Mom's Taxi – Back in Business

Not sure how many miles I put on tonight.  I was late leaving the office so straight to school to pick up Grace after Drivers Ed.  Spent a few extra minutes there while she tried to get back into the school to pick up the papers she forgot in the room – of course they had to be signed and taken back tomorrow.  So after wild gestures to someone in the upstairs stairwell, she got back in and retrieved the papers. 

Sara, meanwhile, was home making Taco salad –  we only had to stop and pick up the Nacho chips and Taco sauce for her on our way home from the school.  Arrived at the store and of course Grace thought of several things she had to get to make her lunch for tomorrow.  Spent a few more minutes getting all the stuff.

Finally got home and had supper.

Then the chauffering request.  “Please can I go up to S’s?”  Since S lives halfway across the city that can be translated as “Can you drive me to S’s”  Since I already knew I had some errands to run, that was OK by me – homework was done.  So off we went.  Didn’t get all my errands done and back home till 9:30.  Fifteen minutes later Sara called for a ride home.  Can’t really complain since she knew she had to be home by 10:00 and so she was making sure she was not overstepping her curfew.  It just would have been nice to spend more than 15 minutes at home just then.  I barely had time to return some phone calls between runs.

I’m afraid the school year has begun!  I already have my evening planned around places I have to drive tomorrow night.  And Saturday morning I won’t even get to sleep in – both girls have to be at school by 6:00 am to go play soccer in Munster.