Today’s Agenda: Last day without kids edition
Aug 23, 2011 Today's Agenda
So tomorrow I drive back to Pennsylvania to pick the kids up from their week at sleep-away camp. Today is my last day to soak up the kidlessness until…Saturday. When they go to Florida with The Ass for five days. I think I hear many tiny violins playing…
So today I will try to tackle all of the laundry that is not theirs, since I anticipate them coming home with some very stinky and dirty stuff.
I’m also going to redeem some Gaggle of Chicks vouchers. I did some work for GoC and got paid in credit on their site, then I won another big credit on their site, and went on quite a spree. I’ll start off by shopping on SharpShades.com and InspireYourWalls.com. If I’m not too shopped out I might tackle custom chocolate bars on ChocBites.com. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of deals that I have waiting for me. I have a big cleaning and organizing credit coming from Next Level Services, so I may try to book that for when the family is gone. Let them come home to cleanliness and organization. Aren’t I the best?
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Tags: camp, cleaning, Gaggle of Chicks
Today’s Agenda: bathroom flowers edition
Aug 19, 2011 Today's Agenda
So yesterday I dropped the kids off in Pennsylvania for a week of camp, and when my husband got home from work he had two dozen roses with him. And we weren’t even fighting! He said it was either to start our week alone off right, or as a pre-apology for whatever he does while we’re kid-less that pisses me off. Either way, much appreciated.
However, when I go to bed or leave the house I have to put them in the bathroom, due to a cat who would happily binge and purge all day on flowers. They’ll probably spend most of their time there. Pretty.
So today is filled with boring appointments, painful appointments, and indulgent appointments: bank, wax, and mani/pedi/massage. And wondering what the kids are doing. And obsessively checking the camp’s website to see if any pictures of them have been posted. Not that I’m missing them yet or anything…
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Today’s Agenda: driving edition
Aug 18, 2011 Today's Agenda
Today there’s only one thing on the agenda: driving the kids to their sleep-away camp in Pennsylvania…and wondering the whole time why I didn’t sign them up for the bus.
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Today’s Agenda: STILL LABELING! edition
Aug 17, 2011 Today's Agenda
I’ve been putting off writing this post in the same way I’ve been avoiding finishing the labeling I started yesterday. But my kids are going to sleep-away camp tomorrow morning, so it simply has to be done. Today.
Here’s the thing I didn’t realize before this week: even if your kids are going to sleep-away camp for just a week, they still have to bring exactly the same number of things they’d have to bring if they were going for eight weeks. I’m not sure why this didn’t occur to me, but it just didn’t. I had glanced at the packing list months ago, but assumed a mini-list would be sent to us parents dipping our toes in the sleep-away camp waters with a week of mini-camp.
But the thing is, for the longer camp sessions the camp does laundry once a week. If you go for a week, you don’t get your laundry done, and still need the same amount of stuff.
No, I take it back. When I called Monday to ask about an alternate packing list, I was asked if my kids routinely wet the bed. Nope. OK, then they only have to bring one set of sheets, instead of two. Uh, OK. Great. That will certainly lighten the load. That means only 300 items to label and pack instead of 303.
Every sock. Every pair of underwear. Everything has to be labeled.
And I still can’t find my Mabel’s Labels. So pretty much everything is getting the laundry pen treatment. And my once legible writing is getting more ridiculous with every item labeled.
Want to bet they still come home with all the wrong stuff?
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Today’s Agenda: labeling hell edition
Aug 16, 2011 Today's Agenda
Today will be filled to the brim with something I hate to do: labeling clothes. I’m sending my kids to sleep-away camp in a few days, and absolutely everything they take with them has to be labeled. Everything.
We also have to go to Modell’s and buy the sports stuff that we couldn’t get at Target. My kids are left-handed and we couldn’t find the correct baseball glove for Jake (Fiona can’t throw well with either hand so is it terrible that I’m sticking her in a $10 right-hand-throwing pink T-ball glove?). Plus a cup, mouth guard, skateboarding pads (we let him skate with just a helmet, but the camp – which has a pretty fierce skate park – will not).
Plus I’m sure when I finally dig the crinkled marked-up packing list out of my purse I’ll see that we forgot a few things yesterday. So, day two of camp packing will consume me. Thank goodness the weather is shitty. I won’t have to feel bad that we’re all inside.
UPDATE: I think I’d put this homework assignment out of my head because I knew it would be difficult, but I’m going to work on this today too. If you have time, do your own. Time is precious.
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Today’s Agenda: homework edition
Aug 15, 2011 Today's Agenda
So one thing I can’t stand is when bloggers don’t post or tweet for a while, then apologize. But as is my prerogative, I’m going to make a big exception for myself. A week ago Sunday my friend Jennifer lost her beloved husband as suddenly as can be. She went to the market with one of their daughters, he went out with the other daughter to teach her how to ride her bike, and he had a massive heart attack and died.
I know I’ve lived a good deal of my life online for the past few years, but to be honest, the thought of being online felt bad. It felt wrong. I had nothing to say. I just wanted to be with people and be there for Jennifer.
But, for better or worse, eventually things get back to normal wherever possible. And I need to get back to work. The kids are home for the next few days, on a little break between the end of day camp and the beginning of sleep-away camp. Jake is playing XBox and Fiona is still asleep, and blueberry muffins are in the oven (with apologies to the foodies who were in my house last week, they’re from a mix). Life goes on.
Most of today will be spent shopping with the kids for their camp stuff. Being me, I didn’t even look at the packing list until last night. I could’ve done a lot of this online if I’d been more on top of things, but I wasn’t so I can’t. Target here we come.
I’ll also be working on a post about Jennifer. It started germinating in my head on Friday, at the wonderful memorial party she had to celebrate her husband. It will involve homework for all of you. You’ve been warned.
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Tags: camp, Jennifer Perillo
Today’s agenda: spontaneous combustion edition
Jul 21, 2011 Today's Agenda
It’s going to be hot today. How hot will it be? So hot that I will unapologetically run my ac unit all day. So hot I will drive my daughter the six blocks to day camp and back with the car’s ac blasting the whole way. So hot I will drink water (and I hate drinking water).
Jake’s camp has cancelled all of the outdoor field trips for the rest of the week. Everybody’s going to the movies instead.
I cannot believe my husband and other office workers still have to wear pants and long-sleeved shirts and ties. You’d think they could declare Bermuda-shorts-and-wife-beater day or something.
The most exertion I will have today is a twitter party. I’ll also be writing a review for the most awesome pan ever. Seriously.
Nothing else exciting today. Luckily, writing can be done inside huddled next to the ac.
Stay cool.
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