A glimpse into my future

I knew when we decided that JR was going to be going to school 45 minutes away from home that it was going to mean more time in the car.  Even though my husband will be able to take him to and from school most days, there will be times when I'll need to make the trip over for whatever reason.  Yesterday was a glimpse into the fact that some days are going to be challenging, and I'm afraid there is more fast food in our future!

JR had orientation at 6:30 yesterday.  Because it was predominantly for sixth graders, most of his teachers would not be there.  It was decided that he and my husband would attend, and then we would all go on Tuesday for open house so I would have the opportunity to meet his teachers.  That is VERY IMPORTANT to me!  It also worked out for me to not attend last night because JC and HT had karate at 6:00.  There was no way that I could drop them off and then have JR to my husband by 6:30, so it was decided that it would have to be before hand.  That meant in order to be back to get the others to karate, I had to drop him off by 5:00  I had forgotten that yesterday was move in day for the university in the town where my husband teaches, so it's a very good thing I had planned some extra time.  Of course, in order to make sure that I was there by 5, we had to leave shortly after 4.  If I wanted to feed them before we left, that would mean eating at 3:30, and that just didn't seem reasonable.  It wasn't really a problem for my husband and JR as they would have plenty of time to kill between 5 and 6:30 in order to eat, but what about the younger two?  I decided my only option was to swing through McDonald's when I dropped off JR, because waiting until they got home at 8:00 didn't seem to be an option either.  It gave them the opportunity to eat in the car and have something in their stomachs.  I'll be honest, since recently they've both been experiencing car sickness on the drive back and forth from my husband's work, I was a little concerned about putting THAT into their stomach, but it all worked out fine.  We dashed into karate right at 6:00 and I'd had the foresight to bring the uniforms along so we hadn't had to go home first.  They just needed to change and then they could get started.  I got home about 6:20 from it all, and I realized that there are definitely going to be some more evenings like this in my future.  Let's hope gas prices start going down!