This morning when I said that yesterday had been a long day, here’s why:
7:00 a.m. – Naima (SIL) arrives to get Aliya and Adlani on the bus and take care of Norah. I am making lunches and snacks in my underwear.
7:45 a.m. – Drive to Boston (now showered and dressed) for a meeting at the W Hotel.
9:00 – 11:30 – Walk up and down all stairwells at the W to look at the doors and figure out why certain electronic components are not doing what they’re supposed to do.
11:30 – 1:30 – Go to Revere to pick up Norah, drive back to Framingham and feed Norah while answering phone calls and emails on my Blackberry.
2:00 – Norah’s swimming lesson at the Y, more phone calls and emails.
3:00 – Pick up Aliya and Adlani at school for a 3:45 doctors appointment.
3:30 – Meet Ben in the doctor’s parking lot to hand off Adlani and Norah, take Aliya to doctor’s.
4:15 – Head to the hospital for a chest x-ray on Aliya (clear).
5:00 – Leave hospital (in record time), call Ben to round up Aliya’s soccer stuff and meet us at practice.
5:30 – Soccer practice.
6:00 – Take Adlani and Norah and pick up Majda (our niece) at Riverside T station, which became a 2-hour round trip because of traffic.
8:00 – Pick up dinner at Burger King. Majda has not eaten for 24 hours because of Ramadan.
9:00 – Put kids to bed and accidentally fall asleep so I didn’t do the work I had planned or get my act together for the morning. Hence the rough start this morning.
I guess I’ll be working this weekend.
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