It's Official: I'm Senile!

Monday evenings, Ryan has soccer and Robin has Daisy Girl Scouts (every other week). Usually, Meg goes with Ryan and I go with Robin. Tonight, I glanced at the paper that had Daisy events on it and somehow, in my feeblemindedness, missed the part that the meeting was to be at a fellow Scout's farm. WE went to the library. Hmmm...absolutely no one showed up. Thus, we left and went to what remained of Ry's soccer game. When we got home, I looked at the activity paper again. Oops! Poor Robin missed out on a happy activity because I couldn't keep things straight!

What upsets me about it is that I didn't only mess up the activity date, I had it all confused in my mind. Weeks ago, when I was reading over the activities with Meg, I had the impression that the farm deal was on a weekend and that Meg nixed it because the kids would be in Muncie. I can remember thinking that it wasn't fair because the activity had a Brownie Try-It application...and that Robin should be there for that. But noooo...it was an entirely different event that was nixed. At issue, I think, is that we are trying to keep track of all kinds of schedules around here. There is homework, of course, with various demands and deadlines. (The Invention Convention; Reading Railroad Reading Festival, Family Fun Night, school pictures, Market Day orders, yearbook orders, what day to wear what kind of clothes to emphasize a letter of the alphabet, etc.) Times two. Then soccer and Girl Scouts. And Meg's class assignment deadlines. And mine. We try...we really do! There are just a lot of opportunities for things to fall between the cracks due to "momnesia". And, apparently, senility!

Ryan got three goals and assisted in several more. Yay, Ryan!

I got a happy surprise today when I went to pick up the children from Grandma Judy's. They met me at the door with hugs, bookbags already in hand, and went immmediately to the car. No fights. No pouting. No throwing fits. No having to chase them to get them rounded up. Huh?? I looked at Judy and said, "What did you do??" She said they had been like that all day. The Happy Fairy waved her magic wand, I guess! I could sure take a lot more of that!

We are administering yet another round of ISTEP testing at school this week. ISTEP is Indiana's competency test, usually administered in the fall. Since its inception, teachers have griped about the early testing (in September) because it dictates that the first six weeks of school are spent in preparation...so the legislature finally voted to move it to the spring this year. Thus, we had our usual fall testing (taking most of a week), then we've done another round this spring--one part in March and the other now. The tally, then, is six weeks of prep for the first round, and three weeks spent on actual testing. Yeah...now let's talk about how poorly schools are doing! I shouldn't even go there. It makes me angry when I get started on the subject. But you know what? I'm so "short" that I don't care anymore!

Meg and I got the new kitchen flooring ordered on Sunday. When it comes in, we will schedule the installation. God help us...yet another couple of days of total discomboberation to add to the mess around here!