- Wednesday was insanely rainy and I was battling some congestion, though felt fine. It’s been kind of a weird week. The car is still not ready, I am mostly caught up on grading but still feeling frazzled, and I have that looming feeling of how busy we are about to be.
- It’s about to beer fest season, though we are tapering this year. I think Ash will go to Panacea and we are only running a club tent, but we are definitely going to Hogtown. One month later, I think we’re going to steward their beer competition. Ash did it last year but I just tagged along. We’ll both do it this year, mostly for practice.
- At the same time, I am still applying for jobs (and hopefully interviewing) and Isaac begins soccer. Which I am glad for because it gets him doing something other than school and gaming. He’s my one kid who really does interact with the family but with little time in the evenings, he’s on with his friends a lot. Training twice a week with Saturday games balances his life a bit more.
- On both my at-home-by-myself days this week, someone else has been here. Ash was recovering from illness Tuesday and my middle boy is here today, sick. I am not exactly happy about it but hey, isn’t that life?
- On that note, my daughter got trampled by a larger girl in PE yesterday and hurt her ankle. Doesn’t seem swollen, just bruised and hurt but they babied the crap out of her, put her in a dang wheelchair! Seems like overkill to me. We’ve been icing/heating it and I’ll put a bandage/wrap thingy on it for support. I told her if anyone at the school comes at her about being there today, tell them to come at me. She’s my kid and I’ll make the choices. Sorry; rant over.
- I think I’m just so tired of everyone trying to undermine me. The kids do it constantly, but that’s the folly of youth. They think they know everything already, which we all know they don’t. I have to remind myself that I too thought of myself that way in high school. Boy, I thought I had everything figured out!
- I have a lot to do today: ride 10 miles, send off a CD that sold (I found a ton of 10 cent CDs at a thrift store during COVID and put them on ebay; somehow they still keep selling!) and I was going to the dentist but they just called and said my hygienist has to be out today so they’ll reschedule. Nice; that clears me up a little. Maybe I will go get a pedi; I sure need it!
- I use a lot of semicolons, fyi. I know I do because that’s how my brain thinks of phrases/clauses but I wanted to point it out. It’s also severely underused by my students in class and I can’t figure out why. Maybe their way of learning to read ignored the magical and many uses of the semicolon!
- Wow, I got so sidetracked with everything else I forgot I was writing a post. I did my 10 mile ride on the indoor cycle, sat in the sauna for 10, then showered and got a pedi. I then mailed the cd, got sushi for me and made lunch for my sick son and took a protein drink to my husband, who is waiting to eat until after his ride later.
- Today was the first time self checkout at the grocery store failed me. I was waiting in line, first, but with some folks behind me, and this older couple came up and stood next to me then took the next open register, without even looking at everyone in line. i was a bit shocked but didn’t say anything, because I am nice. Though I did grumble to myself the entire time I was scanning!
- I know most of my readers have children so let me ask you this: do you think it’s unfair that I don’t pay my kids to mow the lawn? I look at is as “you live here” tax. They don’t do a ton of chores as it is (some laundry and bathroom cleaning, trash) but that’s just be a part of this household right?
- Sigh. He’s doubly mad because I asked him to mow my daughter’s side, since she hurt her ankle. He cannot fathom why he’d help out any more than the smidgen of work he does. I look forward to talking to him in 10 years; it’s going to be very interesting!
- We have our executive meeting for brew club tonight and I am actually a little excited for it. I need some kind of break; I’ve been working hard, running around taking care of hurt/sick people, warding off my own potential illness, and generally stressed. Gimme a beer and some socialization, please!
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We told our kids that doing some things (like making your bed, helping out when asked) were a part of being a family. Sorry about the old folks breaking in line. Maybe they were oblivious :-).
Yeah I look at those tasks as part of living here but I totally get people who pay their kids too. It’s personal choice I suppose.
We did pay our son to mow the grass. We looked at it as a small way to earn some spending money when he was a pre teen and teen. Having him earn some spending money was good for his confidence; he is/was a very hard worker- he reffed soccer and basketball before he could drive. Then when he could drive, he worked at a restaurant and one summer, he even had two jobs. I don’t regret paying him though I know many who don’t/didn’t pay their kids to mow.
OH MY about the wheelchair. WHAT ON EARTH? I sub at our sixth grade quite a bit (it’s where I worked today) and there is no way our clinic’s nurse would put a child with a hurt ankle in a wheelchair (pretty sure there is no wheelchair in the clinic. If a student had an injury that precluded walking, I’m pretty sure mom or dad would be called to pick up the child so that they could seek medical help).
I use a lot of dashes when I write casually (like on the blog). I do use semicolons occasionally, too! I hope your day is going well!
Yeah I am assuming the wheelchair thing is just for liability. Some parents might be appalled that their little baby had to be helped to limp their way to the clinic. Meanwhile, I’m bandaging her ankle and sending her back to school!