I feel like we live in our car. Our commute to work and school in the morning is about 45 minutes to an hour. On Mondays and Wednesdays, just as I sit down to get into the most difficult part of my day, I have to run out the door to pick up Hailey. She changes in the car and 30 minutes later she's off to her ballet class and I hurry back to work. An hour later I'm back at school, picking her up to take her home. The commute home takes at least an hour, sometimes even an hour and a half. I don't quite understand why the ride home is actually longer that the ride in the AM. More people out later in the day I suppose. So frustrating.
But on Wednesdays, schools dismisses an entire hour earlier than on other days so I go back to her school 3 times in less than 2 hours. I pick her up at 2, take her back to work with me until 3:30. There she gets some homework done. Drive back to school at 3:30 for her class and drive back to work. An hour later, at 4:30 I drive back to her school to pick her up and off we go to nowhere land, just sit in traffic for an hour and a half.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, it's pretty much the same thing. Back and forth, back and forth, all day long. She has Jazz class on those days.
And Friday evenings, after work, it's off to our Girl Scout meeting.
So much driving can wear a person out. My head is often spinning. It's worse than actually being at work. Extremely stressful.
I do suppose it doesn't help much that work and school are so far from our actual home. Everything we do is around the school/work area. All her friends live close to the school so play dates are set up in that area as well.
I've even gone to the extreme and calculated that I spend about 750 hours a year sitting in traffic. That totals 31 and a half days a year, an entire month sitting in a car. I always hear on the news those statistics that start off with: "One out of eight Americans.....". Well, I have just realized I am a statistic. I spend an entire month a year in traffic. Pretty intense if you ask me.
But on Wednesdays, schools dismisses an entire hour earlier than on other days so I go back to her school 3 times in less than 2 hours. I pick her up at 2, take her back to work with me until 3:30. There she gets some homework done. Drive back to school at 3:30 for her class and drive back to work. An hour later, at 4:30 I drive back to her school to pick her up and off we go to nowhere land, just sit in traffic for an hour and a half.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, it's pretty much the same thing. Back and forth, back and forth, all day long. She has Jazz class on those days.
And Friday evenings, after work, it's off to our Girl Scout meeting.
So much driving can wear a person out. My head is often spinning. It's worse than actually being at work. Extremely stressful.
I do suppose it doesn't help much that work and school are so far from our actual home. Everything we do is around the school/work area. All her friends live close to the school so play dates are set up in that area as well.
I've even gone to the extreme and calculated that I spend about 750 hours a year sitting in traffic. That totals 31 and a half days a year, an entire month sitting in a car. I always hear on the news those statistics that start off with: "One out of eight Americans.....". Well, I have just realized I am a statistic. I spend an entire month a year in traffic. Pretty intense if you ask me.
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Wow that is a long time spent in the car traveling. I guess I can not complain when I have to shuttle Leilani to CCD, and Dance and Girl Scouts. Everything is within 10 minutes of my house. Except of course when we have an Girl Scout event somewhere else.
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