I’ve been quite busy with family and school obligations.  I know I took 12 hours of classes EVERY semester in college…but for the life of me, I don’t know how I did it.  I only have 6 hours this semester and it is killing me.  Of course when I went before I didn’t have children and all the other things that come along with a family to deal with.  Plus I lived in a much smaller abode and didn’t have anyone but me to pick up after.  I guess that’s the difference. 

I went to Barnes and Noble yesterday to get a book for my son.  I got an email saying I could order this book he’s been waiting on and just assumed it was already out.  WRONG!  It doesn’t come out until October 13.  They’re going to have a party that day though.  That might be a fun idea for some family entertainment.  We may have to go.

This weekend DH has one of his class reunions.  He’s looking forward to it.  We have a football game on Friday night.  Apparently, it’s a pretty big deal and they have a full stadium (college stadium) for their games.  They always have THOUSANDS attend.  That just floors me that so many folks have that much “devotion” to their high school that years and years afterwards they still attend these games on a regular basis.  Grant you, I enjoy going back to games from time to time…but these folks go every week.  It was an all male school, so I’m assuming it’s just a guy thing. 

DH’s brother and sister in law offered to keep our daughter while we go because they figure she won’t enjoy the game and she’d rather play with their kids.  I’m always a little sensitive with this sis in law.  I’m not sure I like her.  She often has this way of insulting me that leaves me wondering if she even realized she did it.  Then I wonder at times if I’m not just too sensitive about things due to an earlier experience in our relationship.  What it comes down to is this, I don’t think she likes my son and I’m not very tollerant of folks that are not kind to my children….Several years ago (before she had children of her own) we were visiting with my son.  He is ADHD and had sensory integration disorder.  As a result he is and was often difficult to handle.  We have to be very consistent with expectations and discipline.  Well he had a melt down (which he often did at their home) and she started in on him about his troubles.  I told her I would handle it (as I was in the midst of doing anyway).  She told me she did not believe in ADHD and that it was just a discipline problem.  Oh I was steaming.  To each his own…but that was a MAJOR insult to me and my son when I struggle daily in dealing with it.  I want him to have a good self image.  I want him to realize he is like others in many ways and different too. He is a wonderfully made creation.  He has gifts that make him special and make life easier in some ways and he has handicaps that make life harder for him in other ways.  All children do!  He has to work harder at control and focus than most children do. I don’t need criticism (especially from someone who has no training nor experience with children of her own).  That was sort of the end right there.  I am polite and we go to visit because her husband is my husband’s brother and I want to keep peace in the family but I don’t think I like her. 

 

Did I say, “What a day?” It has been one of those days…but in a good way. It didn’t start off that way. DS had trouble getting out of bed this morning and I ended up leaving him to take his sister to school so that she wouldn’t be late as a result of his lazy self. As a result of having to make a second trip to the school it made me late for what I had planned. I took my computer in for a check by my professor because I was having trouble with an assingment. I spent three hours trying to accomplish what should have taken maybe 10 minutes. What it all came down to is…”I didn’t know how to use my computer!” LOL Well that problem solved, I decided to stop by and get my “student” ID. It is just to funny to me to have a student ID. I  need one in order to use the media center to visit the testing center for my mid-terms. So…now I have my student ID.

As a result of spending some time with my prof, I learned a few other things about my computer and was able to do a little bit of a much needed clean up. It is loading much faster now. I’m still struggling with my connection to the internet though. Guess I’ll just have to live with that for now.

I got home and opened up my email to find a message from aol that I had cancelled. Hmmm? Scratching head! We subscribed to cable recently and I thought maybe that had something to do with it. I called the cable company and low and behold…with the cable bundle we now have aol and road runner. Incredible! I have been toying with the idea for so long now about getting rid of aol as it causes me such a headache at times…but I do like the parental controls that I do not get with other providers. Well…now I can still put my kids on aol (I just won’t explain anything different) and I don’t have to deal with the aol software crap when I use the internet. Woowhoo.

While I’m doing my happy dance over my aol luck, my neighbor calls and needs me to get her son when I get my kids from school and keep him until she returns from a doc visit. I go to get the neighborhood (4 kids now instead of my 2) only to find out DS has to stay after school and I have to make a 4th trip to pick him up an hour later. (He’s in a singing group that is just starting up and I did not realize it started TODAY!)

After that I had to take him to soccer. DH met up with me at soccer and took him to cubscouts while I took DD to a PTA board meeting with me. I was glad when I finally got home. I opened up my email to find a message from an ebay member. To my great pleasure she informed me that a package I had mailed to her August 3rd, had actually arrived at her door yesterday. I was so relieved. It vanished into thin air the second day of mailing. (No insurance… a $40 purchase… didn’t want to loose the income and the books to boot.) I called the postal service and after a long process of wading throught their phone system, was basically told too bad so sad…just wait and hope. I was not happy with that response so emailed them the second time I contacted them. The second person was much more helpful with what I could do about it. She also had my post office contact me. I had the ebayer call her post office and then I filled out a form sent me by my post office to search for it. Apparently they found it! Woowhoo! That was the peaceful end to my hectic, but good, day! Ah! Now I can go to bed without worry.

