Yeah that's not how it went. Spalding? Orchestra? Walk your kid where?
I wanted to cry to have to send them somewhere all day without knowing enough about it all. Like the first day of school every year.
When I got home from dropping them off Ric had been home to change his clothes for work (because he had been to the temple before work. WHAT? yes...it's true). He decided to start the dishwasher while I was gone. Again, WHAT? yes...true. No good deed goes unpunished.
The drain was not hooked up so water had been spraying everywhere. It soaked through all of the counters, filled the drawers with water and poured down into the bottom cupboards filling all of the dishes with water. It had also flooded the kitchen floor and of course under the sink.
I had just spent the last two days measuring, cutting and sticking paper inside all of the drawers and cupboards. Then stayed up late putting all of the dishes away and unpacking all of the food, which was covering every inch of the counters. For the very next morning to have it all ruined.
The water had soaked through most of the food-garbage. All of the paper was floating-garbage. All of the dishes wet and smelly. All of my most absorbent towels soaked. Water damage? Yeah. And a kitchen that smells like that stinky moldy under the sink smell. Gross.
I called Ric who happened to be near by. He came and fixed the dishwasher, supposedly. And went back to work. I was irritated but ok until I opened the drawers and then I just wanted to sit down and cry. I called my sister instead.
What I really needed was to go to Barros for lunch with my family on a day like today. Instead I took the little girls to BK because we couldn't eat with the gross smell. Avary asked "where are we again?" Reno. Nevada. "oh, right" And Hazel says "Mom can we go back home now? Where aNell and Gwama are? I don't like Reno" Then Avary says "well...I do like our stairs, but we don't have our swimming pool we will have to swim in the lake" Hazel "swim in the lake! where's our swimming pool!" Then a group of teenage boys come in and Hazel starts laughing and pointing and says "look those boys look funny."
You get the picture of how it went. All the while they are wearing BK crowns as they eat their chicken.
We went by the store to get Hailey's looong list of school supplies. And to let the kitchen air. And to try to forget about the kitchen.
We had to go wait for the kids to get out of school 30 min. early so I could park even remotely close to the school. Seeing how they don't care about what happens to them after the bell rings to release them. It's like releasing wild unpredictable animals.
I waited forever, but I got to look at this. While I read The Great Gatsby and listened to the girls giggle and/or scream in the backseat.
Only to find out the kids walked the wrong way down the street and they were some of the last ones left.
This is what they looked like after their first day.
And this poor fella came all hunched and dragging his feet. If he had been holding a sign I would have given him my change.
After Kaden banging his head on the table during homework Ric got home and we headed for IHOP to, once again, get away from the kitchen. We all ate too much except Hazel who ate one bite of her banana eye on her silly face pancake and said "it's gross because I'm sick, I'm going to throw up" And I'm thinking PLEASE NO! I did however make a mental note of everything she ate during the day so I will be prepared. Heaven Forbid!
Avary sat quietly and ate while Hailey told us that during recess her (insert finger quote here)"classmate" told her this school has really cute boys and she should really find a boy to like. Me and Ric just stared at her I'm not sure what either one of us were thinking. "really" was all I got out. Kade kept slipping down under the table like a floppy fish as if we were trying to force feed him. He has only had toast and 7up all week. And then Ric picked up his greasy sausage with his fingers, took a bit then picked up his fork. Gag! He had grease on his hand, fingers, fork and face. GAG! He's says "what, I've been fasting all day". I handed out wipees to all of the children.
Ric went to a meeting and then you know I took care of, bath, scriptures, prayers, books, bed, repeat bed and bed again. And then the Elders Quorum shows up at my door. Ha!
I never did open the dishwasher to see if the dishes even got clean. I don't even want to know. See what happens when I'm left by myself you get to know too much about my day..
