How long can this possibly take?

This week has been tremendously positive compared to last week. I worked for a few hours yesterday, got all the logos cut out and decided to go out to dinner last night. I discovered that we have an Applebee's 2 1/2 miles away. I can't believe it took me this long to find it. I'm sure Kelly knew of it as she traveled through Greentree more frequently that I. Glenn and I shared the 2 for $20 special and Cameron had an appetizer trio (cheeseburgers, spinach dip and buffalo wings). At dinner Glenn told me that he was interested in taking Cameron to the Pirates' opening day on April 13th.

Today, I got up took Cameron to O/T then drove downtown to get tickets to the game only to discover that the box office was closed. Well, not closed I found out, I just went to the wrong side of the building. In Florida, the Everblades have 1, count 'em 1, set of box offices. So we drove home and started looking online for tickets. Let me go back a little. While driving, I got the bright idea to call Pappy to see if he wanted to join them for the game. A nice boy with his dad and grandpa day. Pappy mentioned that maybe his parents and brother wanted to join them. So I was up to 5 or 6 tickets. As the Pirates basically "suck" I thought "no problem," and started looking. We only needed 5 tickets as Uncle Jerry did not want to go, but Grandma Wilma and Grandpa George did. There were absolutely NO tickets other than an occasional 1...actually the same ticket kept appearing on the website. As Grandma is a little wobbly I thought hmmm maybe I can get handicapped seats so I called PNC Park. Joe found us 2 in handicapped and needed to search out 3 others. An hour or two later he called and had 5 tickets in section 131 for us. Now I need to call Pappy back for approval as Grandma is nervous about foul balls. Section approved! I call back and end up with John as my new rep and he moves us to section 132 as we don't really need wheelchair accessible spots. Now my son and husband will enjoy a 4 generation family day at PNC Park on Opening Day for the Pittsburgh Pirates! I hope Glenn remembers to take the camera and get some good pictures for the blog and facebook.

Now for the story behind the title. Today is Wednesday, Cameron's resource and testing day. His teachers in their infinite wisdom assigned an open ended essay question in two separate classes. For most kids this is a quick type it up, email it and go about my day scenario. For my child, it is read, play, procrastinate, whine, type a sentence, repeat! We have been on this since about 12:45, it's 5:53 right now and he has typed about 5 sentences. He has to have both of the assignments AND a spelling test emailed/submitted by 8 p.m. I'm afraid to let him break for dinner or we'll never get it in on time. Next week is PSSA's and I fear that he will not be able to complete the written/essay portion of the test in the time allotted. I know that I cannot hold his scores to Kelly's standards, but, I worry that if the written portion lowers his score too much he'll be retained in 4th grade. His class grades have been A's and B's so he can do the work. Okay, I'm back. I gave in and helped him finish typing the Science question and submitted them. Now he is working on his Spelling Test so I'm going to go make dinner. Glenn was supposed to work late so we planned sloppy joes and macaroni and cheese. Yummy!