Thursday, April 15, 2010

Question

How I was not aware that Sarah had a "construction" project to do at home for Quest?

I knew they were working on designing playgrounds. Somehow I thought they were building their models a little at a time on their Quest days. Maybe I should have clued-in that she never mentioned working on them in class. Maybe I should have asked her more about it and been a more involved parent. Maybe Sarah should have been more proactive on her own. Regardless of the what-ifs, we now find ourselves with a huge project to assemble that is due on Tuesday.

Here is our timeline between now and then:
  • Tomorrow: school until 3:30 pm, battle with typical Friday "don't want to do any schoolwork attitude"
  • Saturday: church service project until noon combined with me at a hair appointment = unavailable parental help all morning
  • Sunday: church until noon, possibly inviting another family over for dinner, plus we try not to do homework on Sundays (but we may have to make an exception in this case)
  • Monday: school until 3:30, choir practice until 4:30, dinner, dance from 6:00-7:00, FHE
  • Tuesday: it's due (and I'll probably have to drop it off for her because of its size)

And here I sit while she and Brad are talking about the hypotenuse of a triangle....

7 comments:

Shelley said...

sorry Court, Unfortunately, I have the procrastinator genes too. I know Mom can lament with you. She spent many late nights up with me doing huge projects that were due.

Annalia said...

Oh, Man. What a crazy weekend, don't cha think?

Mary Sunshine said...

Ahahahahaha! Good luck! My mother helped me on many a last minute project. I know I've got my own coming up in the next several years. Abe testing for Quest in a couple of weeks. I guess just have her do as much as she can on her own.

Unknown said...

Sorry...

Kathy said...

You have years of this ahead of you! LOL

ohmomma said...

This sounds like a job for Super Dad! Yet another fantastic reason to be married to an engineer!

Annalia said...

Yes, Courtney, I avoid pre-washing my quilt fabrics,because I like the puckering. ....but what I've noticed is that even vintage, very washed fabrics will pucker if you don't prewash your batting.