Baseball...

Drama....

This crap drives me nuts.  We need to play a make up game now :(  All the games in Bport were canceled Monday due to the holiday.  That happened over a month ago by our commissioner.  Well the team we were scheduled to play showed up and said they didn't know the game was rescheduled. They were the only ones there, no umps, no concessions, every thing locked up tight. Really? they were the only team that showed up that day and there were 3 games (at least) that had been moved to Tuesday.  He called our coach and asked him if we were going to play and he was told then no the game was moved to Tuesday and we would see him then.  So last night we all get ready to play and they don't show up. We call and he said he didn't know the game had been rescheduled.   Yes he did he just wanted to be a pain in the ass.  So the baseball president has to say reschedule the game. SO we tried... and tried.... and tried.  Play offs start Monday, and they are setting the schedule and brackets Saturday morning. It has to be made up by then.  SO we asked them to play Wednesday in neutral town. No we either have to play in Bport or their town. We already played them there and were are not doing it again.  A little unfair to get home field advantage twice.  So we off Thursday. Nope cant do it. We have finals and graduation.  Well what finals are you going to have the last day of school, especially when its only a half day?  And we looked it up the school website says graduation is at 5. Why cant they play a game at 8?  That's right because they don't really want to.  So we offer Friday and Saturday morning but he cant do that either because he is going out of town with his son those days.  So he has said no to every single day for a possible make up.  We want someone to day this is the day and time for your makeup game either show up and play or forfeit.  We are waiting for that call today.

Now let me tell you why all that matters.  Our kids have worked their butts off and have made it to the play offs tied for first right now. Each team only has one loss (to each other). The problem is if we don't play this game they will have one more win than we do and that will drop us into second.  The first place team gets a bye in the first round of play offs.  Now if they make up this game and lose that's one thing but to just take away first place after they have worked so hard is just wrong.  The other coach not wanting to make up the game is for just the opposite. He has the same number of wins as the team placed below him however he has one less loss right now.

Ok so this is Drama #2

When 2 teams go undefeated during the season when they meet it makes for interesting games.  The first one we lost :( it was a hard one the second time we played at their field and even before we knew how good they were we worried about playing there because everyone had been talking about their umps being home town umps and even threw out a few coaches.  When we played in bport there was a little drama.  We didn't like some of the calls but then the other coach was talking shit to our coach while he was coaching the bases.   Being a class A jackass.  Well let me tell ya our head coach is 21 and a good friend of ours.  Well his dad was there. Long story short the coach told the dad to  be a fan and let the coaches handle the field.  Dads response: "Because that coach you are being such a prick to is me son."  The other coach didn't say another word while he was standing there.  However he did say something to him again and I don't have a clue what it was but it was enough to make my husband ( who is the assistant coach) ask him if he wanted his ass kicked. I know not the right thing to do and he was told to shut his mouth. After that all seems to go ok. Games over we lose.  Then we play in their town.  First drama there.. the book keeper says we are batting the same kid twice. Nope. Our last batter was ___. Then they say that kid isn't even on the line up and he is an out.  Well let me tell ya our book keeper is picky. She marks everything and you don't tell her her books are wrong.  She gets pissy.  Well turns out he was on the line up they just forgot to write him down.  Then the field umps tells our first baseman that he cant stand on the bag. He has to stay off it and out of the base line or the runner is automatically safe.  We have to tell him he is wrong and have the plate ump tell him the rules.  Then one of the boys on our team hits a home run.  The kid in the out field trying to catch the ball calls it a home run, the plate ump calls it a home run, the first base ump calls it a bounce over and he has to stop at second. Well eventually we just said we are petitioning the call and if we lose we will petition the game but we won so there was no need to petition.   So apart from bad calls (and I do mean bad calls) for the whole game from the first base ump the rest of the game was without too much drama.  Oh apart from the other team kids talking crap and ours starting to respond ( one of mine being the main one. oh did I rip him a new one) and our coach yell loud enough for everyone to hear that his players were not going to act like that or stoop to that level of ball play because they were better than that.  At that point the other coach put a stop to their taunting as well.  Not a great experience but not too bad either.

