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October 13 Just for funThought I'd add a few of these....
My so called Life...OMGosh...
I have been so tired with the drama and events of the past weeks that I've come home and just zonked. The warm weather has brought out the worst in our kids and I have had fights, and conflict managements almost every day.
The past three days have (and I'm not kidding) having been taken up with resolving a fight that happened over a girl and two boys were pressured by other friends to fight and when one went down, a bunch of other kids decided to jump in and hit and kick. This was afterschool two days ago. The initial two boys are all ok with each other now, but I had to discipline them and entire next day I was on the phone with parents and meeting with kids in my office to try and track down every last witness who saw it so I could confirm it and then discipline the boys who jumped in on the fight.
Well, I did it. I got every last one of them and they all had to meet with police and I had to call parents. They've all been suspended and they were lucky they didn't get hauled off to juvy.
But this whole thing set off a horrid chain of rumors that other fights would happen and revenge and etc. which I had to spend all today tracking down..including a kid who said jokingly to a friend that someone ought to bring a bb gun (which was never on campus) and police were again called...and while dealing with this one of the kids from the original fight said some kid had called his cell phone and left a threat. This kid he didn't know but was the boyfriend of a girl who was friends with the his girlfriend who he and the other boy had fought over...
Are you still following this????? AS THE WORLD TURNS....
So then we had to call the police again so they could come up and hear the message and now that kid who lives over 50 miles away is now in trouble for making threats.
This doesn't even cover the conversations I had yesterday with upset parents. One set of whom seemed to be more upset that their son got caught than that he jumped into a fight that wasn't his and kicked a kid when he was down. The kid he was supposedly "defending" was his nephew. (Figure that one out)...
Then this set of parents wanted to dispute the suspension code which indicated that the events caused "school disruption". So I got to explain just how disruptive all these events were. Then she told me she hoped my investigation wouldn't be biased. I said, "How do you mean biased?" She was insinuating that the race of the kid who was jumped was the reason we were suspending the others. Boy was I mad. I managed to keep my temper and told her that the investigation was about anyone and anybody who would jump in on a fight and kick a kid when they were down, no matter what color the kids were and I was going to disicpline every last kid I could catch. She shut up after that.
OOOOOH that made me soooooo mad. I went into my bosses office and wondered aloud if that lady had thought I'd just made up the names. I must have spoken with about 20 kids..."Sure I said, I just pulled the names out of my butt.. and her kid's was one of them." Then we both started laughing so hard because it had been so stressful. She couldn't believe I'd said that--but it was my way of venting.
ARrrrrrgghhhhh. I think we've finally quashed every rumor and met with the factions of both sides and everyone (even the kids) agree this all got way out of hand. We are going to be doing some kind of asssembly about rumor and gossip.
What a week. And I didn't event mention the conflict managment I had to do on Monday with the girl who was so incensed (and rightly so) that a boy had asked her if she could fake orgasms. He said a friend dared him to ask her. So he did it. We had a loooooooong conversation about this. He said he didn't know what it meant. I had to tell him that it is never very wise to use words you don't understand and briefly explained the meaning (I think he knew very well what it meant, but didn't think I would discuss it). The girl was satisfied with the issue being dealt with and it all came out that the reason this happned is that she watched the movie "When Harry met Sally" and there is a scene in it where she is in a restaurant and she "fakes an orgasm" and the girl told her friend she could do what Meg Ryan did and her friends told a boy and that boy dared the girl to do it.
OMGosh.
This is my so called life.
October 02 Already October and other deep thoughtsWell, I've been back at work almost two months now and it started to get into my routine. It seems strange that it's already October, we've had picture day, the first dance and parent conferences are coming up.
I have to say that this has been a hard week. 3 school shootings in less than a week? Yikes. I have to say that it makes it difficult at times when I think of what someone could do to any school. You can have every emergency plan in place and training, but some nut can still do something terrible.
I pray daily that the Lord will protect my family and our schools. I wish there was something I could do to make it all "unhappen" for those miserable families.
On more positive notes, I've been challenged by some things in church--mainly to reaffirm God's calling on me to live the way he wants and to be less complacent (sp?--I'll check it later).
BG is growing daily in cuteness and talkativeness. She continues to adore her shoes and her favorite game is to try all of them on--one pair at at time. She gets mad when we have to take them off for bed. In fact, one morning when I woke her up to get her ready--she sat up in the crib all groggy and sleepy and uttered, "shoooooooooe". Her first thought of the day. I had to laugh. I think I'll be in trouble when she's a teen.
We also bought plane tickets for Christmas so we can go visit hubby's family in Texas over the holiday. Anyone with tips for flying with young kids--advice appreciated.
We are looking forward to it. Hubby's sis and bro-in-law still have not seen BG nor all her boy cousins. (She is the only girl grandbaby). It ought to be pretty interesting.
We found someone to watch the cat. I must admit I was stressing about this. Our cat is a big softie and it really does affect him when we leave. Kenneling him will make his hair fall out I fear...(when he was in the shelter we rescued him from he shed so badly it was unbelievable). Anyway, a family friend will stop by to visit with him, feed him and clean his box.
Hubby and I are ok. We are trying to make time to hang out together aside from the computer games we play together as relaxation. Any one have some advice on inexpensive, fun dates?
Well, off for now.
September 22 Life Experience...So How much of life have you lived? Thought I'd post this....
The first month of school....is over.Well, tomorrow will mark the "official first month of school". It got rather crazy the past two weeks and I had lots of discipline issues. It seems that things need to get sorted out in the beginning of the school year. Thursday and Friday this week were a bit more normal paced and I felt better about things (it helps that the cold was dissipating too).
Tonight we our church community life group (CLG) met for the first time after summer hiatus. It was nice to see everybody again. There are 3 families who have been going and a new one joined us tonight. All have kids 5 or under. Our church is going through an "Experiencing God" study called the "Reality of God" (or something...we only just got the book tonight and I've missed the past two Sundays to hear more because we've all been sick)--but it looks good.
It will get me back into reading a devotional daily each evening. I was doing well for a while and then whammo, Hubby got sick and summer hit and I fell out of it again.
I really struggle with being consisitent with it. I'm not a person who likes a lot of routine (some I do, but some I don't)--and yet I am organized and am a hard worker. I just keep plugging away though.
Right now I've been having anxious thoughts about things and need to take them to God. I know it's about letting go and trusting God and I suppose it is still residual feelings from this summer but I keep thinking about what would happen if my Hubby died or my baby died and how would I cope or not fall apart. I guess I'm still processing my feelings about Hubby getting so sick so suddenly--it's the suddenness that is so anxiety provoking and brings up the feelings that "wow--we really have no control over anything"--a car could hit us and "BAM" that's the whole enchilada.
I like control. I'm not as control freaky as I used to be when I was younger, but growing up with a great deal of chaos makes me like control and hate surprises. I don't like feeling powerless and at the mercy of outside forces.
I know I'm not....and that God is there... but I still have those feelings at times and because I struggled so much with them when I was younger they can be very strong. I never got paralyzed by them and would always try to act courageously through my fear--but oh...it was awful...I don't want to go through those kinds of things again--I feel like I've had my share (even though I know it doesn't work that way)...
Living with fear is not what God wants for us, I know. But it sure is hard to let it go at times when it looms so large...
"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything through prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God and the peace of God, which passes all understanding will guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus" Phil. 4:6-8.
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