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Our week

Lately, life is really busy and stressful.  So to explain a bit - it's busy because we have 3 active boys with various levels of needs and desires - here is a break down of my week.  And this is a pretty good week with Chris while working late a couple of days but in town to help with some night time stuff.

Monday 
  • Ilya to school by 8:00 (he had to learn a very short Russian "poem"over the weekend)
  • Anton has extra German lessons from 9:35 to 11:15 to which he needs to be taken to and then taken to kindergarten.
  • From 14:30 until 16:00 Andrei has special reading therapy.
  • Pick up Anton and Ilya. 
 Tuesday
  • Ilya to school at 7:30
  • Anton to speech therapy by 8:00
  • Anton to kindergarten by 9:00 
  • Andrei speech therapy from 13:45 to 14:30
  • Then I rush to get Ilya from school and take Ilya and Andrei together for their math tutoring
  • Get Anton from kindergarten hopefully around 16:30
Wednesday - my peaceful day!
  • Ilya to school by 8:00
  • Anton's German from 8:35 to 9:15
  • Meeting with Andrei's teacher at 13:00
  • Get Ilya around 16:00
Thursday
  • Ilya to school by 8:00 
  • Andrei to pediatrician for his weekly allergy shots at 15:00 and sit around the office for around 45 minutes to make sure that he does not have any kind of reaction
  • Run like the wind to get Ilya because ...
  • I should leave our house around 17:10 to get Andrei to his cub scout meeting at 18:00, Ilya does not have it this week.  Will be back around 20:00.
Friday 
  • Ilya to school by 8:00
  • Anton to extra German from 9:35 to 11:35 and then to kindergarten
  • Andrei will be home around 13:30 (I think!)
  • Anton's kindergarten closes at 13:00
  • Andrei and Chris are going to dive class from 17:30 and back by 22:30
  • get ready for my friend to come from Munich! 
 Saturday
  • 3 English school classes
  • 3 swimming lessons
  • and 1 art class
If you are still reading this - in addition to their regular daily homework, Andrei has math test and Ilya has English test on Wednesday.  They have their daily extra math from tutoring as well.  Andrei has to learn trick words, finish writing some kind of a story, read "reader book",  and finish answering all the questions for the story they read in class in English school.  Ilya has to learn a spelling sheet, do a word search, read an English book, and review some of his previous words for English Saturday school.  He also has a list of ongoing German words that he needs to be learning. Oh yeah, Ilya also needs to draw some flowers so that he art teacher can help him figure out what he is doing wrong.  Because we threw away everything he drew before!

I am also trying to read about 100 pages of information (in German) regarding schools for Andrei for next year because open houses are coming up and we are receiving very conflicting information about what to do. 

I am sure that I will also have to do laundry which is unlike anything that most people imagine because machines are rather on the small side and it's not rare for me to do laundry for 2 days straight - start first load around 7:00 and keep going until around 16:00 and do the same the following day. 
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