*i will not be winning any mother of the year awards any time soon i am sorry to say...We got an invitation to attend an awards ceremony for awesome kiddos (Jake of course was one of them) and i...forgot. Totally and completely forgot...i was in school on Tuesday morning and the saw the principal and she said "I gave Jake his medal and award. Sorry you weren't able to come on Friday night."...To this my reply was come to what? i didn't even remember it then!!! My child could have walked across a stage and gotten his medal and award for being a smarty pants (at the local High School, because it was that big of a deal and i could have
Here is Jake with his medal and certificate. Sadie had couldn't resist being in the picture.
*Jake's way of trying to make me not feel so bad (he forgot too, but he is 9 after all and i am the mom) is to remind me that he feels bad about getting into our mini pool and playing in it with Sadie...with my cell phone in his pocket. We are talking submerged fully for enough time that they couldn't even retrieve my phone numbers or photos from it when i went to Verizon...i really can't be mad at him and i'm not. He was carrying my keys and phone in his pocket when we went on a walk with Sadie, because I had on yoga pants that didn't have pockets. So, if you are a close friend or family member that didn't receive and email from me here is what it said: "Please send me a text (or email) and tell me who you are if you would ever like me to call you again." There are some people i expected to hear from but haven't...i wonder if they didn't get it, or if they are not responding deliberately...This mishap made me realize: i don't even know my mom and dad's cell phone or my in-law's...And I thought I knew Aaron's (my husband, for those of you who may have stumbled upon my random blog), but I was off by one number. This is my wake up call to get organized. It would be pretty bad to not be able to call...well anyone, if there was an emergency.
*i went to Jake's school today to help with a field day of sorts. The 4th grade was playing "A Minute To Win It" and it was a lot of fun. It was 9,000 degrees out so i was lucky that i got to be in the hall way. You see i had "defying gravity" that required balloons which popped as soon as they hit the 9,000 degree ground. They were supposed to keep 3 balloons up in the air for 1 minute...We ended up modifying it all the way done to 1 because the longest anyone could go with 3 balloons was not quite 4 seconds, and with 2 they made it to almost 30 seconds...Try it-it is harder than it sounds. We are talking 1 person trying to keep 3 in the air with out holding them. It was fun but again no mother of the year award because i forgot my camera!!! But i did remember it on Tuesday when the 4th graders did the NC Living History Museum. They all had to pick a person linked to NC in some way and dress up like them and give a speech. It was so neat, but for whatever reason it was 7,000 degrees in the hallway Jake's class was standing in (the rest of the 4th grade was in the nicely air conditioned gym...) and by the end of the hour, costumes were being peeled off and parents had abandoned their children and were standing in the gym chatting... Not all parents.
*i (back to lower case because this is not nice...) am thrilled that i am done being a room mom!!!! i will just say what is on my mind right now (don't judge me people): it is really hard to be the room mom for a teacher you are not a fan of. i had to go and buy her an end of the year gift with the $165 people sent in (how much do people send in for awesome teachers???). i have to admit a tiny part of me wanted to put the money in Jake's savings account to compensate him for his pain and suffering of being in her class all year...(i told you not to judge me...). i didn't of course. YIPPPEE that my duties as room mom are over!!!
*i have to go and check on a baby bird Sadie almost stepped on this morning when we were on our walk. I called the vet and they said don't pick it up because this time of year baby birds are learning to fly and the chances are good that the parents were nearby waiting for me to leave so they could go on teaching their baby. Part of my hopes it isn't there because i don't want a pet bird...but I can't leave it there to die...
*Sadie threw up in the car 2 times yesterday as we drover around trying to find the park we went to a couple of months ago to play in the pond...Awesome. The great thing is I have this car cleaner that works amazing and the car doesn't even smell like puke-not even in 10,000 degree weather.
*Don't let the fun activities fool you. Jake's school has done more this week than they have done the whole year.
*While waiting in the car rider line today, a mom carrying a toddler, wearing a huge t-shirt with words on it walked by. i got as far as: As* (rhymes with bass...) and Bit#@ (a term when used correctly means "female dog") and stopped reading. i watched her (judging her very harshly, i must admit) as her daughter (i am guessing a kindergartner) ran up to her wearing a pretty pink princess dress...Oh the irony. This after talking to one of Jake's classmates moms, who kept dropping the F bomb. Lovely. It did make me feel better that she dropped the F bomb while sober, because Jake went to a pool party at her house (i thought is was safe to leave him under her care because i have known her since 3rd grade...) and when I came back from going to the grocery store to pick him up, i found all the adults drinking on the porch while the children were in the pool...She was dropping the F bomb while i was talking to her at the pool party so i assumed she had to be drunk. Apparently she wasn't, she just talks like that all the time children aren't close by. So, as far as the pool party goes if she wasn't drunk, she could have jumped in the pool and rescued a drowning child. I am trying to look at the bright side of our decaying society....
*Random picture of Jake in one of the trees in the front yard.