Now all that being said there is a parent from the other team talking all kinds of trash about our head coach (on fb non the less). Telling people he has had the cops called on him 3 or 4 times (not true by the way) that he threatened to whoop someones ass in the parking lot after the game, he was flipping people off and cussing at everyone including the kids. That he is a 21 year old punk that is a terrible coach and shouldn't even be allowed to coach.  As I said we know him, he is a friend of ours. He doesn't cuss at the kids, he doesn't flip people off and the man my argue with you for hours but he is not going to threaten to kick your ass after the game because he is not a fighter. We knew him as a coach (football) before we ever knew him as a friend.  He is a damn good baseball coach.  He is 21, he has no kids. The only reason he does this is because he enjoys it. Every time he rips one of the boys a new one about some thing , not only does he tell them how to fix what they are doing wrong but also tells them something they are doing right. And when they do fix it he lets them know how great they are doing.  He has not only worked on the mechanics of baseball but also the game.  Its fun to watch.  I think he is the best baseball coach my kids have ever had; friend or no friend.

As I was typing this I realized that this lady talking about our coach may have him confused with another teams coach because I do believe that some of that did happen on another team.  And he was a really young coach as well.  I do believe that the commissioner told him he wasn't allowed to coach any more and I have noticed that he is no longer on the field when that team plays.

Tears..

I have shed a lot of them lately. Some of them sad, some happy, and some oh my how them time has flown by.  Regardless of the reason I have decided they are not my friend.  The most recent ones not even relieving some of the frustration that caused them in the first place.  So not worth the puffy face and red eyes.

Life and stuff...

• Today is my baby's birthday. He is seven :( I got him a shirt that says "It's safer to assume I have ninja skills"  It is so him and he loves it.  He also changed what he wanted at the last minuet from a Kindle fire to golf clubs...He got the kindle because I already had it.
• I have calmed down since my rant.  I didn't get to speak to the principal again though.  Well not about that incident. 
• He did call the next day because he had another one of my children in his office.
• Really? What is wrong with my children? Where have their manners and good behavior gone?
• Well he called before he talked to him.  Evidently he and his friends thought it would be funny to make snide comments to him about parents yelling at him and then crack up at their own jokes.
• I did give him the stern "That conversation was for the adults not you and your friends."  However I am not sure what the principal expected.  I told him I couldn't handle talking to him at that point and I would lose my temper with him and he still continued and even took it to a place where teachers and children alike were walking by and through.
• Even though I didn't get to talk to him about what happen the other day he did get my point and that he was not to talk to my children again with out me first.
• Baseball is almost over. I am both happy and sad about it. I am tired of running all over the place but man do I love to watch my boys play.
• They all have gotten better and one is just getting his confidence about hitting the ball. I am going to hate to see him start all over next season.
• Yesterday we were supposed to play cards with some friends. We ended up having a few extras so no cards :(
• I did have 2 bottles of wine though.  When I was half way done with the second one I was checking the alcohol content because I was thinking man I should be drunk by now.   About 10 mins later I was feeling it.
• Wine makes me silly.
• I would say I am surprised I didn't have a hang over but I slept until noon today :) Well minus the part where I woke up my little man and gave him his presents.
• I had something else but now I cant remember.....

Rant.

Really pissed off!  Today I got a call from the middle school vice principal.  He wanted to ask me if my High school student had one of the middle school calculators. Really?  Why would he have one? Shouldn't they have asked about it last year not at the end of this year?  Well turns out one of my children said during class that his brother had one of those at home before and he would just like me to look for it. OK he has had one but I am pretty sure he turned it in and any that he had this year would have come from the high school. So we will look.

Then I pick up my children from school and this is the story I get:
 I ask my child (son #1) Why the hell would you say that your older brother (son #2) has a middle school calculator?  I didn't I said he had one like the one my teacher was using.  They called my other child (son#3) to the office  tell him it can be easy or hard and accused him of taking it and told him not to lie, they already know he has it. To tell the truth. Was he saying his brother was a liar? Then they called  the other one # 1 in and asked him. When he said he was talking about his older bother  #2 they told him not to lie that his teacher said he told her son #3 had it.  Then they called the teacher in and she said oh he is right he did say his brother.  Then the principal called me and also the High school to see if my older son had checked out a calculator.

First off who the hell are they to accuse my child of taking something when he is telling them he doesn't have it and never did or to tell him he is lying?
Second why the hell do they need to call in my other child and pretty much call him a liar to?
Third who the hell are they to call my the high school and ask about my older child?  He is non of their damn business. If they need something from him or thought he had a something from over a year ago then they should have asked for it along time ago.  If the damn thing wasn't missing at the start of school he didn't have the damn thing from the year before.

