Is this a big deal?

I'm feeling like I'm finally "getting a grip". First we had school start up, then all those Jewish holidays, scary lice, new activities and figuring out my schedule and now my classes have started up...

I had to go to the dentist four Mondays in a row. I guess I could have crammed it in quicker but Mondays really suit me and she only works parttime. I finally went for the last time last Monday. Yeah! She's nice and it wasn't that bad. I hate getting novacaine shots but oh well. I stressed the first time and then I was okay after that. The last apt. was actually the worst, when she went around and tidied up the job. I have deep cleaning, each quadrant at a time. It's over-yeah!

This also sounds a bit silly but I'm the Big Exerciser. No I'm not, but I am continuing with the swimming. My local pool was closed and no, it wasn't a big deal to go elsewhere...I'm lying, yes it was. First of all, the schedule. 9:30-10:30am. The problem is that I prefer to get it over with and take advantage before the stores open, which is around 9:30/10am. Schiltingheim, a place non-beer drinkers wouldn't know, was open at 8am most mornings. So going to Kitbutzinau (a place no one knows) meant no shopping before, since everything is closed before 9:30 and picking up Davina at 11:40 meant no shopping afterwards...well, that was my morning. Not much else I could do. Also, I'm fussy. I want Olympic sized pools. I do 20 laps and that makes 40 in most Strasbourg pools, except Stghm and Kibutzinau, which is ages away. Now Stghm is open again. Yeah!

My Wednesdays are brutal. Davina goes to the Garderie (p/t daycare). Talia has ponies 10-11, gymnatics from 3:30-5:30, Ronnie has Hebrew school 4:15-5:15 and than soccer from 6 to 7:30... Yes, I have to pick them up in two different places at the same time. I made arrangements that Ronnie stays for the second class until I arrive but another mom with twins in his class has volunteered to take him to soccer. Yeah!

I started German class on Tuesday mornings. The teacher has a child, in the bilingual program at a school near St. Jean so I gave him a ride. He showed me a faster way to go. He has the 11:40 pick up time too. It's German "false beginners" so supposedly we've all had some German before. Several of us have kids in the bilingual program.

Yoga is Friday mornings. It took me 20 minutes to find parking and I was late for the first class. Not a very relaxing way to start!