A Typical Tuesday

I decided to make a list of the things I had to do on a Tuesday. These are just what I can remember. I'm sure I forgot things. This is proof that life doesn't get easier as kid get older. It just gets different.

• Get up and decide to do chickens and ducks so that the girls can sleep in (chickens) and because Isaac is working (ducks).
  
• Receive a text from Sidge that he has Leadership Team today. But we don't have a car for him due to our Expedition being broken. 
• Text piano/voice teacher to change Isaac's lesson to Wednesday so Sidge can use car when Isaac gets off work.
• Text Isaac to tell him his voice is changed to Wednesday at 2pm.
• Receive return text from Isaac with reminder that he works until 3p.
• Text piano/voice teacher back and change Isaac's lesson to piggyback off piano lesson on Thursday. 
• Text Isaac to tell him his lesson is now changed to Thursday.
• Play a game of Wingspan with JB before he leaves for Knoxville with Abigail. He has to run an errand there and decides to take Abigail with him for company.
• Text Aunt Hannah and get Pomegranate to their house via John for school that day since I don't have a car to take her. 
  
• Receive text from Isaac saying that he needs proof of education for his job. (He has to prove he is not a truant.)
• Go on Homelife Academy (our umbrella school for homeschooling) to request proof of education. Decide not to do the expedited for $15 and just do the regular request.
• Work with Sidge to set up a new sheep paddock. 
• Realize that with the change in Isaac's voice lesson, he can't bring the four dozen eggs I had put in his car in a cooler to egg people by 2:30 now.
• Text two egg customers and give them new pick-up location for eggs. It will be 6p at ballet when Sidge gets there for karate (after his leadership meeting)
• Have to go out and get eggs from the chickens a bit early because another customer is stopping by the house at noon for eggs. She wants six dozen. I have only five dozen in fridge so need to go wrangle up a sixth dozen. 
• Remember to feed the dogs their breakfast (it's now nearly lunchtime.)
  
• Discuss with Grama and JB how to handle the fact that we have to bring my Ford Expedition to the shop on Monday (while we are in Costa Rica.) Our original plan had been to leave my Expedition at the airport. But we can't do that now because it has to go to the shop while we are gone. And it is not driving right so we don't want to take it to the Tri-Cities airport. 
• Decide to book a hotel for Saturday evening at the airport so someone can bring John and I there on Saturday night instead of having to find someone to take us at 4am on Sunday morning.
• Wash eggs that are on the counter and get them all packaged up.
• Spend a lot of the day trying to get "Old Fred Bob" (our remote-control vacuum) to work. He is having a lot of issues and causes me frustration. 
• Communicate with new person who cleaned the Bonnie Blue to make sure all went well with her in cleaning.
  
• Write a Dedication for the yearbook. Text it to multiple people to get quotes and make sure it sounds good. 
• Work on multiple returns/receipts of clothing both for myself and Abigail. Regret ordering things from multiple places at the same time as figuring out returns gets very confusing. 
• Complete Bible Study lecture.
• Complete Bible Study notes. 
• Grade papers.
• Get both boys' grades up-to-date in Homelife Academy so that they can register for College classes in the summer/fall. 
  
• Work to make sure my British Literature class will be covered while I am in Costa Rica. 
• Get out my suitcase and begin lightly packing for Costa Rica. 
• Rotate laundry.  
• Text Tammy Bowlin to let her know that I don't think Isaac will be able to stay on Leadership Team at Heritage with his new job.
  
• Make Hungry root for lunch for Sidge and I. Realize he's already making something else when I start, but he decides to eat my lunch too.
  
• Read my Ann Voskamp book on Marco Polo for the groups I run.
• Send reminders to everyone for parents' meeting we are having with Kim via zoom at 6:30 on Wednesday evening. 
  
• Isaac asks me around dinner time if I have that proof of education. I tell him that it will take five business days. He informs me he needs it within 48 hours or he could lose his job. 
  
• (Get frustrated at Isaac for not telling me this detail earlier.)
• Text Aliceson Bales to figure out how to get him education proof earlier.
• Find another page on Homelife Academy that says he is not truant. Print that.
• Nervous about not having "official proof" so I go back onto website and resubmit request and do the $15 expedited. 
• John comes home and we play another game of Wingpsan :)
• I get a text from Jenny asking if John has filled out her medical form from Rabies Shots she had to have. He has not. Find form, get him to fill it out, and communicate with Jenny when I can get her the form. 
• Clean up the kitchen.
  
• Take Abigail and Isaac up to town at 5:15p for ballet and theatre. 
• Drop them off in town at 5:45p.
• Pick Pomegranate up at 5:45p.
• Correspond with multiple people via Marco Polo throughout the day as time permits. 
  
• Add three dozen duck eggs to the cooler Sidge has brought to karate with eggs in it. 
  
• Take Pomegranate to the Dunhams to do grammar with Zach.
• Run out to Hobby Lobby with the Poemgranate. Looking for wax paper (successful!) and Dura-Lar. Hobby Lobby has never heard of Dura-Lar. She has a Lapbook project she needs it for and somehow we accidentally threw away the sheet they gave us. 
• Buy a shelf for our bathroom too.
• Hop in the truck and zip across the parking lot to Tractor Supply. Grab Dog food and treats so the dogs will be adequately cared for while we are gone. 
  
• Order Dura-Lar on Amazon when I get home that evening. 
• Return to ballet studio to drop Pomegranate off for Jazz class with Abigail who is already there from her previous class. 
• Quickly grab cash from ATM to pay Gramps for work he has done at the Bonnie Blue and with our rental camper.  
• Text with a friend who wants us to adopt one of her chickens who is actually a rooster, but they live in town and can't have roosters and tell her I don't want her rooster. :) 
• Track down a t-shirt I was supposed to pick-up from someone.
  
• Text Patty and find a time we can get together in May when she is in town.
  
• Sit in truck and do some school work while they are in Jazz class. 
• Have quick conversation with LoriAnn while I am sitting there. 
• Text with Anni. I can't let her use truck in the next few days as planned because we are down a car and struggling to figure out where everyone is going when. 
  
• Isaac gets out of theatre at 8p and walks over to where I am waiting and gets in the truck.
• Girls get out at 8:30p.
• On the way home, try to figure out how we are going to work the absence of a vehicle on Wednesday. 
• Randomly make myself a little dinner. Let kids pick and find something to eat. 
• Text with a friend about her role in a show and tell her how proud I am of her. (Way to go Rachel!)
• Try to figure out a single person to take to a dinner we purchased a table for. 
• Reminder that you need to purchase that table. 
  
• Discuss whether kids can go to a bonfire on Saturday evening -- the night before we leave on our trip.