Tanner's Menu

With school starting one week from today, I really need to iron out a few things. This year will be unlike any other--EVER--not only because I have a baby, but because school will start earlier. So, I have written down my game plan and we'll see how it works. I did a trial run the other day and I was a basket case trying to remember if I had everything in the truck that both Tanner and I would need throughout the day. Also, Tanner wouldn't cooperate and kept crying because he wasn't being held while I got ready.
Looking at my itinerary, the 12:05 pm pump time will depend on students getting out of my room quickly and going on to lunch, since my lunch is only 25 minutes as it is! I have a closet in my classroom with no windows and a lock on the outside, plus a fridge in my room to store the milk. I had planned on taking fresh milk over to the daycare during my conference hour, but it seems that will be unlikely. Washing dishes will be an issue due to my time constraints. I may not have much of a conference hour this year due to it being taken up with pumping milk and washing the pump parts for the next go 'round. (Hope I don't have any parents actually needing me on my conference-haha-what will I tell them?) Plus the hot water in my classroom is full of sulfur and stinks up the whole room, so I will have to wash the pump parts in cold water and then microsteam them. No time to run to the home-ec room to wash parts. Tobin will help me some in the mornings because it will be hectic getting us both ready and out the door by 6:30am. I was barely out of the shower by that time last year and hard a hard enough time getting there by 7:45. I'm just not a morning person. Tobin and I will both need to be in bed by 8pm if only Tanner will cooperate!

• up at 4:45am and try to shower unless Tanner needs food
• pump from 5:15 to 5:35
• leave house by 6:30
• drop Tanner off at daycare at 7am
• be at school by 7:10 (virtually impossible--10 minutes!)
• pump from 8:45-9:05 in the classroom closet
• eat lunch and pump in the closet from 12:05-12:25
• school is out at 2:30, so I'll pick Tanner up at daycare and pump again at home around 3:30 OR pump again at school and pick up tanner by 4:15 or so. 4:30 at the latest!

I could possibly have to wash dishes and pump at school 3x!! YUCK! Guess I need to buy a dish washing bin and keep some Dawn liquid at school and use the lab sink in my classroom?! haha Lunch will be boring and I won't get to eat with the other teachers. This will be a real challenge to keep Tanner on breast milk for at least the first 6 months of his life. Of course the stock in the freezer will carry him through a few more months after that. The black tray seen in the pic is full of 6oz servings. Actually, we have breast milk stored in 4 different freezers. Three here at the house and some frozen milk at my mother's. Just in case any freezer dies or anyone loses power. The goal is to keep Tanner on breast milk through Christmas break. Wish me luck!