The Horrible NO Good Very Bad Day

Hello blog again!!!!!



It's been a while but we will catch up quickly......last week I get an email from Kyle's teacher asking us to come into a conference! I forward the email with the quote of Your son is in SOOO MUCH Trouble!!!! or something like that. (It was worse but I do not want to go to jail! haha!) I know Clark is having a BBQ at work and probably not checking his email so I call him on the cell. Check with him that yes he can stay home in the morning and go to school with me at 7:30. Nothing like learning your kid is doing awful in 2 subjects and has been lying to you!!! This is the part that bothers me the most....lying is not acceptable. If you screw up I feel you should own up to it and admit it and then move on.

This pretty much puts me in a bad mood. We are supposed to go out of town to celebrate Clark's 40th birthday and now what to do.....cancel our plans?, go without Kyle? who stays home?

We talk and it pretty much puts me behind in my work and I have plenty of time to think about it while getting my haircut and then talking to my mom and Clark. We decide that my mom will stay home and make Kyle go to school but we will continue on with our plans. It is a priviledge not a right to get to miss school and have family fun! Come home and pick up the kids. Wait about an hour and Kyle comes to me and admits he lied and is upset that Grandma has to stay home and miss out on the fun. Told him it's his fault and not much we can do about it at this point. He said he is ruining his dad's b-day celebration and I pretty much agree with him. The Little Miss knows that we are upset and that everyone is pretty much on edge so she does a pretty good whiney act!

Clark finally gets home late and goes to talk to Kyle and tells him what I told him and expresses how disappointed he is that Kyle is lying and will miss out on his b-day trip. Final straw was for me to make dinner for myself at 8:30.....going to have a little salad and pull out the grape tomatoes.....yep, they spill ALL OVER THE FLOOR!!!!! I was so mad but then laughed and went and got the camera. Yep, one pictures of spilled grape tomatoes all over my kitchen floor will remind me of the horrible, no good, very bad day that I was having and remind me that this too is a parenting challenge that we will make it thru!!!

We have the conference the next morning and learn quite a bit about the lying and the three adults who control Kyle's time have come up with a plan for him to make his goals and have his only focus being on school! We will be at Open House next week to find out if he is indeed sticking to his side of the plan.

For now just thinking of the grape tomatoes makes me laugh.....it could have been worse-they could have all broke in half and splattered!!!!