Just bitching....

I managed to piss of my MiL and my husband yesterday. It is carring over to today and started the day off bad. Our oldest son asked my MiL for a pair of shorts that she had at her house and I got on to him about it(well grounded him, had he not been watching tv he would have been ungrounded before we went to football practice). The main reason is he shouldnt be asking someone else (I dont care who) for something he needs for school before he even tells us that he needs it. (they are for athletics, he has some at home but wanted a certain pair). When they are grounded they can not go to my MiL cause she doesnt deal with it. (not because she is being mean just because she doesnt want to. she likes to spoil her grandkids and give them whatever they want) It has now become a big deal, even though he has the shorts (the hubby brought them home for him) and is was wearing them this morning. Just let it go its a Freaking Pair of Shorts. Its not worth a fight.

Of course there is more to this story but do I really need to list the all the things that piss me off about it.

School....

• The kids went back to school yesterday. :) :( *I am happy and sad at the same time*


• I had one start Kindergarten. I cried big tears when I got home, and told everyone I talked to I was fine.


• He did really really well and was ready. I had a hard time getting him to talk to me enough to even tell me bye.


• When I picked him up he was excited to tell me all about the gingerbread man that ran away when they left the classroom. They looked all over the school for him. Someone caught him and they baked him. He got to eat the whole mouth and it was two colors not just one.


• The teacher made my day. She said he did really well and he was very good and very polite.


• The 5th graders were dropped off in the morning at the curb.


• When I picked them up I didnt pull all the way up because I was 20 mins early and wanted to park in the shade. A bunch of people honked at me but there was plenty of room for them to go around and pull up there. It is hot and didnt want to sit in the sun. I had to wait and extra 5 mins because one of them was busy talking to his friend.


• I got the "Fine." and "Good." one word answers to the How was your day question.


• I never did get much more than that from them.


• Now the 7th grader (OMG he is in the 7th grade!) Well he wouldnt shut up when he go into the car. Drove me crazy telling me about all the stuff that happen yesterday, including a schedule change because they didnt put him in his preAP science.

**I will try to get a pic up here later of them one the first day of school but my camera is having problems. :(

SPORTS

FootBall-

• My kids coach from last year asked me if they were going to play. Made sure I knew that they had to be signed up and wanted to be sure I knew to put the head coach on the sign up.
• They ended up on someone elses team. I was somewhat surprised. He (the new coach) coached my oldest son last year. I like him. I am not sure how I felt though because I really really liked the other guy.
• I the old coach yesterday and asked him what happen. He said they were one of the first to go in the draft for their grade. It didnt help him that he and his assistant coaches all have kids in their grade so he had to sit out the first 4 or 5 rounds for that grade.
• The boys missed a few practices when they stayed with my Dad. I was worried but they jumped right back in there and are doing ok.
• One of their teammates broke his arm on Saturdays practice. :( Poor kid. I wonder if his parents are going to get their money back ? We havent played one game.
• I am really excited to see how the team does this year.

MS Football-

• My oldest son is going ot be playing football for the school now. Damn he is getting older.
• We got his pads last night. Well they gave them to him and he put them in his locker. I didnt even get to check them :( Whats a Mom to do?
• This is the first year that he hasnt been in a BYA sport. A few of the moms wanted to know if a woman needed to organize it to make it go faster. :) That is so true. When the moms were doing it, it never took that long.
• He is going to have early practice before school. Damn I have to get up earlier. Sigh.
• I cant wait to see his games though.

Soccer-

• I only have one playing soccer this year.
• I havent heard from his coach yet.
• I think he is going to be in the next age group this year. I am supper excited about it :)
• So is he.
• The youngest one didnt want to play this year. Surprise. Surprise. He never wanted to play in the game last year. Maybe he will grow out of it, or into another sport.

Thats all I got for now. We have one more meet the teacher to night then I will tell you all about them. I am not ready for it. Sigh.

OK For Real now...

• I havent been too busy, just not in the mood to blog lately.
• We did get one of those blue pools. Its great. The kids love it. Hell I love it. Its really nice just to be able to get in and cool off a little.
• We went school clothes shopping a few weeks ago. I am glad because now I dont have to fight the crowds and there was more to choose from. Last year waited for the tax free weekend. It was a mess and I couldnt find anything.
• I bought all of my younger sons' (?) clothes from JCPenny's. I love that place at school time. They have great sells and their kids clothes are super cute.
• The older 3 boys and I went to the mall to go shopping. Sigh. It took forever. They are not quite big enough to go to the specialty/named stores. So we went to every department store there. Man I remember finding alot of stuff at sears last year but man that store looked really run down and didnt have hardly any clothes.
• I didnt buy all the school supplies until this week and of course there are some things that we cant find. My opinion about this is o' F'in well. I think the list is....well...BULL SHIT.
• Why are we asked to supply the teachers supplies? What I mean by this is the 10 red pens, the dry erase markers, the card stock, rolls of tape for their tape dispensers, ect..
• If 20 students bring 10 red pens that is 200 red pens. They are only in school for 169 days. Really teachers need more than one red pen a day? I know they need them for grading but damn thats alot.
• The school should be providing the teachers with teaching supplies. I dont mind supplying all the scissors and glue or even the 3 packs of 24 and the 3 packs of 8 crayons. I know they will us them and go through them. I draw the line at rolls of tape. I am not doing it!
• My kids were gone for 5 days. Well they left on a Thursday and came home the next Tuesday. They stayed with my Dad and Step Mom.
• It was PEACEFUL! The house stayed clean. I got to have a date with the hubby. We went out with friends. I got to sleep in without having to be woke up a million and one times. It was really really nice......for the first few days.
• By Sunday we missed the kids. I needed some little guy kisses and hugs. It made it so much worse that the hubby wouldnt shut up about it and was in a bad mood. He wanted me to pick them up early. Ok so I wanted to, too but I wasnt having any of it because I knew they had plans.
• They got to go do some things that I had planned to take them to but found out later that it would be to expensive. I was really sad that I missed it but glad they go to do it.
• On the too expensive note we are saving for a trip to disney world next year. We havent told the kids about it yet because I have looked up the prices and man they are high. For the seven of us to go we are looking at around $8000. This is hard for me to swallow, because I know there are alot of things we could do with that much money.
• We are looking for cheaper means of going.
• I am already thinking about Christmas. We have a large family and I would like to be done shopping except for the kids big presents before November. I know this sounds crazy, but life will be easier and less stressful for me.

Update

Ok this is an update because I am told that I need to up date this.


Is that a good enough update for you Michele?