my life revolves around driving kids to places

[deird1]

My Tuesday afternoons are about to be so much easier, and I'm having a logistics happy.


Previous version of Tuesdays:
- pack up all the stuff
- take daughter (and all the stuff) in the car to school
- pick up son from school
- give both kids a snack in the car
- drive to swimming pool
- carry all the stuff inside
- get two kids to the toilet, and all three of us changed into bathers
- YELL A LOT to get the kids to hurry up
- get into the swimming pool with the kids
- splash around in waist-deep water for fifteen minutes, while watching the clock
- walk two kids around to the other end of the swimming pool, to their swimming lessons
- go get dressed
- retrieve my book from the pile of stuff
- wait until the kids' lessons have finished
- get two kids to the toilet (again), and changed out of bathers
- YELL A LOT (again) to get the kids to hurry up
- carry all the stuff out to the car, and drive us all home

But I have now bought "surf ponchos" (giant ponchos made of towelling). So our new routine will look like this:
- take daughter in the car to school
- pick up son from school
- drive home
- give both kids a snack
- get two kids to the toilet, and changed into bathers
- drop surf ponchos over their heads
- drive to swimming pool
- walk two kids to their swimming lessons
- remove their surf ponchos
- read my book, and wait until the kids' lessons have finished
- drop surf ponchos over their heads
- drive us all home


SO MUCH EASIER. Plus, my previous version of "all the stuff" involved towels, bathers, goggles, snacks, and a book; now, I'll just have to carry goggles and a book.