Summer Frenzy

Summer must be my busiest time of the year next to the Christmas holidays. I have four girls with ages ranging from 10 years old to 1 year old and each of them have a number of activities to keep them active during the summer. So my chaperone role is an addition to my year round roles of cook, teacher, lawyer, judge, driver, etc.

Nadine has piano lessons, voice lessons, math skills builder and horseback riding training. Raya has chess classes, hiphop lessons, voice and eventually math skills builder too. Alyssa has ballet and Cerise has physical therapy.

It's a good thing that hiphop and ballet are slated for only two weeks. Well, everyday of that two weeks though. So you can imagine how I run from one activity to the other and make time for other stuff in between. Well, I had to make sure that I am able to make the most of our time away from home. So I planned Nadine's math skills builder at the same time as Raya's hiphop so I can drop one after the other and save my sanity. Haha!

Piano and voice lessons are only once a week but both fall on the same day --- Monday, making it the busiest day of the week. 8am Raya goes to chess, 9am Nadine goes to piano. I pick them both up at 10am then rush to hiphop class. By 1130 we are home for lunch. I TRY to squeeze in aerodance at 1pm. Then voice at 2pm for Nadine and Raya until 4pm, 1 hour each. By 430 pm, Alyssa's turn to dance ballet.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, we leave in time for Cerise's therapy at 3pm. Right after it's done, we ask the driver to drop Alyssa and me at ballet while Yaya Anie brings Cerise home. The driver just brings the car back to us afterwards.

In between those activities, I make sure that dinner is cooked and ready for heating as we get home kinda late from Alyssa's ballet and I'd like to put up my feet already and enjoy the rest of the evening with my girls.

Despite the busyness I do enjoy myself spending time with each child. It isn't easy but it is in the little things that we get to know the individuality of each and what makes them tick. I love being a mom! I love being surrounded by their laughter and voices. They each have their own quirks and I love finding them out and knowing how to deal with them. Someday I will look back at this summer and miss the busyness of it. Right now, I will just savor the moment.

Nadine horseback riding


Raya playing chess with a high school student


Alyssa doing ballet


Cerise before going to therapy