Challenging Day

Yesterday was another challenging day. I had one particular child at headstart who was testing me all morning long. My van was finally fixed but the bill was over a thousand dollars. That's the second week in a row that I've had to write a check that large. (Brit's braces last week). I had two different meetings on my schedule yesterday, one starting at 4pm and one starting at 4:30pm, so I requested that they meet at my house. I had four people waiting on my deck when I got home a little late because my meeting at work ran late. That group met in our dining room and I put Amy with Early Childhood downstairs. I'm also trying to make sure all the kids' laundry gets done and their summer clothes are sorted out because I'm going to be gone this weekend. So far, I have Anthony's, Zeke's and Riley's done and Sophia's partly done.
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Other Issues from Yesterday:

• I was tired and crabby by late afternoon. I guess four hours of sleep a night isn't cutting it.
• Riley walked to The Club when he was supposed to be riding the bus to The Club. He's so easily swayed by peer pressure that we're really careful when he is completely without adult supervision. It's such a small town that he was ratted out by quite a few people even before I picked him up that afternoon. Bummer for him!
• Taylor's been getting onto sites on the computer that she shouldn't. Now we have a password on our computer again.
• Brittney was having a teen moment. She had cheer practice at 6pm and then wanted to go to practice gymnastics downtown when she was done. I told her no because the day before she claimed she couldn't do anything because her gymnastics coach said she had some kind of muscle/tendon issues around her knee. Now Brittney was telling me that working out would help losen it up. She also didn't have the $10 for the gym fee and I knew she was really tired. So she went to cheer practice and then I picked her up and took her to Walmart with me. She pouted the whole way there and I told her I wasn't going to argue with her. As we were walking by the front doors of Walmart, we ran into some friends. The mom casually asked Brittney, "How's it going?" and Brittney burst into tears! Needless to say, I didn't spend much time at Walmart. Just got our stuff and went home. By the time we got home and I was sitting at the table trying to finish up some paperwork, Brittney was laughing and joking with me and was even able to laugh about the Walmart crying incident. I'll be glad when we get out of this moody teen phase :)

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