New SCHOOL Year Resolutions

What a week! It was the first week of Savannah's school and it has been a crazy one! Here she is after school Tuesday. It's the first year they are wearing uniforms and I wasn't so sure but I am really starting to love them!

I started writing this post called New SCHOOL year Resolutions about how we were going to stay on track, be super organized and be ON TIME --- I don't know how many times I checked Savannah in last year, but I'm pretty sure it was circled on her report card. I blame having

1. A hospital stay the first week.
2. a new baby the third week
3. Aforementioned baby in the NICU for a month
4. getting used to 2 babies in the morning trying to help Savannah get ready for school.

I can't really blame that anymore but it looks like the fates are giving me other excuses.
Day 1, Monday, was perfect. She had a great day and loved it! Day 2 we were all loaded up(see this post.) crank the Truck and... nothing. It's dead. The battery is dead! I have another car, a Lincoln LS that we are trying to sell because my fam has outgrown it. I try not to drive it much because we will get it dirty but yay for me having it this week! So just like in the post you went back and read ;) we change out carseats, go find keys, get ready to take Lincoln :( only we have to drive through the median and out the neighbors driveway to get my car-which is parked ahead of the Expedition --out of the driveway. make sense? That would still be OK if my neighbor didn't park her car right where I would need to get out while she went inside to get something. It's her driveway I get it. But not good timing. So on this 2nd day of school I am already checking Savannah in.
I am awesome though and didn't want to bother my husband. So I used my car and,for the 1st time, Jumped the truck off!!! Then went to Sears and got a new battery installed. Ready for the next day! Day 3, the next day... Kids all loaded up, ready Savannah's Stuff all together. We get just in front of the house and I hear the unmistakable sound of a flat tire bumping along. NO WAY! yes way. I get the truck where it needs to be and do the now customary switcharoo. Takes forever and you guessed it, I checked her in again. She even got fussed at :(
My husband has a friend who is a truck mechanic for a large trucking company and he was nice enough to stop by and fill up the tire between jobs. Thanks!!!
So we're all set now. We run errands on Wed and go to church and are ready to head out again this morning. I crank that truck early, check the tires, get all loaded and What's that noise? Emergency vehicles coming my way? (Maybe an escort to school? I deserve it.) Ambulance, Firetruck, police all stop at the end of my driveway for the house accross the street. No I am not joking. "Excuse me? sir? please? I know you are a little busy but...you see we have been late for school already and..." They move to let me out but want to ask questions about who lives there because no one is answering. (The dude's in a nursing home). I Squeeze out between the fire rescue truck and the lincoln (parked on the street just in case :) and they start waving at me. Oh No I am curious how they got a call to a vacant house, but I have to go! I wave back "No more questions right now" and head to school. I get a lot of honks but I was on my phone with Pirt and assumed they were fussing about that. Shortly I drop Savannah off and she has forgotten her lunchbox. UGH! As I pull up at the stop sign a mom stops me and tells me there is a lunchbox on my bumper. Ha! You know that is why the police were waving and everyone was honking. haha. I was the girl in the minivan commercial with the diaperbag on her van. hahahaha
Just for effect, here is a sample picture:

Now I am not really a believer in fate but seriously this afternoon when I loaded up the babies in that freakin truck again..guess what.. It wouldn't freakin crank! Are you kidding me? Have you seen a carpool line? Do you know the mad women that volunteer to stand out in the hot sun and deliver you your children safely? Do you know the looks you get when you are the last person there for pick-up???? This year better get better!
I am ready to go finish the paperwork I have put off until now. Savannah filled out a lot of it but I must do the rest. peace.