After much anticipation

I have a job. whoo hoo. I think.

I've been interviewing preschools and checking out the after school program and I'm really hoping that traffic is never bad because to get from work to daycare to aftercare just *might* be a challenge.

Anyway.. I need things like external deadlines to keep me motivated. Nothing like a drop-dead-out-the door and running deadline to get to daycare before they charge $1/minute and threaten to call the police on you. "I'm sorry Mrs. Patient, I know you're crying and distraught and need to be seen and all your problems solved, but we're going to have much bigger problems if I don't get out the door at 5, can we continue this conversation, say, tomorrow am. I'll block out an hour for you."

Anyway, we'll see how it goes.

And now we return you to our regularly scheduled program of trying to get kids to do homework while fixing dinner and wondering how the house can look like a cyclone ran through it within 30 minutes of school ending. I think they must wear 2 or 3 pairs of shoes to school or something because as soon as they get home, there are 2 or 3 pair of shoes per kid all over the floor... or they have 4 or 6 feet.. that should have been something I noticed when they were born... maybe it's an after toddlerhood feature they develop?? It would explain a few things- like the fact that one of my kids actually does have 2 left feet....