Tomorrow is a day off – one of those vaguely defined holidays like “teachers’ institute” or something like that, so today, my childrens’ schools held their Valentine’s Day Parties.
Which meant my limited time as a working mother became a bit more pinched. Aidan needed 20 cards; Lindsey needed 48 cards and Nora needed 29 cards for their classes (Lindsey & Nora go to full day montessori, but the day is broken down into two half-day classes, with different students, thus many many cards needed to be signed by new writers.)
I realized yesterday that I didn’t have near enough Valentine cards to cover all the students in Lindsey’s morning AND afternoon classes. So when Aidan was at swim practice, Lindsey, Nora and I raced over to Target to get some more.
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