Oh my! Where do I even begin? August must have really, really wanted to serve me a slice of humble pie because things certainly got piled on. Things got crazy, but I think I got everything handled and on track, despite the major toll the stress of these things can take on oneself.
As if starting kindergarten wasn’t hard enough, here’s what happened: 3 toilets leaked and caused a $600 water bill, then they caused a $400 water bill (so now we’re looking at installments to the tune of $950+ for next year+?), the microwave died, the AC was almost set on fire and was subsequently off for the hottest week of the summer, Sammy tried to push the temporary window units out so he could jump out of the second story windows multiple times during the no air conditioning week, kid got sick, I got a nasty case of food poisoning the day before the AC was blown, the kid brought home a nasty head cold that EVERYONE CAUGHT (and is currently fighting), and finally, our janky McGyver fridge got fixed (!!!! I’m so F”$*(*&%(*%!!!! tired of cutting my fingers on the damn door! OWW!).
What didn’t happen: nobody died.
Mission accomplished!
Now if I can get the family situated on a happy routine that has me ingesting caffeine BEFORE driving to the drop off lane every morning at 8am, things would be totally ok and I could absolutely handle them. Haha! It can get extremely chaotic trying to juggle this immense new stress load that is even crazier than preschool. I’ve never been good at dealing with mornings and this drop off lane bs starts half an hour before school begins….. I need virtual sanity asap! Luckily I’m prepared for the worst, as always. So long as there are no zombies, I can handle pretty much any situation and then make it safely home to cry it out. So I might have to deal with driving with ceramic mugs of hot tea to take the Spawn to school 5 days a week, looks like I better be extra careful because we cannot spare a single expense right now. All of these child free hours on my hands for the next 9 months are going to be spent pulling metaphorical pornography rabbits out of my ass!
Wish me luck! ;P