Schools closed

I got a message last night that the older kids school would be closed today and tomorrow (Wednesday) for sure and maybe longer. They were closed Monday for the holiday but now the staff and a bunch of the students are sick so they are closing for the next two days as well. I had already planed to take three of the kids back to the doctor today because they aren’t better. I was going to take them yesterday but they couldn’t get them in so I got them to put them in for after school today. Then they didn’t go today.

We went and she said that the oldest has bronchitis, the next one down has croup and youngest has strep. We were just there a week or so ago and she said they were fine expect number 3 who had an ear infection. He is fine now he wasn’t seen but now the other three are sick still and not getting better. Number two is worse I think than when he went before. I still don’t know what I have because they have not changed my doctor yet so I can only go to the ER until I can get them to fix it. I don’t feel like sitting in the er again after being there the other week. I have medication they gave me then that I didn’t end up needing, I am going to take them and hope it helps get rid of whatever this is.

My friends boyfriend got out of the hospital today and she went home, she is going to come back in the morning and watch the kids so I can go to school. I got something quick for dinner tonight since none of us feel good sill. It was cooking and Little Bitty ask to take a shower so they set the water for her. Well she didn’t tell anyone it started stopping up again. She decides she is done and wants out and calls for us to get her. As I walk around the bed and into the bathroom there is all this water. I look and the shower is over flowing. It ran under boxes of pictures and paperwork I had there and under the bed. We had to get tows and clean it all up and then even mop over it and over it to get it all up. Then we had to go dump everything out of the boxes onto my bed so that it didn’t get wet because they were soaked. I am now sleeping on the couch because I am so tired and feel like crap, I don’t feel like cleaning my bed off and finding a place for all this mess that needs to be put a way now.

Now I am sitting here on the couch writing and watching the escape channel. I want to go to sleep but at the same time want to get some other things done first. I just feel like I can’t lay down and go to sleep yet.

I wanted to get stuff done this week but now with the kids out of school I can’t. I am going to try and get them to help me go through this house tomorrow and get a ton of stuff cleaned up and cleaned out again. It seems like such a mess since we have been sick and doing just what we have had to.

Thursday Update

It has been so busy around here the last week or so I have hardly been able to catch my breath and take a break. My house is already starting to fall back into looking like a disaster area after a hurricane hit. It is starting to bother me. This is not new just earlier than normal. Most times the week of Christmas until about New Year’s nothing get done and the house is a mess because of all the running kids being home, trying to Christmas shop in between everything else and all that I must do.

But with the kids being in school and two different school’s things seem extra crazy. I think a big part of it is not having money and having to spread everything out for the things at school. Most times I would just make one shopping trip get everything they all need and then just have it here and get it together as we go and need it over the last two weeks of school. But with not having money to even buy things we need for the house and then trying to buy stuff for school on top of it has been stressful. I have to see what is coming up at school buy for it with no money then take what is left of the nonexistent money and try to buy what we need for the house and gas.

The little kids needed gifts to trade, pajamas for the Christmas parade, one needed an outfit for the Wednesday night church service and they wanted money for the Santa Shop at school. I didn’t know about the Christmas pajamas until the day of the parade and could not find the right color clothes for the cow for the Wednesday night church service. I ended up sending him in black instead of brown or white because I could find brown shirts and white shirts but not white or brown pants. I told him to wear his black pants from his pajamas he just got and got him a black shirt he can wear for his uniform at school later. There are black cows so it worked. I told them I could give them money for the Christmas shop or I could take them shopping at the other store to get stuff and they opted to go shopping with me to get stuff. Thank God because then I could wait until this week to put money out for that. I was just going to give them a dollar each person to get something but that is still $5 each kid. They like to buy for each other and they want to get Father of the Year something and me. I will take them to the dollar tree and let them get something. I have to take my Big Boy as well so he can get everyone something. My Big Girl bought the other three a book from the book sale at school with her money. She spent a dollar or each of them. I want to make sure they get her something since she went on her own and used her money to get them something. I am not worried about me or Father of the Year. I just want make sure they get to get each other something and get my Big Girl something.

I have always taken them and let them pick something out for each other since they were little and something for toys for tots. Lot of times I take them to the drug store and let them get toys there they can get three for $13 and they are nice decent things that they like each kid gets the 3 gifts they need for less than $15. But I don’t have the money to do that this year. We have done dollar store gifts in the past as well because they would find a few different things there for each one instead of one thing. They just like doing it and don’t care how much is spent.

