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03/02/2005 Archived Entry: "one of those days"

This is has been one of those days. The kind where I had to choose between eating or getting dressed because I knew I had approx. 10 minutes before that child of mine demanded to be held. She was not letting me put her down at all. I wouldn't mind except today is a day where I had to get things done. Otherwise, some people in this house were going to have to start being naked and someone else was going to have to wear a towel for a diaper. She's finally taking a nap in the bouncer and I've managed to get dressed and eat, woo-hoo! Tabs and I even started lessons. She got to shop in the Mom Store today and finally bought herself a book she's been wanting for a while now. It's called 5 Minute Princess Stories and she's already finished it, of course. Thankfully, a shipment from our book club showed up yesterday so she has books 4, 5 and 6 in the Unfortunate Events series. I also ordered a couple books with science experiments. One that focuses on more traditional experiments and the other has activities based on nature. I look forward to getting into them, but realistically, I know we won't for a couple weeks while we're waiting for things to settle down.
It's March which means it's time for me to get blood from a stone and find a way to gather a few hundred dollars to pay for all of Tabitha's summer classes. Why they all have to hit at once, I don't know. She'll definitely take one at the Natural History Museum, as always, but she'd actually like to take two. Plus there's one at the Science Center I think she'd enjoy and I'm open to Zoo Camp again, depending on what they offer. We passed on them last year because they doubled the cost and extended the hours and there was no way I was sending my 5 year old to a 6 hour class. I won't do that this year either, so we'll only do Zoo Camp if they've reverted back to their old program. I haven't even gone into the fact that we are making that kid take swimming lessons no matter what. She's not happy about it, but we live in Southern California and there is a pool in our backyard for goodness sake! Okay, so the pool isn't actually swimmable, but that's not really the point. She needs to learn and that's all there is to it. We're going to pony up for semi-private lessons. They are pretty far away, but they will be worth it I think. I had a bribery all set up when I told her about swim lessons, but we never reached that point in the discussion before she sort of agreed to them.
So last night we guaranteed our spot in the indulgent parents' hall of fame. Our child now has her own cell phone. Since she takes so many drop-off classes and I can't exactly wait in the parking lot anymore due to the baby, I decided I would feel more comfortable if she had a phone. So we stopped at the T-Mobile booth last night and by extending our contract for one year, we got one of those free phone deals. We already have a family plan and share minutes so it adds just a negligible amount to our monthly fee. The child keeps saying "I'm so excited I got my own phone!" and wants to go shopping for cases immediately. She and Chris will play around with the ring tone downloads sometime today or tomorrow, most likely. It gives me great peace of mind to know she can get ahold of either of us at any time.