Shuttle Service

It's summer time. I'm supposed to be off. I am a teacher, after all. Now all teachers know we don't REALLY get the whole summer off, but we do get a few weeks. I'm supposed to be playing in the sun. Right? Not driving to school. Right? Home with my dear children. Right? Oh, no - that's not the life for me. I'm a shuttle service for two teenage daughters who are not yet old enough to shuttle themselves, but definitely old enough to have very active lives! And I live in the Looniverse so things have to be a little crazy.

I made five (count 'em FIVE) trips to Cedar Park and back today. That's about 30-35 minutes per trip! I don't worry about the mileage/gas too much; that's one reason why I drive a MINI. At 6:15 I left the house to go to CP to take Daughter B to swim practice. At 7:15 I left for the second time to take Daughter A to cross country practice. At 9:00 I brought DB home in case some friends who were coming over to swim got here before XC practice was over because they were doing a longer workout today. I immediately headed back to Cedar Park to wait for DA just in case they did get done on time. By 10:15 we were home. At 2:30 DA wanted to go hang out with some friends at the park/pool where DB had practice at 6:30 this morning, so off we went. At 5:15 I left to pick her up again. There they are six trips... And in the middle I cleaned some cabinets, worked in my classroom, enjoyed the company of friends in the pool, cleaned some more cabinets, went to the bank, did some laundry, watched half of a really good movie, and fixed supper. Not bad for a crazy day. :-)

Now, I don't want to sound like I'm complaining. I chose to take a job in Cedar Park and to put my kids in school there to get them out of the middle school and high school they are zoned for, and I'm glad I made the decision and will stick by it. But five trips? Seriously, girls...you need to coordinate a little better!