Filed under: family
For years, Doodles has been going to the ortodontist every 6 months. It’s been going on so long that the idea of her actually having work done had faded. I wasn’t prepared for the news yesterday that it was time for braces. It shouldn’t have surprised me since earlier this week she lost her very last baby tooth – a bittersweet moment. So, in December, she is going to get impressions, xrays, and pictures done and she’ll probably get the braces after Christmas. The ortho said she will probably need them for about 2 years. Her first question was, ” Will it hurt?”. I think it helps that most of her friends already have braces. I’m just not looking forward that $5k price tag. I know it’s worth it though.
Filed under: family
Doodles has decided that she doesn’t want to be The Boy’s girlfriend anymore. She has tired of texting him, talking to him on the phone, and hanging out with him at tkd. She just doesn’t like him anymore. I knew it would happen eventually and I guess I should be glad that it’s not him wanting to break up with her. But, I feel so awful for him. He really is a nice boy and he liked her for 2 years before even asking her out. I know he will be heartbroken. I already spoke to his mom about this as she asked me to give her a heads up should Doodles want to break up with him. She suggested that Doodles tell him that I’m making her break up with him, which is fine with me because she really doesn’t have time for a boyfriend. Doodles keeps feeling compelled to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I’m a very truthful type of person myself, so I understand where she’s coming from. I’m trying to use this opportunity to teach her about wording things to cause the least amount of pain possible and that sometimes it’s best to not be too blunt. His mom has been trying to prepare him for it and he actually went all weekend without texting or calling. But I still feel so bad for him. Doodles has wanted to tell him for a few weeks now, but hasn’t had the opportunity as she wants to do it in person, not over the phone and certainly not by texting. It’s tough when they only see each other for an hour twice a week and that time is spent in tkd class. I think if she doesn’t find the chance to do it tomorrow, I might just tell her to call him – they won’t see each other at all next week so it would be a good time to do it.
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Boxman’s old boss called yesterday. I’m still trying to figure out how he had my cell phone number. We became good friends with him and his family when they lived here – going out on their boat with them a lot, getting together some weekends and even holidays. He was responsible for a nice promotion that Boxman got several years ago. We even left our kids with them one weekend while we drove to New Orleans to meet some old friends. We were pretty close to them. And then he got fired and eventually moved back to Chicago. Boxman has spoken with him occassionally since then, but not regularly. And then he calls out of the blue yesterday. I didn’t think much of it to start with until I overheard part of the conversation. After he got off of the phone, Boxman told me why he had called. His youngest son is in jail here in Louisiana. For the third time. His girlfriend has accused him of abuse, again. They insist that she’s a little wacky, but I really don’t know for sure if he is guilty or innocent. Regardless, the bail is $2500 and they don’t have the money to get him out. If someone who lives here will go to a bail bondsman, they can get him out for $375. So, since we live here, he actually asked us to go bail his son out of jail and they will send the $375. Boxman asked where he would stay and what he would do then and he actually admitted that he was going to go to Chicago until his court date in December. What?!? You ask us to bail out your son and then admit that he is going to leave the state? As I understand it, they could come after us for the entire $2500 and I’m not sure what they would do after that – this is Louisiana afterall. I can’t imagine asking someone to do this for you. I’m thinking keeping his butt in jail might be the best thing for him. Risking our finances to help him out of jail does not seem like a good idea.
Filed under: tae kwon do
This past weekend was our state tournament. I decided ahead of time not to compete in this one as there aren’t many older black belts that compete which leaves me competing against 20-somethings. I don’t think a body my old is capable of keeping up with those young whipper snappers. I participated as a much needed judge instead. Buster and Doodles did choose to compete. They both signed up for open hand forms and musical forms, but Buster didn’t feel like doing the musical by the time they called for them so he only did the open hand. They both did well, placing 2nd in each event. I think this is the first time they didn’t get first in something since the first tournament we did, but it’s also the fewest events they have done since then. Doodles almost opted out of the musical forms too, but was quite happy that she chose to compete in it. Despite competing against 15-17 year old boys and girls when she is not quite 13, she placed 2nd in it. She also beat the girl who beat her at the last tournament which made it a little sweeter. Sometimes it’s not about what place you get, but who you beat. One of her other most meaningful trophies was a 2nd place that she got over another girl from our school who was very good. She came home very happy with that trophy.
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In more ways than one… I received an e-mail on Friday notifying me that an envelope had been sent to me 2 day FedEx. I checked the tracking on it over the weekend and saw that it had already arrived at our local FedEx on Saturday. For some reason, I thought they would deliver it on Monday since it had already arrived. I checked the tracking again yesterday and instead of it saying “On FedEx vehicle for delivery,” it had posted “Package not due for delivery.” What? Because it was sent 2 day, they would not deliver it before the 2nd day even though it was in their facility in my town. Does that make sense to anyone? What kind of customer service is that? We have a neighbor who is management at FedEx and I’m going to be getting on him about that stupidity. It certainly doesn’t make me want to choose FedEx over UPS or USPS the next time I need to send something.
Filed under: homeschool
My children informed me today that I make school really boring. It’s okay, I already knew I was no fun. I never have been. It did remind me though that I do need to try to make school a little more interesting at times, if not exactly fun. But then I pointed out to the kids that we might have more time to do fun things if they wouldn’t goof off so much when I was trying to get them to focus on their work. I did try a bit harder today though – when doing Latin with Buster, I made him act out the meaning to the Latin words instead of just telling them to me. It was a simple thing, but he actually had fun doing it. Personally, I would have rather just said the word instead, but then again I’m just a no fun kind of person. I am going to try to find some projects, play games like Equate, and try to just find more play time. In return, they need to focus on their work when I ask them to. So, who has some good ideas on how to make school a little less boring for a no fun mom?
