Yes, we made it!!! You'd think we were on some crazy, intense schedule right?!?!?
Well, it kind of felt that way this week. It started off really good, everyone was eager, getting ready on time, making sure any type of homework that was given (which was really just given to Jr. the first day and Mom Jr. followed the following day with her work) was done and neatly I might add from Jr.
Wednesday rolls around, you know the day I said we had back to school night and Mom Jr. had her last night of her summer sessions of dance. Thursday morning hits, and Mom Jr. gets up extra early so that she can take a shower before school since she got home late the night before. She asks me to put her hair up in a high pony tail. Okay, so I've mentioned before my husband is 6'5", I'm 5'6", my daughter is close to reaching my height and she's 10 years old!!!!
I can't see the top of her head to hold up her hair enough to get it up there, so I grab a chair and stand up on it. She says "No, you didn't just stand on top of a chair to put my hair in a high pony" "Um, yes I did, since I don't have Inspector Gadget arms to hold your hair up high enough to put the pony on!". Unbelievable!! I myself couldn't believe the measures I had to go to to put her hair up!! Ugh, I can just see my future with these children of mine who are going to high tower me........me, looking straight up with my finger pointing at them as I try to discipline them....them looking down at me with a smirk on their face "yeah, sure, Mom whatever you say".
Lucky I have a strong voice because that and my "mean Mom look" is going to have to get me through the times their Dad is at work!!!
On we go, school is waiting. Now, Jr. has a hard time staying focused on what he is supposed to have done. For this reason with all of them I constantly say "does everyone have their lunch, water, homework??" Jr. always says yes. First day of school Jr. leaves his brand new lunch pail outside at school, Wednesday comes around Jr. forgets his water bottle in class but swears he remembers bringing it home, Friday, oh Friday, I take them to school, go to Target, get home, hear a message from my Aunt who is staying with my Grandma while my Mom is out of town saying they wanted to come over and visit for a while, I look at the counter and what do I see? Jr. has now forgotten his lunch!! There it sits, on the counter. Did I not ask if they all had their things for school? Did he not reply with a "yes"?!?! I'm talking to Daddy on the phone and telling him "well, now I have to put Squiggly back in her seat one more time and get J to get back in the car to take Jr. his lunch" Daddy says "No, don't take it to him, let him not have lunch for the day". "But that means all day he has nothing, no snack and no lunch?""Too bad, next time he'll make sure he has it". I thought for a minute "I can't do that","yeah, I know you can't but you take it he'll just know if he forgets it next time you'll bring it" "the school will either allow him to call me or they'll just let him charge a school lunch","yeah, well, we didn't say he could do that". Daddy knows me too well, I can't let my kids go all school day with no food, especially my absent minded son who will starve down to his feet if he is not fed on schedule.
Back in the car Squiggly, J, and I go. We get to the school J is carrying Jr.'s lunch. We get to his classroom right when J says "Mama I too tired to carry this anymoe!!". I open the door as the teacher is in the middle of a lesson. I tell J "see, he's up there in the very front just walk along the side here and take it to him". Just then the teacher (who was Mom Jr.'s teacher last year) turned around to continue with his lesson to the class as he saw J walking over to Jr. and Squiggly and I standing at the door. The teacher says "Oh we have a little someone bringing something to someone" Now the whole class turns around including Jr. J hands Jr. his lunch and Jr. looks towards me, the whole class look at me as well. I look at Jr. and point at him "You owe me sentences". I say good bye and walk out with J and Squiggly....
Finally we're done, we come home, go about our normal day or what is left of it before again we go out to pick up the other 3.
With the 3 in school J is pretty calm compared to when they are here. Squiggly is able to take a nap without all the noise, served lunch to both, they played and then it was time to go. Squiggly falls asleep on the way, I stick her in the stroller, and on we go. One of my Mom best friends meets me, we talk as we walk to pick up our kids. Get our kids, back to the car, get home, Jr. has a paper waiting for him to write his 50 sentences saying "I will try to be more responsible". He didn't question me, didn't whine about it, just took the paper, went to his room and got busy.
Daddy got home, played a little with Squiggly, J ended up falling asleep, Jr. finished his sentences and Daddy told him "you're lucky it wasn't me cause I wouldn't haven't taken your lunch to you".
Squiggly left, Daddy took Jr. and J as well as Mom Jr. who went along knowing one of her best buddies was going to be waiting for her (of course she was it's her brothers birthday party) to the birthday party. We were all invited which would've been nice to go but J was asleep so I stayed home with him.
Ugh, the first week of school is completed, back to school night- done, summer dance session-done, the first birthday party of the school year-about done,
Just a Mom taking a deeeeeeep breath between events!!!!
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