Picking the kids up after school is an accident waiting to happen. The lack of parking spots is a real problem, so you are allowed to park on the sidewalk. This makes walking to the school difficult as people are coming and going and have to share half of a sidewalk. Then the doors. This school's doors are making me crazy! There are heavy double doors everywhere, but they are made so that only one of the doors can open. You often need to wait to let someone through before you can go. This means that from the minute I get out of the car, with a toddler on my hip, I am doing the "No, you go first" and "Thank you for letting me go first" dance as I negotiate my way down the sidewalk and through the five sets of doors I need to pass through to get to the playground. I feel like one of those overly polite gophers in the Looney Tunes cartoons, "No, no, after you. I insist!" With kids running all around the parking lot, I'll be happy for us all to get through this school year with no accidents.
I'm feeling overwhelmed trying to deal with all the activities we need to sign the kids up for. There are sports programs and then Student Life Activities (SLOs). Micaela must sign up for a sport or an SLO afterschool every day. For James and Emilie, it's optional. Everyone is frantically signing up for the sports programs, but we haven't even gotten the list of SLO activities yet. How are we suppose to figure this all out until we have all the information? I ask questions, but feel that I'm being treated like an idiot. It's a case where I somehow should already know everything. I really like being led by the hand when I'm in a new situation and this is not how it is at the school.
James got a new skateboard that David picked up back in Atlanta and helmet for his birthday. There is a skatepark in Liederbach and James can't wait to try it out.
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