Busy Day!!

Today is James’ 10th birthday.  *sigh* Nothing makes a mom feel older then having her oldest child hit the double digits.  I did tell him that I will not be turning 30 on Monday therefore he has to stay 9.  He didn’t like that.

Ethan has been having a hard time at school and we finally got some of the story from him last night after getting bits and pieces from Shawn.  I told E that I’d call his teacher today but before I had a chance to she was calling me.  See, Ethan is being bullied at school.  This has made him an emotional wreck.  So I spoke with his teacher about it and she thanked me and promised to speak with the teachers of the student(s) involved.  Crisis solved….right?  WRONG!  I got a phone call (that I missed) from the school nurse just after lunch time.  The message she left said that E had gotten hurt on the playground and was ok, but that she wanted to speak with me.  So I returned her call, only to find that she wasn’t there.  The secretary transferred me to E’s teacher though.  Apparently while on the playground, some of the kids were out of the teachers sight (down a hill or something?) and E got kicked in what he calls his “wrongspot”.  The solution?  E was told to stay by the teacher at recess and not to go play out of the teachers sight.  Excuse me?  What is wrong with this picture?  HE gets kicked and harassed and HE is the one who has to stay by the teacher???  Grammy got more of the story out of him tonight and tomorrow Grammy and Daddy are going to talk to the Principal.  *sigh* it’s never ending.

NOW!  Trailer progress.  I got the rest of the sanding pads that I needed this morning and got the entire inside of the trailer sanded.  I started in on the primer only to discover that one can didn’t go NEARLY as far as I thought it would.  Back to the hardware store I went to get FOUR more cans – I think in total I ended up using only 3 total so I have some extra BUT it’ll go to good use on the outside.  I ended up with plenty of it on my face, in my ears……I’ve got a lot of it up my nose.  *sigh*  I was asked more than once if I’d been tanning lately!! 

 

Dad is going to do the white tomorrow when he gets home from work.  I’m getting super excited!!

We had a small birthday dinner for James at mom and dads.  Vince and I bought him his first gun as his gift from us and figured that letting him have it tonight was best as opposed to Saturday with about 20 kids running around!!!  We had a good evening and I got some cute pictures which I’ll try to post tomorrow.  I dug the old homemade stilts out of the barn and practically broke my ankle trying to use them.  Dan (with his still screwed up ankle) got on the stupid things and although he did a couple of Goofy’s moves, he did a great job walking on them.  Then of course, competitive nature won out and he and dad bet $3 on who could go the farthest.  Dad won so Dan decided it was double or nothing LOL  Dan STILL lost.  Anyway, like I said, I do have some pictures and will try to post them tomorrow – tonight I’m exhausted and ready to just fall dead asleep.