Since it is Monday, and the weekend was entirely consumed by birthday parties, I had great ambitions for getting things done today, and I would have, were it not for the fact that Anna woke up in a terrible mood and had a tantrum because she didn’t want to go to school, not sharing the reason why until I probed further and found that she didn’t like her teachers, which was not really true as I discovered by probing even further and finding that the real problem was that her new room did not have a potty like her old one did, which means that the children may not use the potty at the exact moment that they would like to, but rather in batches or at least when there are two teachers available so that one can watch the classroom, which we did eventually make it to after Tara woke up early, which meant that we had to leave for school in something of a rush because at the time that Tara woke up Anna was not yet dressed or fed, so our usual lazy morning routine was something less lazy, but we nevertheless made it in decent spirits until the moment came for me to leave which resulted in not one but three tearful goodbyes as I first said goodbye to her on the playground after forgetting that I had not signed her in, so I had to go back to the classroom which resulted in another tearful goodbye at the windows of the classroom and things were looking good then after I directed her to the fence which is near the parking lot until I ran into our friend M. dropping off her daughter K., which resulted in a conversation which was short by adult standards, I believe it could be considered much longer by tearful-preschooler-waiting-tearfully-at-the-fence standards, which I must point out cannot be considered standard by any means; regardless, our third tearful goodbye nearly turned into a fourth as I finally drove away and saw her crying at the fence again before being rescued by one of the teachers, who regardless of what Anna might say are delightful and understanding as demonstrated by their kind demeanor as I picked up Anna shortly after lunchtime due to the opportunistic waking of Tara from the second of her 45 minute naps by the cleaning ladies, who as luck would have it arrived to do their job just as I was ready to put Tara to bed and take a much needed shower, which was of course canceled instead, though at this point I can at least say that the house is clean despite my inability to get any sort of tasks accomplished today, save for the making of an appointment to take my car to the dealer, which is not so much an accomplishment as an arrangement to accomplish something at a later time, but I guess that’s better than nothing, which it feels exactly what I accomplished today.