February Break

Last week, we found ourselves completely without activities.

Because, for some reason, the New York school system thinks that kids need to have a week off in order to appropriately celebrate President's Day. Or something.

Not only did Emily not have preschool on Tuesday and Thursday, but the girls also had no swimming classes or Little Gym (I was wondering how long it would take the powers-that-be at TLG to figure out that camps and such would be handy during school breaks. They've caught on.).

We did OK entertaining ourselves through the break, mostly due to the never ending sickness that darkened our door again. We also spent some time at Miss Courtney's house.

I was in the grocery store on Saturday and overheard two moms discussing how fast the week off went by for them and how they had hoped to accomplish so many things, but for lack of time didn't get done. And I had to laugh. Because the week seemed like it would never end. It stretched in front of me and I thought there must be at least two weeks before the girls would resume their activities.

Yesterday was the first official "back to school" day, but Emily was still with me, since she only goes to school on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We went to a local pizzeria and learned how to make pizza and then had lunch at Courtney's house.

Today, my mom picked Lucy up to go to swimming and TLG and Courtney took Emily to preschool, leaving me all by my lonesome to do some VERY necessary grocery shopping.

I was realizing as I drove back that I was really missing my girls. We spent so much time together over the past week that it felt very strange not to have them with me. And from the running leap Emily took at me when I picked her up from preschool, I think the feeling was mutual.

I'm pretty sure that is the definition of irony.