Thanking about the gift swap between them I am thinking maybe they should start doing an ornament swap between them. That would give them not only the ones I buy each for them for their tree but also the ones that they get from each other. That would be for them to look back on over the years when they get their own homes and tree. Be something nice they could do when they got older as well. I was very disappointed this year when we went to the drug store for Christmas stuff they normally have a lot of stuff and at super deals. This year they had one row of stuff and it wasn’t even stuff that most people are going to want to buy. The lady heard me talking to the kids and said they cut out 90% of their Christmas stock this year. I always bought a lot of stuff there for Christmas.

The big kids needed money for lunch for the Christmas party, each a gift to trade stuff for the show and to go caroling this Friday. He just acts as if it was no big deal. I talked to the teacher and principle at the big kids school about other stuff and it came up they said they were going to pick up a couple extra gifts and the kids lunch for the party. That helped a lot because that was $30 right there. I told them I would pay it back when I got things caught up.

I have worked it out and got everyone what they needed besides the school for the big kids picking up their lunch and gift.

I spent Wednesday night after the play making big Ginger Bread ornaments for most of the little kids school. I was just making them for their two teachers and their two after school teachers, then my Little Guy started about the ladies in the office and the lunch lady and couch and the music teacher because they need stuff too and no one will probably get for them. I made a batch of dough and told him how ever many we could make out of it and that was all we were making. He got lucky and we could cut enough dough out to make everyone he wanted one. Unlucky me but he was happy. I decided to do a few things different than we had in the past. I mixed food coloring to make the dough brow so we wouldn’t have to paint them brown. Or we must paint them brown, wait for he brow pain to dry and then paint the rest of it. I also had them paint it before I baked it. I didn’t know how that was going to come out but needed to get them done as fast as we could. It was already after 10 pm. We took a brush and painted them with peppermint or vanilla extract to make them smell good. I wasn’t sure if the paint was going to turn out very good or not since we didn’t bake them first but I didn’t have time to bake them wait for them to cool then paint them. Over all I liked the way they turned out the paint was fine. The only thing was the brown in the dough wasn’t very dark. I wish it had been a little bit darker. But overall they came out cute. The kids painted them their selves. My Big Boy painted the black “secret agent” and the silver astronaut. The rest the little ones picked who it was for a painted it how they wanted it to be.

 

Dear Teacher, What I Want You To Know

 

I just seen this come up on my news feed and decided to watch it. Listening to it I just sat here and cried, it sounds so much like my big boy. The let me move, let me rock, let me look where I need or want because I can still listen. He never sits still from the time he wakes up until he goes to sleep at night. He is always rocking or moving in some way or another. One of the first things that I noticed about him when he was little that wasn’t like other kids. He really isn’t trying to distract anyone or be disrespectful or not listen. 99% of the time if he can get up and move around or fitget in his chair he can tell you more of what was said or going on than someone sitting doing nothing but listening and watching what is going on. He catches things you would think for sure he wouldn’t or couldn’t have. I have to remind myself all the time when we are doing school that he is listening and doing what he is supposed to do he just needs to move or look around. It does get on my last nerve sometimes. But it isn’t his problem it is mine and I try not to say anything to him.

It’s hare because others just don’t understand and that I let him get away with things or don’t make him listen. They think he is being rude or not behaving and that he is old enough or more than old enough to understand and just stop. He looks a lot older than he his because of his size. They think he should be strong and lift this or that or not get upset about things that kids his age get upset about because they don’t stop to see how old he really is. Sometimes he may get upset about something that most kids his age wouldn’t but that is because of how he is. He isn’t like all the other kids. They don’t see it or understand. I just wish more people were a wear of things like this or more understanding. His dad says I always take up for him but I really don’t I take up for him when he needs taken up for. When adults aren’t being adults and treating him like he should be treated or others try to run him over, pick on him or make fun of him. He just don’t like it because a lot of the times I have to step in when because he isn’t treating him right. He swears he is but he can’t stand there and yell at him belittle him or call him names. Different or not that is one of my biggest pet peeves is people calling others names it don’t matter who it is, who they are talking to or why.