So Much For Cool

Well, things started off no better around here today.  Around 2 AM I awoke to a strange, sustained honking.  I woke Peter Pan up and we tried to figure out what it was.  It was the neighbor's car horn.  It was just going and going.  We were up, Peter Pan went out on the porch.  It honked for 20 minutes straight- and not like when you hit the panic button on your key chain, it was just on!  After 20 minutes it just sort of fizzled out.  Peter Pan said that the neighbor's porch light came on, then went off and no one ever came outside.  I was awake so I decided to try and bore myself back to sleep with the TV.  "My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding" sort of put me back to sleep.  I went back upstairs and tried to get to sleep for real.

I woke up at 6:45, to realize that Belle's alarm had not gone off and she had overslept.  She needed to get up and out the door for her ACT's.  She was of course upset and there wasn't much I could do to help her out.  The biggest issue was the fact that she has lost her calculator (this will be the third $100 calculator lost by one of my children!) and we couldn't track another one down.  Moose has one, but it is still at VMI since he is taking a math course this session.  There was great drama, and I was admittedly poor in handling it. 

Belle finally got out the door, but realized that the truck needed gas so I followed her to the gas station to make sure she made it.  Keep in mind that I was in my pj's and my hair was standing on end.  In any case she finally made it off to the test. 

I then came home to find a missing envelope with test passed certificates for the skating club annual meeting.  I found them fairly quickly so that was a good thing.  I still have a ton to clean in this computer room (maybe I should be doing that instead of blogging?) but I did get a good bit sorted.  Peter Pan did the grocery store run so I just had to shower, dress and cut fruit for the meeting.   It went well and I was feeling better.  Belle called and she seemed in good spirits as well. 

Things are staying cool for the moment, but I know there will be more issues around the corner.  That is life at our house!  We should be a reality show, except it might be more depressing than funny.  I wonder what TLC would pay us to be "One Crazy Family"? 

Why This, Why Now

I am not in the mood for this at all!  Today has been a bit of a train wreck!  I got up and took Belle to the rink for morning ice and a lesson.  She did all right, she seems in a little less pain than yesterday, but still not up to her normal self.  Of course she won't tell her coach that she hurts.  I am proud of her strength, but I think coach should know when she can barely move.  When I tell it just seems like I am justifying a less than stellar performance.  Any way, she came off the ice and told me she needed cups for a party at school.  I just couldn't do Wal-Mart today so we paid the extra at Wawa.  Then I shared some info I had recently heard with her.  It sent her into a terrible state.  The actual information is unimportant, but she reacted extremely badly!  We had 5 minutes till I dropped her at school and she was a mess. 

"It's not fair!"  she lamented. 

"I agree, it isn't fair, but there isn't much we can do about it!"  I countered.  Too late, though, the damage was done.  I hate seeing my kids sad!  Fair or not fair, right or wrong I am furious that she has been dealt another blow!  In any case she got herself out of the car and off to school.

I decided to go home and get breakfast.  I had a bowl of cereal and watched some morning TV.  I have no idea what I watched because as soon as I finished the cereal I drifted off to sleep, waking when the bowl and spoon almost fell out of my hands.  I decided to go upstairs and take a quick nap.  Another big mistake.  All that did for me was make me groggy and cranky. 

Work was okay, but the classroom moving is stressful.  I had my students help out today- I gave them all one little box to carry down the hall (I mean little, they were rubbermaid shoe boxes).  In one trip I had a box of kangaroo counters, a box of foam shapes, and a whole pile of cut tissue paper hit the floor.  What a mess and so much for having them help with the move.  Now I am sort of stalled because the class I am moving into is a Kindergarten room and they have a huge "graduation" coming up on Monday.  The teacher, understandibly, doesn't want a mess of moving stuff.  I decided to try and do some cool stuff with my class, but mostly I ended up running from group to group and redirecting.  So much for cool stuff.

I got home and decided to chill with some TV, and just about the time I drifted back to nap land we got a HUGE thunderstorm.  Lightning may or may not have hit something in our neighborhood.  In came Belle, she pretended to want to talk, but she was worried about the storm (I sort of was too, it was huge!)  So no pre-dinner nap for me. 

Moose is home and has decided that he is on a low fat diet.  This doesn't really mean he eats less, just more expensive stuff now.  Meat was okay, broccoli was fine, no french fries please- too much saturated fat.  I wouldn't mind so much if he didn't eat so much.  Meat is expensive!  Of course this is a good thing in the long run so we will support it! 

So, now it is 8:30, Belle has gone to the movies with friends,  Peter Pan is trying to explain the finer points of hockey to Moose while they watch the Stanley Cup (see this is why hockey is better than soccer... ) and I think I am going to bed.  Tomorrow is a busy day, Belle has her ACT's and I have a Tidewater board meeting and annual meeting (which Belle says she won't attend due to the stress of taking ACT's!)  I am down to 5 work days till summer vacation so in reality, all is good!!!!  Still, today was just a little too much for me!  Can't things just be cool for 5 days?!