Any other venters? Just got summer schedule...mine's the worst!! lol

[Azgymmiemom]

Okay, let me just preface this by saying, I'm reallly looking just to vent, and maybe for a few sympathetic virtual pats on the back. After all, I put myself in this position of having a boy and a girl on team...

well, we had a staff meeting at the gym today (yes, I am staff...I work the front desk, yadda, yadda...business end two weeks a month and every tuesday.)

sooo...they announced the summer schedule (just june and july, thank goodness...I really don't think i could handle this for more than two months...I may not survive the two months!!!)and the girls team is not going to work out with the boys team. Girls level 5 will practice m t th f from 8-noon. boys level 4 will practice t th f from noon-3. (possibly all team together friday in the morning....my fingers are crossed for that one)

now, if this wasn't bad enough-remember how I said I work in the front office? well, that's rec hours.....3:30-8pm.

And we live 30 minutes from the gym. I'm sure between me, my mom, a close friend of mine(who lives by us and has a level 6 at our gym) and my son16 who drives now, we will maybe be able to figure the logistics of this nightmare out. But right now, I am still in a bit of a dazed, overloaded shock about this.

someone just shoot me now and put me out of my misery....

 

[Optionals United]

ohh my goodness!! some of my teammates have had a problem with that before because we practice in the morning and they stayed the same in the summer. it drove her parents crazy! I hope it all figures itself out.((HUG))

 

[mariposa]

Oh geez, that is crazy. Hope you survive!!

 

[UnoMas]

yikes. Well, it will go by really fast for sure!!!!! You will not be bored! Am I helping? Hee hee.
Our gym does not change hours at all during the summer except we have a 40 hr team camp one week...so my girls get to be home during the day in the summers and practice at night. It's kind of good. I am not a big fan of change, so I'm good with it.
You'll make it! I know you will!

 

[Shewhodrives]

Oh no, those are long days! UGH, hoping that Friday does work out for you.

 

[Granny Smith]

I guess you really should have the yellow sign for your car that says "Gym Taxi!" It's only 2 months. I hate the summer schedule that my dd has, but I just look at it as 8 weeks long and do the countdown!

 

[Azgymmiemom]

thanks, all. I knew you'd help me feel better, lol! Just call me the little engine that could...all summer you are going to hear me muttering under my breath, "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can..." there's a coffee house near the gym-that helps. And I will be sooooooo glad to see August this year...even if it WILL be 115 degrees outside!!!

I so wanna smack the mom's that come in and complain about having to bring their kid into the gym for 2 whole hours twice a week, saying, "I'm not sure if I can handle that kind of committed schedule..."

 

[GymnastJoy]

Adding my sympathies for your summer gym schedule. And I'm still reeling from your dd having an 8:00am practice in the SUMMER! So much for sleeping in when school's out. Maybe you can find a cozy place to sleep at the gym. :O

 

[NGL780309]

At least you can be grateful that you have your summer schedule! We don't have one yet and I've heard we don't normally get it until just a week or two before it starts. That really makes it difficult to make any other plans for the summer. I actually hope she has an 8am practice. I like for DD to get up early, get it over with and have the rest of the day free.

 

[lhmom]

We've heard that the only change in DD's schedule will be Friday practice (will be earlier than usual). The other 2 days remain the same. AZgymmiemom, your schedule sounds similar to what one of our gym moms had to go through last summer. She has 3 kids on team (2 girls and 1 boy) and their schedules were "staggered". It was crazy! I'm grateful that I just have one. Whew!

 

[Azgymmiemom]

I honestly don't mind the 8 am start. It's too hot out here to go four hours at a time in the hottest part of the day. And NGL...I was hoping to have the days free, too. Now we can't even plan anything together as a family because someone will be at the gym. I just wish the boys were practicing at 8, too. I still have two months...maybe I can coerce someone to show me some sympathy and change it...oh, well, I can dream....

I hope these kids appreciate the sacrifices us gym moms make. And my dh gets out of it waaaay to easily...I mean, he just goes to work, lol!!

 

[Blazing15]

Wow you will have a very busy summer. I feel for ya. We are trying to figure out how to get DD to gymnastics this summer. She will go Monday & Wednesday from 3 - 6 which isn't bad hours but she goes on Thursday from 9-12. It's hard when you have a two parent working household and I don't get off work until 4:30 and my husband gets off at 3:30. So we are having to try to find someone to take her and pick her up on the Thursday and just someone to take her on the Monday and Wednesday.

 

[maddiemei]

Wow you will have a crazy schedule. I'm actually excited about my dd's. It will be Mon-Fri 8:30 - 12:30. My other dd will be going to camp at the gym all day and then when dd finishes gym she will move over to the camp. It's a great camp. They have a pool and everything. With tuition and paying for camp, it actually works out cheaper than sending them to a daycare all summer. I'm just excited that our evenings will be free even if it is just for 2 months .

 

[my4buffaloes]

That is terrible, but at least it is the same every day. Last summer dd practiced 10-2 one day, 12-4 another day, and the third day 4-8. She couldn't do anything else all summer because everything conflicted with gymnastics. I am dreading this summer and hoping they will pick a time and stick with it for the whole summer.

 

[Billy]

I'm pretty happy about our RUMORED summer schedule, though many parents are not (going from nights to days is hard on working parents). Right now it's sounding like 8:30 - 12:30 M-F. Works for me!