Today we signed up for parent teacher conferences the for the end of the first week of November. While conferences are available Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday we are leaving town early Thursday morning for Chicago so the Mrs can have a repeat of her neck surgery. That gave us a very limited window of 2 hours or so for meeting with the teachers. And I am thinking every parent is going to jump on that Wednesday afternoon so they can have a long weekend. At 7:29 my wife and I are poised to hit the conference scheduler app as fast as we can to try to nail down, those Wednesday afternoon time slots. And then the wife goes and unplugs our router. Oh shit. She quickly plugs it back in but the boot up takes over 1 min. In Chicago trying to sign up for parent teacher conferences losing that minute would mean nothing available except 8am friday morning or maybe friday night. In Aspen we still got our pick of times Wednesday afternoon. Yea Aspen.
Some of you may know my primary job is hockey mom. The juxtaposition of not having parents jump all over the scheduler for parent teacher conferences is a very laid back attitude towards puck. This hockey mom is having trouble adjusting. To wit---team evaluations have been going on (and I think wrapping up but who can tell) and there is a tournament this weekend in Aspen that my daughter might be playing in. Or not. It depends which team she is on, and we don't know yet. And the kids have Thursday and Friday off of school so I either might get out of town with them (mountain biking in Moab sounds great except that I am scared of mountain biking) or she has 3-4 games starting on Friday. And if she is playing this weekend the team will have zero practices prior to tourney, likewise the girls team she is on has a tourney next weekend in Denver and they will maybe have one practice in total before that. To quote Seinfeld --Serenity NOW.
Now about those moths. Haven't seen one in weeks, which is due some serious poison sprayed in the house once a week. In an effort not to kill the dogs, I take them on a couple of hour walk. Today our walk in the woods yielded fresh tracks through the snow, some very slippery mud, a skeleton of a big animal (AKA doggy chew toy xmas) some barbed wire that the youngest pup got tangled up in (she is fine), and some fine views of snow covered everything with blue bird skies. Love it.
PS --Do dogs need tetanus shots?
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