Brandon and I dropped Peyton off first today. I missed our Mommy and me time in the car, when we count school buses and chat about what she sees outside. Brandon dominates the conversations normally. We made it back to Brandon’s school for flag salute, but he was being a bit unruly and ignoring my requests to line up properly, so I left early for my class. Today was our last class, but I hope to continue to use what I’ve learned to make a difference in kids’ (not just my own) lives, as ultimately, it’s for all of our kids’ futures and in their best interest. As I was walking back to my car, Brandon saw me and shouted, “Bye Mommy!” I ignored him. He tried again, but I stared at him, then walked away. He shrugged a bit, but kept playing. It was hard to do, but I felt I had to be strong to teach him the lesson that he can’t get away with being rude to me just because he was around his friends and at school.
I went back home, cleaned up a bit, then headed back for lunch duty. There were the same two paid duties and then the other volunteer from last week, Theresa, another mom from one of Brandon’s classmates. We had about 60 kids to supervise. This week, though, the yard duty turned the responsibility of our class over to me. She asked me to line them up and walked them across the playground after lunch was over. It surprised me a bit, since I hadn’t been asked to do that last week. It went well; I chose the kid who was eating the quietest and nicest to be my line helper. Brandon did as he was told, after I briefed him as to why I behaved the way I did (which was how he treated me at flag salute). He didn’t appreciate it, and I told him neither did I. I was planning on playing with Brandon, but overheard these two girls arguing. One girl wanted to play with another, but she was being mean to her. So, I asked the group if they wanted to play Simon Says. So I engaged all of them in a few rounds of that, before they started getting bossy again and demanding to be Simon next. They started arguing who was next. I said, “I’m SUPER Simon, and I determine who is Simon next.” After about 5-7 minutes of this, I thanked them for letting me play with them, and told them they had to take turns after I left. It was just in time, as Brandon and the boys looked like they were playing a little rough. They had some balls and were fighting over them. So I asked them if I could have the ball and play a game. I remember when I was little we used to play 3 flies up. So I threw the ball up into the air and asked the boys to try to catch it and bring it back to me. It was a big rubber ball, so they had a fighting chance to catch it on the fly, or while bouncing. It still did get a little rough, so I couldn’t go too far. They did take turns throwing the ball into the air, and we were given a two minute warning to start cleaning up. All the kids cleaned up, and we lined up straight and quiet to show Ms Song what a well-behaved class she had. The kids got pretty into it.
I told Brandon since he’d had a good lunch listening to me, I’d walk home with him. As we were cleaning up, a kid hit his mouth with a ball he had dribbled. I let his teacher know, as he was asking for ice, and Ms Song asked me to take him to the office. So I didn’t end up leaving school until about 1215pm, when I had to get back by 1245pm after dropping my car off. I quickly went home, and made a PB&J, then headed back on foot. I had my course set, and was going to map my run, but I turned down the wrong street (too busy stuffing my face, trying not to get jelly on my shoes!). I then only had 15 minutes remaining. I debated whether I should just go back to the house to get the car, or run fast. I chose the latter, as it was more honorable, since I told Brandon we’d get our walking stamp. It was 1230 pm at this time. I was running faster than I normally do at the gym, and was pretty sweaty by the time I got to school. So I ended up running a little over 1.5 miles (since I’d had the detour down the wrong street) in about 13 minutes (I had 2 minutes to spare). Ms Song was already letting people go when I got there. We quickly walked to the office, got our stamp, and then headed home. While we were walking home, right down our street, we saw a kid outside his house. He called over to us across the street and said, “Hey, I know you from CC (school).” I asked him what grade he was in, and then his dad showed up from in the car out front of the house. We crossed the street to meet them. Before having the drug you also need to carry davidfraymusic.com cheap viagra from uk out a physical examination in order to fully understand the problem. 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I told him not to come out until after 3pm (it was 150pm). I fell asleep, then woke up after 30 minutes, and went to check on him. He was buried under blankets, and I almost didn’t see him, but I did hear deep breathing and knew he was asleep. Knowing this, I went back to sleep, still kinda drowsy. The next thing I knew, he came out and tapped me on the shoulder and asked me if it was after 3pm. I looked at my watch, and it was 345pm! Wow, he’d slept almost 2 hours. So we went to get Peyton and see Ms Tarez. She sleeps until 3pm, so there’s no sense in going earlier. When we go around 4pm, they are just having snack, so I think Brandon likes this. He politely asked Ms Joanne for some fishies, and thanked her as well. We stopped at the store to get some stickers for Halloween for Peyton’s school, then headed home. Dave pulled up right after we did. We quickly bathed the kids so they’d be ready for bed after we got home from dinner. We headed out. We had our kids at the end of the table, then the Kao’s, Theresa, Chang’s and 1/2 of the Brown’s were all at the table. Peyton was working on a 60 piece puzzle that we got at the dollar store, and Brandon was super hungry as he ate everything I gave him, asking for more. He liked the frutti di mare noodles, even eating an octopus and asking for more. He also had two mussels, a calamari, and a shrimp, even though he was worried about being allergic to it. He said he was all done (after two plates), and said he wanted to wait for dessert. During dinner, we were greeted by Miss Kristina and Ryan! Peyton played coy, and didn’t look at her, despite her giving her a hug. Logan recognized her, too. After she left, we were joking around why she didn’t say hi, and then she turned around in her high chair. Dave was helping her eat, and I asked him if she was crying. Dave nodded. Poor baby…she is so sensitive. We ended up with the birthday desserts – all 4 of them! You can never have too many desserts 🙂 Peyton wasn’t allowed to have dessert until she properly asked for it. She had finished her puzzle, with a little help, and just grunted for the cake. After 20 minutes, as we were wrapping up, she finally asked me for the cake. It was more of a whisper. As I handed her the spoon, I wanted to hear a “Thank you”, but she refused. So I didn’t let her have it. After another 5 minutes, she finally eeked out a thank you. She did enjoy the spoonful. We headed out, and when I got home, I asked her, “Why didn’t you say, ‘Thank you’?” She said, “Cuz I cranky.” Then I asked her, “Why didn’t you say “Hi” to Miss Kristina?” She said, “Cuz I sad.” So we made this video and will send it to her. Both kids are in bed, without so much as a complaint. I hope they stay there, since this whole week, we’ve had either one or the other wake up and wake us up in the process. At least I had my nap.
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