Life is a beating me to death....

• Practices are about to start and have started for one.


• My oldest wants to run track and play soccer.
  
• He didnt know they when practices were for track because he only listens to half of what is said.


• This drives me insane. Not just because he never completes anything I want him to but because it also affects his school work and sports. It also isnt very responsible and I think he need to be.


• Dentist and doctors and different doctors and then back to the dentist soon.


• The last time I made appointments for the boys to see the dentist they set the appointment for when the office was closed. I was pissed. They then couldnt see them all at the same time so I get to make 2 trips. Oh happy me.


• Thinking of talking to the doctor about depression.


• Is there a teachers union around here? . How much of students failings are the teachers responsibility and how much the parents and how much the students.


• I think this responsibility changes from parents and teachers to students gradually. I also think that as they get older and are supposed to be responsible for the work and grades and parents are not as much a part of homework and schoolwork it is a teachers responsibility to notice when grades are low and when students are receiving zeros. At that point they should contact the parents. If parents dont know there is a problem until report cards come out then it too late.


• Most of the time when I ask to see my oldest sons papers that I know he has not done so well on he doesnt have them. Either they gave it back and he threw it away or they require them to keep them in a classroom binder. One of his teachers is hard to get a hold of. That same teacher doesnt post grades until the end of the six weeks. This annoys me greatly.


• By the way I love grades being on the internet for parents to access. You can see absents , tardies, and grades (as long as they are posted). If they had that when I was a kid I would have been in trouble. :)

Life

• I saw the donut shop burn today :( I dont like the other one in town and sometimes when we were running late that place was a life saver.
• I hate the weather lately. I wish it would stay like it was today. I had all the windows open and the heat and air off. Yea for the electric bill. I didnt realize that so many people were upset about their bills. It wasnt just me or my MIL.
• There are so many clothes in this house but no ever seems to have something to wear.
• We are finally going to get to see our new niece. The last time we had this planned we didnt get to go cause the hubby was going to have to work but then didnt. I am getting excited about it again.
• This summer we are going to Disney World. My uncle and his family are going too. The kids are excited and I am excited to watch them talk about it.
• My oldest got to miss 3 days of school this week. Tue and Thur for UIL and Wed. the entire grade went to a museum. Well they got to go if they did all their work and didnt get into trouble. That was the condition because sometime ago the school was banned from that museum do to behaivor problems.
• The UIL has some great news and not so great news. He placed 2nd in the test that he took on Thurs. :) Greats little one! The not so great news.....well I kinda want to bitch about so....
• On Tues he went for one test. It is timed. It takes 10 mins. 10 mins. He gets up to go to the bathroom in the middle of it. 10 mins I say. He couldnt wait 10 mins? I could maybe understand if he was sick or something but no he just needed to pee. 10 mins! He was disqualified for it. Sigh 10 mins....
• The littlest one and I had a great convo today as I was trying to figure out why my kids mattress was falling through on one end. (a slat was missing and another moved)
  

Me: What happened to the bed? It wasnt like this yesterday.

Him: I can hold it (the mattress) up with my head.

Me: No thats ok I got it. What the heck how did this get like that?

Him: I dont know.

Me: (as I move a slat down) What happen? Did they break another one? (we have had to replace a few of them do to the kids jumping on the bed)

Him: I know where it is. (he goes and gets it)

Me: Where?

Him: Right here.

Me: How did you know that was there?

Him: Cause I'm a genius.

Did I mention that he is only 4.

Why???

• Why do I do this to myself? I am so stressed out over stuff that I can not change.
• My Valentines Day wasnt great.
• In fact non of my weekend was great or even good.
• The only good thing that happen was my little one got to go to a bday party and had a great time.
• I let my children play in the snow for a while. We went out in it twice. The next day it was melting and a muddy mess.
• Some children came and asked if my older ones could go out and play. Nope we had already been and just finished drying everyone and everything. I felt bad cause they came from a good 6 blocks but they just headed to the next kids house.
• We bundled up and we didnt stay out for more than and hour or so each time but one of my kidos has an ear ache this morning and didnt go to school. Poor thing.
• I was so ready for the kids to go to school this morning. My house has been extremely loud lately.
• I am worried however about the kids grades since the last 2 days of the sixweeks they were not at school so all the late work I made them do might not be accepted, not that I would blame the teachers.

Life...

• I have always thought my kids are pretty well behaved. Well I had a few surprises.
• First the one of my brats flipped off his teacher!!!!! I couldn't believe it. She didn't see it but the other students did. I thought I was going to beat him. I spank my children but I couldn't this time due to I didn't know if I would stop....How unbelievably disrespectful. He knows better. That boy will be working his butt off the next few weeks along with being grounded.
• Next one of the boys calls to ask (he was with his other parent) if he can be dropped off at the park to play with his friends. The answer was sure that will be fine. Out of all the kids who would be doing what he was supposed to I thought it would be him. I was going out but he said not to drive by he was calling him so I don't go next to the park just close enough so I could see. There was not one kid at the park. I was pissed and as I was going back home to see if he had talked to him I see him walking up the street. Turns out he was heading where he was supposed to end up but because he wasn't were he was supposed to be it wasn't the street I expected to see him on. Boy was he in trouble....
• The other boy is just going to be beat. He never seems to listen to what he is told. Well half of it anyway. Either its not done properly or only half done. He has a trash can in his room that was so full he had another bag of trash sitting next to it. I told him for a week to take it out but he kept forgetting. He only took it out when I yelled and screamed and threw a fit and grounded him. Then he said he put it all together so he only had to make one trip. Great it was done, I checked didn't see any more trash. The little shit had the same freaking bag sitting next to his trash can yesterday.
• All of my bigger boys have gotten lazy about doing homework and getting it in on time. I know that they are getting to the age where school work isn't as important to them and they want to hang out with their friends more now but that just doesn't work for me and the whole boys will be boys thing can fly right out the window because that isn't happening either.
• These are the biggest things I have had to deal with so far as a parent so I guess I am lucky but damn they are stressing me out and I know that more is to come.

Stuff...

• Friday we took one of the boys to see and ENT doctor for his hearing loss. I liked him. He was hard for the hubby to understand though. He was great with the little on that decided not to say one word to him. He did giggle once when the doctor acted surprised that a monkey came out of his ear when he looked in.
• His hearing loss is not from nerve damage so it can be fixed. Right now he has a lot of fluid in his ears that could be causing the problem, if not its the little ear bones.
• He may have to get tubes if the fluid doesn't clear up on its own but not yet because this is the first time the doctor has seen fluid in his ears.
• He says that he doesn't even consider it a surgery and for adults he does it in his office but they wont let him do children there.
• We are getting our taxes done this week :) Super excited about it cause we always get money back because we have so much with held.
• Anyone know a place that accepts used toys? I will be cleaning out my young ones room this weekend because there just isn't enough room for all their toys. They are still in good shape though.
• My kids are pretty good. Most everyone tell me they are well behaved and well mannered. The oldest one is pushing my limits.
• When my hubby was talking the my MIL about punishing him she told him to remember that he will be old enough to chose to live with his mother in a year. I went crazy pissed off when he told me about it.
• First I wont play the game of I am mad at you so I am going to live with my other parent game. If he leaves he will stay with her until he finishes school.
• Second there are some other issues that would have to be addressed and she would have to take us to court.
• Our kids have cores to do they are set every week and they usually have to help out with other stuff too. They are lucky and have a lot and get to do a lot. I don't think they know that and it drives me nuts.
• I feel like i am just floating through life right now.