The organised mum has a calendar. This calendar may be colour coded with different shades for weekends, appointments noted for each member of the family, including pets, and kept scrupulously up to date.
On this calendar she writes down when school holidays start and end, when sports day is and when her darling child is due to go away on a residential trip. She will also have noted when public holidays are and when her beloved husband has planned leave or business trips.
She will also know when June starts.
I am not this mum.
I am this mum...
I don't even have a proper calendar because, for once, I wasn't sent 30 of the things as Christmas presents last year. So each month I use Word to generate a calendar and pin it up by my desk. This is what I did today. After some searching I found the school holiday chart and a separate planner I hadn't noticed on the website until now.
Although I knew half term was sometime in June I hadn't realised that a) June starts on Wednesday and b) half term starts on Thursday. To say I was somewhat dumbstruck would be a lie - I was not struck dumb, I was struck with expletives.
Tim has tomorrow off. Therefore, I have Tuesday and Wednesday to complete one of my numerous projects before I am thrust into the unenviable task being Rhiannon's entertainment manager.
Not only that, but Rhiannon's residential trip starts on her first day back at school and, because I couldn't attend the meeting about it as she was ill, I have no idea what I'm supposed to do or pack. An email has been hurriedly sent to school asking for further information ASAP.
And as luck would have it, the week of her residential trip is the same week Tim has planned to go away on business. I don't know if this is good or bad luck at the moment.
It looks like I'm going to have to drive here much sooner than I'd hoped. Not least because it turns out that sports day is also in June...
This has all quite ruined my Sunday.
Send calendars please!