we have been enjoying the warm weather lately and i am so happy to get the kids outside to run around. we have a new playset in the backyard for them to enjoy and we may add a sand box around jamie's birthday. andrew has started lacrosse and i am going to see about switching him to a team that has more experienced players as he is on one with kids playing for the first time, so he is pretty bored. he played his first game this past weekend and played really well, but his team got beat 9-0. he wasn't down about the score, just sort of irritated that others on the team are unsure of how to play. he is thinking about trying out for a travel team as well, he just hasn't decided yet. kiera is still plugging along in school, reading tons and really enjoying writing. we are looking into horseback riding lessons for her in the summer. we found one farm that is small and the price is not horrible, but it is still a lot of money every month for her to ride. the thing i like about this farm though is that they have the kids be responsible for the horses, getting them ready to ride as well as cleaning them up after riding. once she gets to middle school age, if she does this that long, then she could work at the farm and even lease a horse. she was very excited about it all when i talked to her about it last night. jamie is a weirdo still, making us laugh all the time. we were at the airport the other day and he was grabbing himself and i asked him to stop and his reply was, "i am giving my tenders a massage." i tried not to laugh and told him that was not something we did in public. he is doing well in school and is signed up to go next year for the same number of days. i talked to his teacher today about the transitional kindergarten and what i need to look for when it is time to register him. his teacher is great and talked to me about just making sure he could make it through the day. she used to teach in texas and said there kindergarten is only half day, and it should be here too as little ones can't go all day in school. so we will see how his four year old class goes and if he doesn't seem ready i am not going to force it. i also told his teacher that i may end up working once he does go to school and i need something that is half day, like preschool, and she said for me to substitute and see if i like it. i may look more into it and see what options i would have. i am sure there are tons of half day jobs out there if i just really start to look.
speaking of kids and the airport, i almost lost my mind when that kid threw sand on me, and it was no accident. i saw him pick up sand and throw some and it landed next to me, then he scooped up another shovel full and moved over and threw it on me. he had to chuck it to b/c it wasn't like i was sitting right next to the sandbox. he came back and apologized after his mom wore him out, but i was pretty pissed to be covered in sand from head to toe. it was all over my towel and the book i was reading, not to mention my hair. then another kid came wakling past me, not that he had to be right up on me, and kicked jamie's toy on purpose. and the mom never said a word, this kid could do no wrong. he was a terror on the playground. it made me very nervous to think that one day these will be the people leading our country. i know they were preschoolers, but i would never allow my child to throw sand on a person or deliberately kick another child's toy. it was crazy to watch the kids and even more to see the parents react. there was on girl who went up on the observation deck, which is a decent distance away from the sandbox, without her mom and her mom told her don't do it again. well don't you know that within five minutes that girl was up there again and the mom did nothing about it excpet tell her to come back. maybe i am a mean mom, but if i tell my kid not to go somewhere and they do it anyways i am going to tear their little butt up and then we will go home, regardless of what friend i am there talking with. it seems parents are so worried about their kids liking them that they are scared to discipline them, then all hell breaks loose and the parents wonder why they can't control their kids. my are no angels, they have their moments, but i think i am pretty lucky that they behave a majority of the time. i love my kids and they love me, but yes, they also have a slight amount of fear in them about what mama is going to do if they misbehave and i don't see a problem with that. it was the same way i was raised and i didn't turn out too bad, don't hold getting pregnant at 21 and the tattoos against me.
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