this is such a weird week. a hard week. actually, 2 weeks.

Usually, I'm able to balance being a mom, and being a law student. even with my crazy school and its co op program (meaning I work full time intermittently). This week, however, feels like the balance is off. And it's in the wrong direction!! It's not that I'm off studying too much. It's that I'm NOT studying enough. There are too many things I just. can't. miss.

Today was Thing One's first performance for her community theater program. i can't not be there!! It was at 4 p.m. (I usually work until 5:30 - today, I had to leave school at 3) then tonight was her spring concert for school (making it so that I could not go to the library after her play, b/c I had to come back home by 6 to bring her to the school). Tomorrow [friday], Thing Two has an extra practice for HER community theater program, because her performance is next week. It also ends early, so I have to shave an hour off my day in order to pick her up on time. Sunday is Mother's Day, and maybe 2 softball games [torrential rain is currently forecast]. Thursday is another performance. Friday is Thing Two's sleepover birthday party. Saturday is Thing Two's first play. Sunday is her second.

Then there's the things I don't WANT to miss. Our usual Friday night movie night, for example. Dinner with the family. Things like that. I was planning on skipping movie night - to hole up in my room and study while they had fun in the living room. I decided not to. Instead, I'm going to stay up all night tonight. If need be.

Also, the little things that creep in and demand full attention - phone calls from the school nurse that Thing One has an earache; a tantrum from Thing Two b/c she's over tired after a field trip all day; a phone call from my dad saying that SIL is actually quite miserable over recent events, and him wanting to talk about it, etc.

In the meantime? I need to finalize my Admin take home, start my Corporations take home, finish my Fed Courts outline and study like mad for that class, and start an Employment law outline. Everything School will be over by Friday at noon [a week from tomorrow!!], and then I can switch over to the last part of the list above -- starting with "Thing Two's Sleepover Party." Hand in the exams at noon, and then go to the store, buy the goodies, come home, clean the house, etc.

Somewhere in here, I need to bring my new suit pants in to be hemmed, take all my old suits to the cleaners, fill out my orientation paper work, track down my birth certificate, and in general freak out, because the Monday after everything i've spoken of here --- I start a new job.

posted by Zuska @ 9:37 PM

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