I’m giving in today and allowing my family to move into the present.  We have not had cable for over 10 years.  I don’t watch that much TV, my husband is a workaholic and doesn’t spend much time in front of the TV and that’s not where I wanted my children to spend their time either.  I felt it a waste of money.  We get reception of 7 or 8 local channels without cable and have managed to keep up with the world through those channels.  But they are all wanting cable.  So I finally said, OKAY!  OKAY!  I’d really like to have access to a couple of channels too.  Home Network, Food Network.  Uh-Oh!  I see the problem already. 

School is coming along.  One class is really easy for me (XHTML).  I’m finding that I make lots of mistakes in my html use…but not for long.   The other class is H-A-R-D for me.  It’s A+ Hardware.  Basically learning how a computer works, how to diagnose hardware problems and how to fix them.  It’s all Greek to me!  I said that to my husband and he replied…”If you’d of taken Greek first then it wouldn’t be so hard!”  It’s just slow going in gaining an understanding of what it’s all about.  I’m really hoping that as it goes along, the pieces will fit together better. 

Happy weekend!

Two blogging days in a row.  Sure hope I don’t cause anyone undue stress with this post. 

This child really worries me!

Yesterday I took a little boy (I’ll call him BB) to school and picked him up for my neighbor.  She does it normally as a favor for BB’s mom, but my neighbor was working at the polls yesterday so I said I would do it for her.  BB was told Friday and Sunday that he would be riding with us.  His mom drops him off at her house at 7:30.  I go out at 8:10 to get the car ready for my kids and have not seen him yet.  I decided to walk out front to look for him.  He’s sitting on my neighbor’s porch…apparently since 7:30.  No one is home and he doesn’t think to check anywhere else.  He just sits there.  This child is 3rd grade!  I’m wondering to myself if I had not gone to check, would he have sat there all day or eventually wondered on to school himself?  It’s just about 3/4 of a mile to walk.  So I remind him he can ride with us today and he says…”Oh yeah!  I forgot!” 

After school I pick BB up along with my kids.  My daughter is all excited about another child in her class, Andrew, who is celelbrating a birthday tomorrow (today).  BB pipes up!  “I know Andrew!”  DD in Kindergarten (who at K, already gets the concept that there is more than one person in this world named “Andrew”) says, “No!  The Andrew in my class!”  BB says, “Yes!  I know Andrew!”  I said, Where do you know Andrew from?  He replies he was in my class last year!  (He’s blowing my mind!  This is not a “special needs” child…although I am wondering at this point!)  I explain to him that it can not be the same Andrew then, because you are in third grade and DD is in Kindergarten.  He says…”He was held back!”  (Oh wow!  Can this child really be thinking this?)  I tell BB that he was in second grade last year and this child is in K.  He can not be the same person.  He tells me, “Maybe he was held back several years!”  Okay?  He would still be in second grade.  They do not put them back in Kindergarten from second grade.  BB responds, Oh?  Okay!  Now this is a child who does fine in school, but he really has me wondering…HOW?

I’m feeling like I’m already behind this week with today being Tuesday.  I have lots to do today, laundry, menu planning, grocery shopping,  appointments to make and homework.

We had a family gathering here on Sunday afternoon and they ended up staying till almost 11 PM.  I was so tired (as were the kids) when they left, but we had a really enjoyable visit.  I got news from one of my sisters about her step son.  He is dating this girl who was once married to a man who is out of control.  This guy was out of jail on parole (don’t know what for) and came looking for her.  She, my nephew and her son had just came home and this guy apparently was hiding nearby.  He entered the house and threatened them with a bat and gun.  My nephew had a cell phone in his pocket and hit the dial button.  His friend on the other end listened in long enough to figure out what was happening and called the police.  When the police arrived, this nut had my nephews head on the table with a gun held to it.  In his car they found a hatchet, plastic bags, rope and rubber gloves.  Pretty scarry!  I’m just glad he had the forsight to call his friend and that the police arrived before it was too late.

I’ve seen this on a few blogs and it looked like fun to me…so here’s mine

1. Wiggle :: My toes
2. Face :: the music
3. Adjustable ::  straps
4. Room ::  for all
5. Easy ::  as pie
6. Store ::  save
7. Maid ::  Please!
8. 9 pm ::  Tired
9. Challenge :: My son
10. Debt ::  None

From:  Unconscious Mutterings

Well, I’m going to get going on my work here and make an effort to get around for some visits.  Hope this week brings us all good things.