t.i.r.e.d.

Day 2 of Kidsweek (VBS) at church and I am already whooped!  It is pretty crazy what we're doing.  Our church is RIGHT downtown, and on Sunday mornings that's no big deal.  It's a 35 minute drive straight in, and there's free parking nearby if we're on time (incentive!).  HOWEVER.  We wanted the kids to be part of the summer program at *our* church, with *their* friends and me volunteering where we are members.  While it has been a great time so far, and I'm glad we decided to do it, the transit is horrifying.  We need to be there at 9am, along with every other area commuter going to work toward the city.  The first morning, we drove to the garage, paid $23 for the privilege to park (+ the $10 for gas), medium sized walk to the building and it took ~ 1 hour and 20 minutes to get there :}  About 50 minutes home.  Down for a too-short, too-late nap by 2:20ish.  Ugh!!  Today, we drove to the furthest outlying subway station, then subwayed to the church...left at 7:40am, arrived 9:15am.  Double UGH!!!  Home and Asher napping by 2:45.  Well, it'll be an exhausting week, but the kids are handling all the travel pretty well.  Trying to drag 2 kids through the subway station without letting Asher throw himself on the third rail...well, I'm the one getting exhausted!!