5 years 7 months 17 days

Day 2055. Thursday is usually the day I do the most teaching. Randy left with the kids in the morning to take them to kindergarten, while I lay back down for more sleep. At 9:30 am my alarm went off, and I got up to get ready for my 10 am student. I then taught until noon. Randy then left to go get Sammy and returned home with him at 12:40 pm. Then he left again to pick up Tammy and Emmy. Sammy and I stayed home and had a good time together. Randy and the kids returned home just before 2:30 pm and eventually they all went downstairs.

I started teaching at 2:30 pm. I had a cancelation at 3:30 pm, so I went downstairs to do piano practice with the kids. Back upstairs, I made their sandwiches for dinner. Just before 4:30 pm, Randy left with Sammy to take him to his wheelchair class. I started teaching again at 4:30 and taught until 6:20 pm. Then I went to the kitchen to cut up their fruit. I gave them their plates to eat, and Sammy's was waiting for him once he'd return, which was just after 7 pm. After all three had stopped eating, they went into the bathtub, then we got them ready for bed. I read them some stories, prayed for them, and they went to bed, while I sat down at my computer for my 8:10 pm student.

But the student never came; she had forgotten our lesson. I waited a long time before I left the meeting and went to the kitchen to get myself something to eat.

This morning I set the alarm for 6:30 - after having gone to bed at 2 am. But it was Randy who got up that early to make breakfast and leave the house with the kids earlier than usual, as Tammy and Emmy go to the library with kindergarten once a month and have to be there earlier on those days. Tammy didn't want to get up, but I finally got her to. They kept coming for me for stuff repeatedly - until they finally left the house before 8 am. Then I could finally get some more sleep.

My alarm woke me at 9:30 am, and I got up to get ready for my 10 am student. I then taught until 12:30 pm. Randy had left the house by then to pick up Tammy and Emmy and take them to their tennis class. I wrapped up my lesson and left the house to go pick up Sammy. I got there just before 1 pm, and Sammy was ready for me, ready to go home. He had been looknig forward to seeing the Easter Bunny and told me that he had come to kindergarten. We said good-bye to everyone and left the building to go home.

I was extremely tired and wanted to get some rest, but no chance. I gave Sammy what he wanted, and I got ready for us to leave the house, including making sandwiches for the kids. Time went by fast, and before I knew it it was time to leave. I'd had no rest and felt terrible.

Just before 3 pm Sammy and I left and walked to the subway. We rodet the subway, then got on a train, then walked to the platform on the other side, where the train goes the opposite direction, and sat down there to wait for the train Daddy and the siblings were on. It arrived just after 3:30 pm. I pushed the wheelchair into the train, and Tammy left the train, then the three boys left with the train. Randy went to Emmy's soccer class with them. Tammy and I walked to the bus stop and rode the bus to her dance school.

Tammy got changed and went inside the dance studio, while I went on the porch and sat down right by the window to her classroom so I could watch her dance. However, I was so tired that I actually fell asleep. Finally a chance for that! Then the phone rang and woke me up - it was Randy and Sammy. Sammy wanted to talk with me, and he stayed on until Tammy's class ended at 4:50 pm.

She got changed again, and we left and walked to the bus stop to go home. At 5:30 pm we picked up bread for a third of the price at a bakery, then we continued on home. Back home I cut up fruit for them. Randy and the boys returned home just after 6 pm, and everyone started eating. At 6:20 pm I started teaching again, going until 7:10 pm. Then I went downstairs with Tammy and Emmy for a shortened version of piano practice. Back upstairs it was bathtub time, then story time. Tammy was crying because her foot was hurting so bad; I hope we don't have to go to the hospital tomorrow. They went to bed, while I sat down at my computer for my 8:10 pm student.

I taught until 9 pm, then I made myself something to eat. After having eaten, I went back to work. It looks like it will be 2 am again before I make it to bed.