One look at my planning calendar told me that this week was going to be busy. There were scheduled events for all seven days, in addition to the launch of our new site and video, and the usual job search and housecleaning tasks. But even my planner didn't prepare me for this week.
It actually started before Monday (the start of my planning week); William had been at a friend's house to practice a magic act they are doing together for the school variety show. William was a little out of sorts that evening, because he was getting sick. No school Monday or, as it turned out, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday either.
That took the Monday Den meeting off the calendar, and William is an easy patient to look after, so I got a fair amount done. Tuesday was supposed to be a night out for the family for Valentine's Day. We took William to the doctor Tuesday because his cough didn't sound too good and we wanted to make sure his lungs were clear. Good news: they were. Bad news: he was still too sick to go out to dinner. Worse news: we got a call while we were out that Danny was in the nurses office feeling lousy.
So for the rest of Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, I had both boys. But William was well enough Thursday night to attend the monthly Book Talk Club. Good thing, too, because despite the poor turnout (basketball conflict), it was a wonderful meeting and William and I enjoyed it very much.
The boys went back to school Friday, but Danny's school was having a winter fun day at the local ski area, and he just didn't have enough energy for it. So I had to go pick him up. Tom looked after him and William (after William came home on the bus), while I went out to dinner with Karen (which is often scheduled Friday around taking trash to the dump and paying money toward property taxes).
But although my two boys are pretty good about taking care of themselves when they are sick, it still takes up a fair amount of time. Despite that, I managed to put up a video for Karen's site, and set up Twitter and Facebook accounts to help promote it. (As I write this, the video has been viewed more than 125 times; not bad for the first video in the first week.)
Saturday was the Pinewood Derby. We did surprisingly well, considering that a great deal of the work on the cars, including all of the work on the vital axles and wheels, was done that same morning. William came in third in his Den, which means he gets to make his third visit to the district race. Daniel didn't show in his Den, but his car was right there in the pack, and I think it might have actually been faster than William's (the Pack has a new track with a display that shows that actual race time to the nearest millisecond; William's Den, the oldest group, had the slowest times overall, and none of them made the top three).
Today we attended a birthday party for the son of one of Karen's friends and coworkers. All of the other children were younger than William and Daniel, but they had a good time and were very helpful with the younger kids. The party was at a place with bounce houses and climbing walls and cars to scoot around an indoor track. So the boys are exhausted tonight.
And so am I. But no rest for the weary. Yet. I have some photography to do, and probably some scanning. All in preparation for production on our next or two new videos, which we are trying to release for the 1st of March, and which we start shooting on Tuesday.
Without, I hope, any children in the house.
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