Not my favorite day

Today, Catherine is off to a band competition and then gets to spend the day at an amusement park.  She is beyond excited.  Many local people have a season's pass to the park, but it's just not something we enjoy all that much.  Even as a child, I didn't really care about going.  It was fun, but not something I'd like to do all the time.  The thing about this day is that it requires Catherine to be at the school even earlier than she would normally get on the bus...yikes!  I remember three years ago when Robert was going to school here but we were still living in our former town.  My fabulous husband left home at 5:15 AM to get Robert here on time...meaning there was still a "4" on the clock when they got up.  Ugh.  Selfishly, it also requires a ridiculous amount of work on my part for my volunteer job (although thankfully ahead of time, not this morning), and it's just not my favorite day of the year.  The nice thing about being up though is that I can get to work in the flower beds!