So this year since I'm working part time and can make it to pick up the girls from school every day I've gone overboard and signed them up for a ton of activities. S has ballet on Monday, they both have ice skating on Tuesday, and then S has English, and Wednesday they have swimming, Thursday A has ballet and then she has English. Friday is the only free day (Hallelujah!). From January they will have skiing on Sunday additionally!!!
Ok ice skating and swimming is something I am very keen on for the girls to learn and touchwood they are progressing well. My aim and hope is that by next year we as a family can go swim and go ice skate. This year when we were in Corsica in the summer we had a lovely experience snorkeling but A was uncomfortable in the water in the life vest and she doesn't swim so she could not remove the life vest, so she sat on the boat while the rest of us were snorkelling. Similarly with ice skating, last year S and her cousins could all enjoy ice skating at the Millenium Park in Chicago but A had to sit out.
So these two activities are for me really :)
The ballet lessons are really fun lessons and in S case all her friends in school go for the lesson and it is straight after school so its like her fun activity and a threat from me to cancel her ballet class always works!
A has her best friend with her in her ballet class so she also enjoys it. She learned last year as well and was really proud to perform on stage so I continued it this year.
But the sum of all the activities makes me a very tired and cranky person. My day's schedule is crazy.
Up at 6 am to get the girls lunch and school bags organised. Crazy rush to get everyone ready and out of the house by 7:45 am. Drop them at the bus stop and off to work, Work non stop (lunch at my desk) till 2:30 pm and then drive to the girls school to make it there by 3:15 for the pick up. Then one of these wonderful activities and by the time we get back home its usually 6 pm. Then make their dinner, empty their bags, do the dishes, shout at them to eat their dinner, bath, story time, bed time and its already 9 pm!! I can finally put my feet up at 9 pm, but I'm so exhausted by then that none of the other housework gets done. Our suitcases took a month to get unpacked from the latest trip, the guest room is full of laundry and the house is quite a mess.
But never mind, I am loving it. I am happy that I can continue working and still spend time with the girls. I am eating much more healthy since the hubby and I have time over the weekends to cook a ton of food for the week and once or twice during the week I can whip up something quickly. And I am finally back to exercising. I try to squeeze in a couple of days during the week (when we are home early from ballet, or one of the girls has their English lesson) and once during the weekend. Am happy to say I am upto running 8 km over 52 mins (my best) and next week I've asked one of the moms at school to run on the road with me to see if I can venture to sign up for the 10 km run during the Zurich marathon in April.
Ok ice skating and swimming is something I am very keen on for the girls to learn and touchwood they are progressing well. My aim and hope is that by next year we as a family can go swim and go ice skate. This year when we were in Corsica in the summer we had a lovely experience snorkeling but A was uncomfortable in the water in the life vest and she doesn't swim so she could not remove the life vest, so she sat on the boat while the rest of us were snorkelling. Similarly with ice skating, last year S and her cousins could all enjoy ice skating at the Millenium Park in Chicago but A had to sit out.
So these two activities are for me really :)
The ballet lessons are really fun lessons and in S case all her friends in school go for the lesson and it is straight after school so its like her fun activity and a threat from me to cancel her ballet class always works!
A has her best friend with her in her ballet class so she also enjoys it. She learned last year as well and was really proud to perform on stage so I continued it this year.
But the sum of all the activities makes me a very tired and cranky person. My day's schedule is crazy.
Up at 6 am to get the girls lunch and school bags organised. Crazy rush to get everyone ready and out of the house by 7:45 am. Drop them at the bus stop and off to work, Work non stop (lunch at my desk) till 2:30 pm and then drive to the girls school to make it there by 3:15 for the pick up. Then one of these wonderful activities and by the time we get back home its usually 6 pm. Then make their dinner, empty their bags, do the dishes, shout at them to eat their dinner, bath, story time, bed time and its already 9 pm!! I can finally put my feet up at 9 pm, but I'm so exhausted by then that none of the other housework gets done. Our suitcases took a month to get unpacked from the latest trip, the guest room is full of laundry and the house is quite a mess.
But never mind, I am loving it. I am happy that I can continue working and still spend time with the girls. I am eating much more healthy since the hubby and I have time over the weekends to cook a ton of food for the week and once or twice during the week I can whip up something quickly. And I am finally back to exercising. I try to squeeze in a couple of days during the week (when we are home early from ballet, or one of the girls has their English lesson) and once during the weekend. Am happy to say I am upto running 8 km over 52 mins (my best) and next week I've asked one of the moms at school to run on the road with me to see if I can venture to sign up for the 10 km run during the Zurich marathon in April.
