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Back and Forth, and Back and Forth, and Back and Forth

And I'm not talking about rocking a baby either! At day's end yesterday I was telling Destry how many times I had been to one school or another yesterday. It began with taking everyone to school except for Taylor before 8:00 a.m. Then I took Taylor to school at 10:30. I drove to Orem for some appointments and made it back to Saratoga Springs in time to pick up the girls from the elementary school and some random kids from the high school at 2:15. Then at 3:00 p.m. I picked up Taylor. at  4:00 I picked up Spencer and some additional random teenagers, fixed an early dinner for Spencer and his friend and had them back to the high school at 5:00. Then at 6:00 I picked up Estelle and her play practice cohorts and drove all of them home. At 8:30 I picked up Spencer and his friend. In case you lost track that was eight trips to one school or another in one day! 

 Today I was sharing this with Renee along with the driving schedule for next year. I will have kids in four different schools with four different schedules. I can take everyone to school in one trip, but Emma will arrive 30 minutes early. Oh well. Spencer will get dropped off first as his school begins at 7:45; Emma will be next due to the location of her school even though she starts the latest at 8:15; Taylor and his 7:55 start time will be third and the two younger girls will be the last drop off for their 8:00 time.

 Pick up will take 45 minutes on Tuesdays-Thursdays. The little girls and Spencer all get out at 2:15 I will get the girls then head over to Spencer. A little trick I have learned this year is that if I get to the elementary school about 8 minutes after school gets out the traffic jam has cleared and I can drive right up to the curb and the little cuties hop right in. I get to the hight school somewhere between 2:25 and 2:30. We will then drive to Vista Heights Middle School for Emma who gets out at 2:45. There will be a 10 minute or so wait for her then we'll pick up Taylor at Lakeview Academy at 2:55. Fun right?

 Alpine School District has an early release day on Mondays while Taylor's charter school has theirs on Fridays which will call for two trips on both of those days. 

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