Getting from point A to B is a simple process. You can fly in an airplane, drive a car, walk, ride a bike, skateboard or scooter, take public transportation, etc. What makes this simple? You do a little research, figure out the best solution to land at your end destination, and lastly make it happen. However, when kids enter the equation, it complicates everything and this has nothing to do with being blind.
My morning: Ari decided to give us the beautiful gift of sleeping in this morning until 7:20 a.m. I thought my eyes were playing trips on me when I looked at the clock. I fell into my morning routine and realized Noah was still slumbering away and it was 8 a.m. My fabulous gift was now a thing of the past because I needed to give all my brainpower to strategically figure out how to get everyone from point A to B. The clock was ticking and time was running out.
First, I decided to be realistic and recognize there was no way in hell that Noah was making it to school on time unless I could throw him in a car. This was not an option for three reasons. It was a typical foggy San Francisco day; Ron takes the car to work; and I’m not really driving these days.
While the strategic plan was evolving in my head, it looked really messy. I continued to plow through the morning routine:
* Got everyone dressed
* Made breakfast
* Made sure everyone actually ate
* Put Noah on the potty for his morning business
* Made lunches
* Packed Ari’s bag for the nanny share
* Packed my computer bag for my afternoon meeting
* Remembered last minute it was “Sharing Day” in Noah’s class and he needed to bring something he got on vacation to share. Good thing I jogged the memory for this or else I’d be put on the “worst mommy” of the day list.
Finally, I stop and looked at my watch. Oops…it’s 9:10 a.m. and Noah starts school at 9 a.m. Walking is no longer a valid option, which screws up everything. How was I going to get everything that needed to be transported (Noah, Ari, double stroller for nanny share, Noah’s lunch box, Ari’s bag, my bag, and a box of work files) from A to B? My solution was take two trips. It was by no means efficient, but decided to take the path of least resistance.
Next, I throw a little money at the situation. I call a cab and not soon after a cab/SUV pulls up. I realize this could be the complete answer to my dilemma this morning instead of one piece of the solution. However, it required me jumping off my current course and going back inside to retrieve everything listed above to throw in the taxi. I was exhausted thinking about loading everything into the taxi and navigating two kids. I stayed on course and piled us all in the taxi.
Sigh…we are on our way to school, but now what. I call school, explained the situation, and asked if they would meet me at the side door to take Noah to class while the cab waited for me. I am sure this was an unorthodox request for them, but they were more than happy to help.
When Ari and I returned home, to our surprise, we found that Ron had not left for work. This worked in my favor, because he could drop Ari and I off at the nanny share on his way to work. It saved me a 20 minute walk with a bogged down stroller!
Ari is delivered to his final destination and I head to my meeting. I am 45 minutes early, which never happens. I am feeling quite proud having navigating quite a morning. I’m enjoying the quite morning hum in the coffee shop and writing this blog entry when my phone rings. It is the preschool to inform me that Noah has 102 fever. Wow…I moved mountains (or what felt like mountains) to get Noah to school this morning only to pick him up an hour and half later. If I had a received the morning memo that he was going to be sick, I would have left him in bed!
It is now almost two weeks later that I am finishing this post, because Noah ended up having a fever for six days. It resulted in three trips to the doctor and numerous tests with no “real” diagnosis. It was a virus!
Guess what! Ari woke up this morning with a fever. The fun starts all over again tomorrow morning as I navigate getting from point A to B with one sick kid, one healthy kid that needs to get to school, no car, etc. I’ll make a plan and obliterate about 10 times before choosing one that works for that moment in time. If the moment escapes us, we will probably need a new plan. I don’t know about you, but I am exhausted just thinking about tomorrow morning. Good night!
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