to take me to the daycare.
- Lock front door.
- Leave by back door, install carseat in her car, go to daycare for pick-up.
- Hang out until Ben comes out of classroom.
- Come home, take out carseat of neighbour's car, throw it in backseat of my car.
- Listen to usual 5-minute whine about having to go inside and have lunch.
- Make lunch.
- Eat lunch with child.
- Child is now watching a video and will (hopefully) have a nice long nap.
- Made tea.
- Blogged this.
Friday, January 19, 2007
50 events that happened to me this morning
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2 comments:
sounds like a busy morning! and you only stopped at lunch =) I was just clicking the "next blog" button and came across yours. very interesting motherhood experiences. good job!
Well...yes. That was an interesting morning. Thank you for stopping by!
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