Full Week Ahead!

I'm a little nervous tonight.  After a week and a half of kids on vacation and a shortened school week after, we are heading into a full-blown five-day week.  All the pieces of a real school week, plus the added challenges of new play rehearsals, a few hard tests, and a Friday with five events on the calendar.  And all of that is outside of any job related interactions, interviews, or bookings.  I'm trying not to be exhausted already.

I used to spend a chunk of Sunday typing a detailed email outlining the week's activities for our babysitters, then replying when they asked for clarification (or more often, reminded me of things I'd forgotten).  There was something very comforting about having "members of my team" for the week's adventures.  If they believed all the transporting, however complicated, was possible, then I could believe that too.  These days, I am a captain without a crew, here now, doing each day's transport, but without a crew to celebrate with me when it works and help swab the deck when it doesn't. This is, by no means, a new situation this week, but after a few weeks of slower seas, this captain's just a little worried about rough waters.  Will we really be able to keep up with all the commitments we've made?  Will we get places on time and have time for homework too?  Will this be the week that does us all in?

More likely, it will come and go quickly, just as so many weeks have before and so many will after.  We will quickly forget that 5 days is long.  We will do what needs to be done to get everyone everywhere on time AND home again at the end of each day. And at week's end, we will celebrate AND swab the deck with each other, because that's what families do.

And then, maybe we'll all collapse until the next full week begins.