From Toddlers2Teens

For the past couple of weeks I have been lackadaisical about planning and organizing my weeks. I normally update my planner to include my appointments and action items, but I hadn’t gotten around to it. So, this past Monday I made sure to write down everything I needed to do including errands and phone calls.

I was pretty confident that I was organized to begin my errands on Tuesday. My goal was to put my 4-year-old daughter on the pre-kindergarten list and sign my 5-year-old son up for kindergarten. I got a little turned around while driving, but finally made it to my location, which I had verified on the Internet sometime last week.

Once I got into our county’s family services center, I told the lady what I was there for. She informed me that I had to go to my son’s home school to register him and gave me a flyer with all the information. I was a little baffled because some very stupid informed parents told me that registration is at the center the same as for pre-kindergarten and not at the home school.

The family service lady told me that I could sign in to put my daughter on the pre-k list as long as I had her original birth certificate to prove her age. (Guess a lot of people lie about that… it’s not like I’m registering, I’m just putting her on a lottery list. Geez.) Well, I didn’t have her birth certificate, I only had my son’s. And, guess what else? The deadline to register is this Friday.

So that’s one errand not accomplished and gas money wasted!

I eventually go to my son’s home school because those same idiotparents told me it had to be done in March. Although I had the flyer I only glimpsed at it. When I got to the school, which is close to my house, I was told they don’t begin registration until May. Once again I had a “huh” look on my face.

“Oh, they gave me a paper…” and I trailed off as I glanced at it. The paper said May. I thought it said March because of what those same parents had said.

 Something else unaccomplished and I also felt like a complete idiot!

I had the feeling that as I walked away everyone in the office was saying, “Awww, poor eager young parent…” and laughing. What they don’t know is I am an approaching middle aged parent who has an overly full plate.

That was just the beginning… I’m not going to bore you with all of my time-wasting tasks; let’s just say I felt like I had wasted the entire day. I guess all is not lost since I did get my daughter on the list yesterday and I made a note in my planner to sign up my son on the first day of registration.

As the week has progressed, I have accomplished a few things and I will continue to figure out how to get more completed each day.

How’s your week been going?

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