Jamie and Liam Chew's Blog: 2009-09-25

2009-09-25 22:52 (Kristen) Today was the Terry Fox run at Jamie's school, where they are all crazy about cross-country running. The school got all 700 or so kids to walk over to a nearby park and do at least four 400-metre laps of a soccer field. Jamie had turned large, saucer eyes on me this morning when I said that I might not be there (nevermind that John had already confirmed his attendance), as I had to pick up Liam at 1. The walk/run started from the school at 1, and after I got a late project off and picked up Liam, it was past 1:30. I got Liam to walk from Chester station (under protest) to the park, and saw Jamie going around the field for the last time on the back of the friend of his reading buddy David. I made Jamie get off and walk around the rest of the way on his own steam, and he seemed happy that I was there, once he noticed. I grumbled to another mother that he had better remember this, given the amount of sheer aggravation it took for me to get there, and was reassured. Liam was not going to walk home when it was time to leave, and I was wiped out with a load of daycare and work-related stuff. A schoolyard mom/friend, Corynn, drove Liam and me home, for which I am very grateful. Liam settled in at home to play DS, and I waited to see if Jamie wanted to go with me to the Second Cup after school. Turns out he didn't, and played with his friends in the playground until 5. Then it was dinner at Browning, and time to go home and go to bed in anticipation of a long day on Saturday.