Ivy Tied Up |

Off to a good start for the week. We had to get rid of Roscoe yesterday. My son kept being mean to him and after 2 weeks of hell for both myself and the dog I got rid of him. I couldnt continue to put that poor puppy through it anymore. Bug kept bugging him and irritating him to the point of where Roscoe would growl if he came near him. I said no more! And started searching for a home for him. It took a week to find someone who I thought could offer him a good home and provide the needed environment for him. My “conditions” were that 1. The family have no kids. and 2. He be INSIDE because thats all he knows. I was looking for someone who needed a companion. Maybe someone who was older and was alone. The lady I found was perfect. She was older. In her late 70s. Her dog had to be put to sleep just a few months earlier and hse had been searching for the perfect dog.. Roscoe was perfect. he loves women and loves to be loved on and she doesnt have any kids. I hope she really takes care of him and I think she will.. He is such a sweet pooch.. The girls are upset that I got rid of him. But I feel like I did the right thing. We still have Daisy. Bug isnt mean to her like he was to Roscoe (I dont understand that.. I really dont).

Anyhow. First day of school for the kiddos was last week. They went on Tuesday to meet their teachers and put up school supplies and all of that. Both the kids have WONDERFUL teachers. I’m told they have the BEST teacher for their grades. Which I hope is true. Diva doesnt need another bad year. last year was horrible and she hated it all due to the teacher and one lil girl who kept harassing her. I swore that if htat lil girl was in her class this year I would have her moved. Lucky that lil girl is no where near her class! WOO HOO!

Thursday was their first OFFICIAL day of school. Diva goes all day and Bug goes half a day. Well the first day was NOT FUN.. I was sick with the stomach virus from hell and had to carry the kids to school. I left at 7:30 to take Diva to school. Then because Bug needed a shot I had to drive 45 min to his doctors office get his shot he needed which took all of 5 minutes and then drive all the way back to his school. We arrived at his school at about 9:15. They actually let me walk him to his class which is odd because they have a rule that parents are not allowed past the front office. They say this is for the safety of the students. They even run background checks on the parents before we are allowed to help out at the school even if its for a classroom party. Anyhow. I walked him to his class and took him in. He kinda clung to me for a minute or two but when it was time for me to leave he said bye. And that was it. I was cool with that and left. Lil bit was okay too until I said,”Are you ready to go home?” she started freaking out! Yelling she wanted her brudder and she wanted him now. She did not want to leave him at school. This is the first time they’ve been apart. (other than his first sleep over a few weeks ago and then she freaked out too). She was not happy she screamed and cried for him the whole time we were walking to the car. I took her to my grandmothers house because we only had an hour to kill before picking her brudder back up. When it was time to go I asked if she was ready to go get him. She said YEAH! Well I had an extra few minutes and decided to stop at my friends job to say hi first. She was NOT liking that.. She started screaming,”NO NAE NAE’s (what she calls diva) school now!” and “Not nae’ nae’s school!” meaning this wasnt the school. she was ready to go pick up her brudder! When he got into the truck he was confused. On the way home he asked where Diva was. I told him she was still at school. He seemed okay with it until we turned down our road and he asked to play with girl 1 and girl 2 (neighbors). I told him they were still at school. To which he replied with ,”Then why am I here?” I couldnt help but laugh. Even now he is just now understanding that he gets out at 11 and they get out at 3:20. He doesnt understand why but he is starting to accept it. Today is the 4th day of school and already he is not wanting to go. I fought him this morning as he screamed he doesnt like school he wants to go back to bed. But he comes home in the afternoon happy. So I’m assuming he needs to go to bed earlier so he wakes up happy. We shall see. I’m working on getting them to bed earlier but its not easy. We have so much going on in the afternoons.. Diva is liking school. She says its hard. She is in the 1st grade this year. She says they have a math book and its,”HARD HARD HARD” I tried to tell her math was not hard.. Its nothing but logic and she looked at me like I was stupid. I’m sure if I was 6 years old I’d look at me like I was stupid too.. Lucky for me.. Math is something I’m very good at and its very easy for me.. Unlucky for her I’m not good at explaining things that just make sense to me. Now language arts and stuff.. yeah.. That i’m not so good at. As you can tell here i’m sure. I do not really care much about complete sentences and things. I often do my best but sometimes I just really do not care. And probably often form one very long run on sentence. I could care less about pronouns, verbs, nouns, ect. And I can’t stand it when people take their time to correct others or make fun of others for it. If we were in a business setting I could understand. And I could easily ridicule but ya know what? (yeah I said ya.. ) This isnt a business setting, this is my blog.. HA HA.. Now in my business life (yes I have one) I’m very professional and do care about those things. Any how what does this have to do with the kids first day of school..

Diva came home on the first day on cloud nine. Excited about everything except for the math book(oh yeah thats how the rampage about pronouns started). She really likes her teacher. She has one kid in her class that was in her class last year. But the rest are all new to her. I told her I wanted her to make new friends and she said,”But I already did” so I guess things are going well. No,”I HATE SCHOOL, I’M never going back” tantrums yet. She has had a few melt downs in the last two days but they had nothing ot do with school..

She already has homework. And spelling words (which I was just totally unprepared for.. she just seems too little for a spelling list..LOL). She has a spelling test and a reading test this Friday. Its my responsibility to make sure she is prepared. OF course I’m now mean because I’ve been drilling her and her friends everytime they turn around. But they’ve done well.. They easily spell the words to me.. WOO HOO GO ME! lol.. Makes me feel like i’m doing something right.. She WILL know those words on friday! If she doesnt. It wont be lack of my parenting skills.

I want to thank you all for your well wishes for this past week when we were all so sick. It was a very hard and stressful week. Everyone seems to be recovered now.. Diva said a lil girl in her class left today throwing up because she has a stomach bug.. I swear (I know.. my mom always told me not to swear but oh well) she better not get that mess again! I think 2 times is plenty. Anymore i’m going to have to take out stock in both Clorox and Lysol companies!

Hope you all are doing well! I havent had a chance to read many blogs lately.. Will be making my ro unds in the morning as I’m off to bed now..