Tuesday

was not relaxing. Started with our morning reading/math with MoJo. No, it actually started with the babies not waking up at 4 or 5 am (too good to be true) but at 6am. Believe it or not, since everything is relative, 6am feels like 9 am (or 11) to most of you normal people. I, of course, could not sleep. I had awful nightmares involving the babies. So, we headed out to get J a haircut. Dentist called that he was running late. We stopped by BT to drop off hand me downs, went to Petco, get a snack and then the dentist called to say he was ahead of schedule so we headed there. Double cleaning coupled with the awesome news (and physical evidence that I could not deny) that M needs braces. I will have to think about that one, since it entails THOUSANDS of dollars not covered by anything. I need to take her for a consultation with an orthodontist. Went to Banana to exchange shirt sizes for F, bus to Deluxe (MoJo's diner of choice) where I ate my weight in french fries. GROSS. Library where I admitted that I could not find a book and paid $4 to own it (had I not I could have accrued late fees totaling a limitless number of dollars). Train down (all this with MoJo in tow) to PT where I worked hard while my therapist entertained J (hyper). Oh, we had also stopped at the supermarket, so laden with bags we hopped onto the subway. It took us 50 minutes to get from 72 st to our house (two stops). There was a power problem, there were 1,000 Bronx middle schoolers in our car, grumpy MoJo, no seats, you get the picture. Got home, dropped our stuff, grabbed the scooters and swimsuits and we were off to the park on 100 St. That, was not a relaxing day. Today promises to be better. Morning work is done and M is off to a Yankee game, where she will surely melt (thanks tía D) and J is about to go out with his bff from BT for an afternoon adventure. Yes ladies and gentleman, there are about 3 hours that I will be FREE, as in sans bambini. Not sure what I will do! F is off to San Fran and it is scorching hot! To be continued. Stay hydrated New Yorkers:)