Hi Rich,
You would not like how the house looks now. You wouldn?t have liked all the crazy stuff that went on today. I wasn?t too much crazy about it but you know what? It makes me laugh and well, this just seems to be the way things are for us. This is what I wrote back to Nancy K:
Tonight was an adventure. Billy was supposed to go to a holiday party at TGIFridays at 5:30, Heidi had a Girl Scout party to go to and Kristin was in the winter concert. So no big deal, I go to drop him off and he'd said it was at the mall ... but no TGIFriday's. He said, "Oh, I guess it's AROUND the mall."
Me (trying to be calm): Around the mall? You mean like behind it? East of it? West of it?
Billy: I don't know. Can't we look?
grrrrrr....so l went west on Sunrise, remembering maybe a TGIFriday's about a 1/2 mile away and it's there. Whew. So then we stop at home for a quick bite. I was going to drop Heidi off at 6:15 and then get Kristin to the school by 6:30 ... and at about five after six, Billy calls to tell me that his party "forgot" to show up and he has no money. It figures.
So we get to TGIFriday's only to learn the boy has become bored and wandered off into Borders bookstore. I am ready to kill him. It's now 6:20 and no way is either girl going to be on time. Heidi is yelling at him for being so "stupid" and he's insisting that he got the information right, it's just that NO ONE showed up, they must have gotten sick or forgot. This is the SGA...and not even the teachers are there? I don't think so...I think he heard "mall" and assumed Sunrise Mall. There's a mall on 110 too...and that's IN Farmingdale. Billy insists no, everyone must have just forgotten.
So I drop Heidi off at the library for her party (only because it's before the place Kristin needs to go to) and we get to the school at 10 minutes before 7 and there are NO parking places, it's pouring, and Kristin's crying her eyes out. But we went running into the building looking like three fat members of The Breakfast Club skidding in the hallways and Kristin gets there just in time to join her line going in.
And there is no place to sit. Luckily Kristin's part is done within a half hour, we go back to the library, and now it's really pouring, collect Heidi (who has had the best time of the evening but the first thing she says is I don't WANNA go to school tomorrow).
I had a job interview on friday at a Montessori school. They liked me a lot and said they have to go through this red tape stuff with the Board. I liked them BUT it's another M-F gig 8-3:30 and while that is great for the money, what the hell am I supposed to do if Kristin gets sick again and can't go to school? So luckily I think nothing will happen on that until after the new year. After I send the kids to school tomorrow I'm either going to go back to sleep (if it's raining) or I'm going to go bopping around town.