Impossible Impassable August

Our summer schedule is not going as I planned. But I am stubbornly unwilling to say that I am fully to blame. We lost our summer babysitter about a week and a half sooner than we had hoped. So even our best-laid plans and beautiful color coded Google calendar (accessible on my smartphone) were of no use anymore.

I was more than 30 minutes late to pick up my older sons from vacation Bible school. Not once but twice. That is not acceptable. Luckily, I volunteer there every year and know the camp director so she was willing to keep an eye on my boys until I could get there. I hope that the money I'm making at work is enough to pay for their psychiatrist bills later. 

The cavalry is on the way. My mother-in-law is coming in for a week. Hallelujah!  My husband bribed her with a few rounds of golf (and seeing her 3 beautiful grandsons of course). This is great--- now I don't have to be the bad mom who cancels Lego camp because carpooling is impossible. I might actually come out of this looking pretty good. Lego camp is still on, grandma is visiting, and we can actually get to the county fair too. As a reward for my greatness, I made delicious peanut butter cookies.