I have realized that I now have an unpaid second job: I am a chauffer for my children. I drive my children places, I wait 60 to 90 minutes, then I drive them home. I have been doing this for a while, but the number of days seems to have increased, especially right now. Monday is football practice. Tuesday is Boy Scouts. Wednesday is football practice. Thursday is Cub Scouts. Friday, I lay exhausted on the sofa.
That means that four days a week, I rush home, prepare and feed my family, then dash back into town for my chauffeuring duty, then come home around 8 or 9pm. Those are some long days. The only good part is that for the 60 to 90 minute wait, I usually get to knit. Sometimes, I go to my office or run errands, but sometimes I knit during Scouts, and I always watch the football practice and knit.
That is a lot of scheduled knitting time a week, and that is a lot of the progress that I have been able to make on my deadlines. The hat is pretty much done, I just need to weave in the ends. The Court hearing is next week, so that is a reasonable deadline. I want to baby blanket to be a little bigger, maybe two more rounds, but really I can end it at any time. Mandy is due at the end of the month, so that one is still a bit of a worry.
I only have one and a half mitts in progress/completed, but that deadline isn't until mid-December, the latest deadline of the bunch. So I am just postponing the worrying.
Today, it is all about the Mom's second job.
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