Tag: Keeper

My Day * Kids up fed dressed off…

My Day:

  • Kids up, fed, dressed, off to school.
  • Washed the car (long story)
  • On the way to meet with Stephanie​ and Extra Mom #1 …. School nurse called to inform me that Keira was urinating blood!
  • While driving ….. Called doctor – made an appointment, called school, called bus, called the other school.

(Thank God for BlueTooth and Touch to Talk)

  • Martin’s Point in Gorham – Team effort doctor’s appointment, because it takes a village!
  • While still in the parking lot messaged In Home Support about delay
  • Quick lunch break.
  • Got Gas
  • School to pick up Keira.
  • School to pick up Riley.
  • Martin’s Point in Portland – Keira has a severe case of Red Dye Number 40! A.K.A Food coloring (: Also got a Measles booster!
  • Home to meet with IHS and drop off Keira
  • Parent Teacher meeting for the Big Girl!
  • Ordered Pizza
  • Responded to 10 out of 20+ emails
  • Ate dinner
  • Now

File this under Only Riley Tonight we were…

File this under: Only Riley
Tonight we were walking out of Taekwondo and Riley tells me her foot hurts. This is Riley, if something hurts she’s laying on the ground in hysterics. So I tell her I’ll look at it when we get home.
We get into the car and she takes off her shoe and said in a carefree voice “… and now it’s bleeding.”
Me: Bleeding?
Riley: Only a little bit in one spot.
Me: Put your finger on it until it stops and I’ll look at it when we get home.
At that point I was turning into traffic and it wasn’t gushing blood. Plus THIS IS RILEY! If Riley THINKS something is going to hurt she starts in with the drama and she wasn’t even whimpering.
We got home and I look at her foot AND IT’S BLUE!
She has a huge blue bump on her foot above her toes. No tears, no drama, nothing just “my foot hurts”.
So now I have questions like – What did you do?
Keep in mind I was there the entire time! I could see her every move. There were only 2 kids in tonight’s class and most of the time there were 2 instructors. She wasn’t hit, slapped, kicked or bunched and she didn’t do any of those things to anyone else. For most of the hour she practiced her forms! FORMS! You don’t touch another person or anything else when you’re doing forms.
Her response was something about slipping around the water cooler area.
I have no idea what she did. I’ve see the water cooler it doesn’t typically attack people. And even if I hadn’t been right there every second, there were only 2 kids with 2 instructors there tonight – someone would have noticed if the water cool had suddenly jumped up and whacked her.
Not to mention I know the instructors well enough that if the water cooler suddenly started going after the students they would have mentioned it. That’s just the kind of story you have to tell people!
Tomorrow I’m going to have her reenact whatever it was that she did to get a big blue bump on her foot – I’ll keep you posted.

ME Just let me get this straight You…

ME: Just let me get this straight. You weren’t paying attention and you were fiddling with something in your desk when your teacher yelled at you – and YOU’RE Angry?
*Pause*
ME: Would you have done that in TaeKwonDo?
Riley: No, of course not. In TaeKwonDo we show respect to our masters and instructors.
ME: WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR TEACHER IS?
Riley: But I hate her!
ME: But she signs your permission slip for your next belt test.
Riley: I think …. maybe …. I need to reconsider apologizing.
*Pause*
Riley: But I hate her!
ME: I could have Mr. Littlefield explain respect to you.
Riley: Or I could just apologize. Apologizing sounds good.

Me How was school Riley Boring We’re studying…

Me: How was school?
Riley: Boring! We’re studying the human body. When do we start REAL Science?
Me: That is real science.
Riley: Well, at what stage of the 3rd grade do we get to blow stuff up?
Me: I should have never let you watch Mythbusters.
Riley: So we’re not going to learn how to handle gun powder?