Well I am sitting at the dining room table in my brother’s house in North Carolina. It’s the first moment I’ve had to sit still! The last couple of days have been insanely hectic. Not only am I a single mom of four for the …
The moment I sat down and wrote the above I have had at least 15 calls… Most of which I ignored because there were more pressing matters. I had a call from Brenda and Crystal. Brenda was checking in but the phone battery died, and Crystal was on my cell working with me on the final changes for the site I’m working on for Shawn. I get another call but I let it go to voicemail from my nephew Jackson’s school, turns out today was his “picture day”! Crap! I had NO CLUE. I was barely even sure if the outfit I sent him to school in matched let alone was cute enough for “picture day”! ACK! I was running upstairs to grab the other phone (because the other one was dead) so I could finish talking to Brenda and find out if I should grab another outfit for Jack and bring it to him when I got a knock on the door which was Crom. Turns out my niece Amber forgot her lunch on the counter and had been trying to call but it was one of the calls I had just let go to voicemail, so I had to drop that off. Crom was nice enough to draw out directions to get to her school. This all happened in a span of 15 minutes! No joke! And there were more calls in between but I just ignored them because like I said there were more pressing matters. Hehe
So now a couple hours after I wrote the first few lines I am able to sit again. I’m impatiently waiting to download the entire site. I guess I could finish the line I was attempting to write in the beginning.
Not only am I a single mom of four for the week, I am a single *working* mom of four!!! Monday I worked on the site all day down at Assemble’s office. I worked 9 ½ hours there and then an additional 3 hours back at the house. Shawn and Brenda left Tuesday morning. I woke up Tuesday to get the kids off to school and worked in between dropping off and picking up at bus stops through out different times in the day up till 9:30 that night. Now today, Wednesday, I am sooo close to being done! I desperately want to enjoy my time with my nieces and nephews but I’ve been working so hard on the site that I don’t get to just enjoy time with them, I can only spare the necessary interaction of helping get them ready for school, breakfast-lunch-dinners and getting them ready for bed. It sucks…
So I am excited to finally be done with the initial launch. The rest of the project is not completed but since Shawn is speaking at a conference they want the new site up and running by the time the conference starts which is tomorrow morning.
I sadly have not had many opportunities to take pictures with my new camera. I take pictures of what I can but I hope to spend some time either walking in the neighborhood or driving around with the kids.
It’s been fun so far getting up and getting everyone off to school. I have been getting to bed at 11pm and waking up at 6am. I get downstairs, Sierrah and Jackson are usually already up. I make Jackson’s lunch. I usually get some help from the girls to pick out the clothes for the boys since I’m not sure who fits into what. I make Jackson’s breakfast and then go brush his teeth and fix his hair. Gabriel is up by now and I try to get him fed. Both are usually dressed by 7:05 when I walk Sierrah to her school. Amber watches the boys while I’m doing that. I get back at about 7:30 and have to make sure I have everything that Jack needs to go to school. Amber leaves at 7:40 for her bus stop and I’ve been making it out the door shortly after her with the two boys running a few strides ahead of me. Jackson and Amber’s bus’ meet in the same spot so we meet up with her. I have to buckle Jackson in his bus seat and then get back to the house by about 8:15. I have been making Gabriel come into my room so he can watch tv and I can get ready for the day. It’s been hard to start any kind of work until around 9:30. Crazy! People do this on a regular basis too! At 1:20 I need to start getting ready to make my way to pick up Sierrah from her school. Jackson’s bus comes in at 3:10. Amber makes it back to the house at about 4:30.
It’s a trip getting used to the three hour time difference. I have had a lot of calls at midnight but to my friends its only 9. hehe It always takes me a moment to realize it. People are chatting with me, telling me they are running an errand and I see it’s like 10:30 at night but it ends up only being 7:30 California time. I had a routine down in California that pretty much doesn’t work out here because of the time difference, but I’m making the best of it.
Well there is a ton going on and I really don’t have much more time to write. So hopefully tomorrow or something when the site is completed I’ll be able to write more and maybe even upload a couple pictures.
P.S. It's 1:16pm according to my computers clock. :) Not 10:16am
Labels: North Carolina
posted by Charity at 10/11/2006 10:16:00 AM 