The vice principal got an ear full this afternoon. He will most likely get another one tomorrow afternoon.  I had to go in to get the one of the boys that stayed after to take a test and as I was walking out I saw both the principal and the vice principal.  I went in and told him that I would like to talk to him tomorrow sometime after 1 (because I am subbing in the morning).  He asked about what and I told him #3 and the calculator but I didn't want to do it right then because I was too mad and I couldn't do it respectfully. He then told me that I needed to ask the boys about it and what happen.  When I told him I had and that wanted to talk about it tomorrow he said he would call me after 130 because he had lunch duty.  Well then when I turned and walked away he followed me telling how I really need to talk to the boys about what happen because he told the teacher one of them had the calculator and she thought  it was on in the middle school. He continued to follow me through a second door and I turned and let into him. How dare he call my child a liar and accuse him of stealing . That was the second time they have miss treated my child and I was not going to have.  Then he had the balls to bring in that he was the one that corrected the problem before but he wasn't I was. I found out in five minuets last time that what they were saying was wrong and all it took was to ask his teacher if he was in class. I am not unreasonable, I do not think my children or perfect and I am harder on my children than anyone ever could be but they are not going to miss treat my kids.  Through all of this he was insistent that I speak with my children and that I would understand. I did speak with them again when I got home. I listened to both of them tell me the story about what happen and fill in the blanks that the other one didn't know. Guess what?  I am more pissed than I was in the first place.

I still want a meeting with both the principal and the vice principal I have told them before but I will be telling the again  neither of them or anyone else in that school is to speak to any of my children before they call me and talk to me.  I hope that next time I tell him that I want to wait until I have calmed down he will listen.

Busy Busy Busy!

This time of year is always so busy.

Baseball is great! The younger one has won his last 2 games. They actually look like a ball team now. Its fun to watch.

There are still occasions where they have no idea where to throw the ball but that's the fun heart attack part. Right?

The older ones? Well we are going for an undefeated season! Lets hope it keeps going this way!

I have been busy busy busy!

I have picked out my flowers. Now I am just waiting to hear back from the lady to see if she can do it.

I have purchased my dress. I cant wait for it to get here!

I cant believe how much fun it was to go dress shopping. My mom went with me. It didn't take as long as I thought it would. (Most likely why I think it was fun)

I have sick ones! Yuck. Little one came home from school with a head ache. By bedtime he was running a good fever. Another one was sent home with the same head ache.

Sprint is driving me nuts. First we wanted to add our phones to the same account as our kids. (we had to wait for the contract to end at ATT) We were told it would be better for us to have 2 accounts. We did.

Now our kids are getting data plans and we all need to be on the same account. We were assured we would be able to do this. Yea but what a pain in the ass!

I spent hours on the phone with them the past 2 days. Its finally done and I finally ordered new phones.

2 iphones and a reflex? We are making them pay the extra it cost for them to have the smart phones.

One chose not to. With his saving on his phone and phone bill he bought himself a Kindle Fire. His brother are jealous right now.

His little brother also got one. He returned his Ipod he got for his birthday.

I cant believe he is 8 already. So grown up.

He is at the why do I have to stage and the No stage. I don't think either will last long because I don't put up with that shit.

My kids are not perfect but I consider them pretty well mannered and good kids. When I see kids who are not I try to keep my children away from them as much as possible.

Recently I have noticed how critical I am of kids behavior. I wonder if its just the kids I have seen around are terrible?

One day at baseball games my son and another boy were fighting. I just about beat him. Didn't even ask what was going on or why. I pulled both of them down and found the other boys parents. I was pleased to see that they were just as pissed as me. Both boys spent the rest of the night next to mom.

My kids went to a party over the weekend. It was for family. 2 things: 1 Even though I told the father there was a card with money don't forget to get it or lose it. The kid didn't get it. 2 There was a kid there that flat out lied to me about being allowed to ride on the back of a go cart. Grr. He would have been done for the day if it were up to me...but it wasn't!

Otherwise it was a pretty cool party.

After report cards I have a kid that has to study for at least one hour every day whither or not he has home work. Any zeros and he is grounded!

I am getting about 10 calls a day to sub for one of the schools now. I know its the end of the year and all but don't you think the last 6 weeks are just as important as the others? I know they say the kids check out this time of year but I think its maybe because the teachers do too.

I have been to 2 field trips in the last few weeks. They were both pretty neat. One to the science museum and planetarium and the other to the Stockyards.

The museum I am hoping that we can go back over the summer with all the boys. I think even the older ones will enjoy it. Its was mostly about gross body functions. Gas, vomit, sneezing, snot, poop, burbing. And because its for the kids it is mostly interactive.

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• The Stockyards were fun too. I have been so many times I cant count them but we saw things I didn't even know were there.  The Cowboy museum, something they called the herd were we watched them tell us all about how they deal with the cattle and a mini cattle drive, and then the best part of the whole thing. It was a walking tour.  We saw a few of the buildings, the arena, the cat walk. We also got to see a live auction. It was pretty cool.
• Ok this is way too long.....