Day one of driving to school! We knew we had to be out the door and in the car driving by 8:10am. The main challenge with this was that I also had to have the casserole cooked and loaded into a cooler so it would stay hot, and I also wanted to get in a yoga workout and be completely showered (going back and forth between the upstairs master bathroom and the RV of course) and ready to fix them a good breakfast before we left. Everyone cooperated fairly well and we ended up driving off at 8:08! Yea for us.
It always makes me laugh that anytime I am dressed in something other than workout/training clothes one of the kids asks "why are you dressed like that?"! I got to wear "grown-up clothes" since I was going to Bible study and sure enough, Hillary asked the question :). Since that didn't start until 9:30 and I didn't really want to come all the way back home after dropping the kids off at school, I stopped at Starbucks for coffee and a little quiet time. Good thing since I had yet to find the coffee pot!
I made it back home in time to help the electrician solve a few more challenges and prepare for Girls on the Run - a program Hillary is involved in that encourages fitness/running and life skills. My fellow running friend Tiffany had asked me to help coach and even though timing is a little crazy, I have enjoyed it so much. I lead the group on Thursdays so I loaded back up and headed for St. Mark's. I tried to be super organized by packing Trace a sandwich, his water and his football gear so we wouldn't have to come back home before dropping him off in Andale for practice. This worked quite well until I realized I left his shoulder pads and helmet in the garage...forgot to go back for that second load. Oh well! Fortunately we had enough time and even got him there a few minutes early.
One of our challenges tonight was to find the DirecTV receivers since they are coming to hook up our satellite/tv's tomorrow. After searching for an hour, John walked through the front room where there were only two boxes...and one was labeled "tv boxes". Yep...right there where we had walked all day long!
Two more challenges...finding the coffee pot and the sets of 8- and 10-lb. weights for my workout tomorrow morning. So while John dug through a box in the garage that we suspected had been visited by a mouse (yes, they are combining all around us which sends the field mice running), I searched for the coffee pot box. I had packed it myself and I knew I had seen it. As I rounded the first corner of boxes for the umpteenth time, there it was!! Coffee pot...ahhhhh.
We quickly found the weights - they were stacked under a box of other weights. As we lifted the heavy box off the stack, a 10-pounder came tumbling down...right onto John's foot. 10lbs. may not feel like it's terribly heavy when doing shoulder presses, but when it hits your foot - yes, it's heavy! After bringing the cat into the garage to hunt down potential rodents, we went to bed!
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