I am not childless today. I have LB home. I told him it was school today before putting him to bed last night. He was all smiles at the time, but then once it came time for sleeping he didn't.
He didnt' shut his eyes, he didn't even pretend to be asleep. He just cried and cried.
I told him that this is the last day he's doing this. If there is nothing wrong with him I'm just going to have to send him to school. He can't keep getting away with this crap.
If it was EB or Dot would I let them stay home because they decided to stay up all night being little craps.
LB is still being a little crap. He's crying and being cranky. Hmm, wonder if he's feeling tired after being up all night?
But it could have been worse.
I creeped into the boys room this morning, I didn't turn on the light because I didn't want to wake LB up since he'd just gone to sleep a couple of hours earlier.
EB is curled up on his bunk, blanket kicked off and shirtless. I gently nudge him and tell him it's time to get up for school.
He informs me he isn't feeling good. He tells me that he threw up twice during the night. Did he? I never heard him, but then a herd of elephants rampaging through my bedroom might not wake me up either. And my son will not wake me up unless it's a dire emergency (what a weird kid).
So I told him to stay in bed, one kids staying home I guess another one isn't that big a deal.
I go downstairs with Dot and I'm getting her all set for school when EB comes down the stairs, he's dressed and ready for school.
He's decided that he's feeling good enough to go to school. Now that is a strange child. He's told he can stay home and he decides to go anyway.
I asked him if he was sure, and he nodded. I told him I proud that he's able to make that kind of decision on his own. My son may be immature in many, many ways when it comes to social interaction with girls and stuff. But when it comes to things like that he's so grown up that it scares me sometimes.
I'm really trying to be little miss organization but it's hard when my family bucks the system folks.
Last night I got everything set up for school. I told everyone at 6:30pm that they had to get everything set up for today.
The kids chose their clothes, lunches were made, baths were taken and back packs were packed. The kids had to be reminded a couple of times but on the whole they did pretty good.
And then there is the man that I'm married to.
Four times I asked him if he had his clothes for work. I told him that I'm not doing last minute laundry before bed. I informed him that I shall not be joining in any mad dash search for whatever is missing come the morning.
He actually got mad at me for telling him this, I guess it was the telling him over and over again.
But he never really listens to me, and when he grunts his "I'm fine" at me I feel like he's not really ready he's just trying to shut me up.
So he goes to bed. This morning he was pretty much all ready, except where were his car keys?
The kids had moved them, where had they gone.
I knew where they were. I saw where the kids put them. But since I told him so many times last night to get his ass ready I just watched him run around the house searching for his keys.
He searched the house for 10 minutes, looking for his keys in every place he could think of looking, all but one.
Finally I took pity on him because he was going to be late for work. I pulled the keys out from under the coffee table, the place the kids stick pretty much everything that's in their way.
Tonight when I ask Hubby if he's ready to walk out the door come morning he may think twice about calling me a nag.
heh, heh.
9:05 p.m. - January 9, 2006
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