This may look like a fairly average picture of our family in the car. It’s not.
Today, at 3:35pm, Hil and I realized that Charlotte was 5mims late for a birthday party that started at 3:30pm. We’d had a pretty busy day to that point, so we are going to be forgiving of ourselves on the punctuality thing, all the same, it was a friend from charlottes SK class and we didnt want to give Charlotte the message that it’s okay to say you are going to something and not show. Anyway, Hil and I, perhaps realizing that at this point on the Sunday afternoon neither of us was either prepared to go to the party on our own or stay home with the other two on our own, decided that we should all go together to the party. Of course, this borders on an imposition because ruby and Arden weren’t exactly invited but they are both relatively small and cute so we can usually sneak them in wherever. Whatever. The reason I took the picture is that, by some miracle, that I am theorizing may have actually been time travel, all five of us were in the clothes we needed to be in, snacks and spare bottles packed, having peed and changed the necessary diaper, and knowing where we were going, all in the span of about 15mins.
I don’t have a clue how we managed to expedite his process. Hil and I are hard and fast believers in the divide and conquer approach to parenting. We are all about sharing the load, core competencies, and going in opposite directions if it means that will streamline the process and making life a little easier. And that is what we did today. Still somehow we got out of the house a solid 15mins ahead of any other departure process we have ever engaged in. Let alone a spontaneous one with one child who is toilet training, another who need has just woken up from a nap and an eldest who is, to be completely honest, a little worn out from all the socializing she has been doing over the past few days. We made it to the party by 4pm. Time travel I tell you. It’s possible.
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