Excruciatingly long day.
Like most Tuesdays, we headed into the nursing home this morning. Our visit went as most visits do...a little snuggling on the beds (Hoocher, not me), a few hand-outs (Hoocher, although I wouldn't say no), trying to avoid looking at the gob of mucus smeared in a resident's hair, and having one of the Alzheimer patients ask me to bring her a beer next week. She's a hearty German gal and misses her stout apparently.
After leaving the nursing home, we went to pick up one of The Senator's preschool buddies. Normally, having a friend over is a fairly low-maintenance affair, but today was a different story. Those two boys managed to dig out every aging toy that hadn't seen the light of day in months and was in need of fresh batteries. I felt like some sort of Toys 'R' Us surgeon wielding my miniature Phillips head screwdriver and performing Rayovac transplants.
After a full afternoon of hard play, we headed into the local elementary school for Kindergarten Round-Up. The Senator managed to succinctly predict all future school administrative speeches when, during the principal's welcoming words, he leaned over and said, "Mom, this is so boring!"
He hung in through the introduction of teaching and office staff, and perked up when he got to take a ride on the school bus. Visiting the classrooms was tolerable, and eating a cookie in the cafeteria with his preschool buddy was the highlight of the whole experience. Just before he went to bed, he said, "Mom, can you believe I'm going to be in Kindergarten?" I would have answered if I could have stopped crying.
Tonight we tooks the boys on some 4-wheeler rides through the woods and fields. If you're not from Minnesota, you may not understand how vital it is to suck every bit of life out of these few weeks when the weather is warm but the mosquitoes have not hatched. We will be living outdoors until the woods are alive with the hum of those blood-thirsty bastards.
Everyone else is in bed; time to drag my tired bottom out of this chair and join them. Although I could just put my head down on my arms..z...z...zzz....zzzz...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted by Cathy at April 6, 2004 11:00 PM