Teenager Janie

Your life has changed me. The day you were born was like a new beginning for me too; a change that will forever lay soft upon my heart. Everything in my life is sweeter because of you. The days and fleeting moments with you are only a breath in time. They linger briefly and fly away on the wings of tomorrow. Thank you for making my life so much more than I ever imagined it could be. You are precious in every way; the sunshine in my day, the joy in my soul, and the love of my life.

Short weeks

Some observations from this week…

Short school weeks (Monday was a holiday – MLK Jr. Day) seem to make for very long weeks….

 I am addicted to Netflix. Binge-watching the entire LOST series has left me kinda sad that there are no more episodes. Hugo is my fav :)

 

The Walking Dead is a better show than I ever thought it could be (here again is an attribution to my Netflix addiction). Thankfully it isn’t over and it will start again on Valentine’s Day. 

The new series Colony on USA overwhelmingly reminds me of Hitler’s Holocaust and the images I have seen of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The proxies remind me of the Third Reich. Even the flags that they have hanging in the government buildings are reminiscent of the Swastika flags of the Nazis…

 

Janie’s friend Jorja is spending the night with her tonight and we are taking them to Mobile tomorrow to watch the movie The 5^th Wave. I just watched the trailer for the movie and it looks like it is going to be pretty good.

 

Si has been thoroughly acting like a two year old lately (which makes perfect sense because he is two years old…). It is just about to push me over the edge. It is hard to tell the difference in his my-stomach-hurts-so-I-am-going-to-scream scream and his I-am-not-getting-my-way-so-I-am-going-to-scream scream… I am getting a bit better. He is also hopefully starting to learn that as soon as I figure out he is absolutely fine and he isn’t hurting or hungry there is hell to pay…

:)

If your mother asks you a question it's better to tell her the truth because chances are she's asking because she already knows the answer... ;-) @janie2022

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Censored

I finally got my daughter's report card from last year (I wasn't worried about it because now that parents can log in to the home portal and view grades, I had kept up with her scores) and included with the report card was a ██████████████████████████████████.

Now, last year was the first year I had not checked up on her teachers to make sure that the standards were being taught. I had never had an issue with any of the teachers in the past, and I started a new program at my job (going from curriculum to another) and in hindsight, I was a slacker. I put my job priorities over those of being a good helicopter mom... *snicker*


Her grades on her report card ███████████████████████. Now, I had issues with ███████████████████████ and even got ███████████████████████ over my ███████████████████████. I ███████████████████████, even if only ███████████████████████because at the time it didn't matter much anyway. What was done, was done.

But ███████████████████████. I cannot go back and undo what I did, or even redo it. It wouldn't make much sense now anyway. All I can do is put my faith in the teachers she has now. And I do have faith in them. Every one of them is good at what they do and she is a bright child.

Oh, and ███████████████████████.

P.S. If you (███████████████████████) see fit to ███████████████████████. The old ███████████████████████. Can you say, BLOCKED?? Sucks, huh? :)

1300 miles

Day 5: miles 1300 - Bristol, Virginia or Tennessee... Not sure... I am so ready to be back home. Or at least in Alabama. Si has been unbelievably good on this trip. He has a cough that is sounding worse every day though. Pretty sure the day we spent in Louisville out in the cold rain didn't help much. Janie has been an awesome help with Si. I hope she doesn't start to resent helping with him... Jason has needed a couple of attitude adjustments, but overall this has been a really good trip. Our original plans of being gone for 4 days has turned into 6, which means I am already stressing about school on Monday. But it will all work out and be fine ☺

Got to Knoxville later than I wanted to. Unpacked our bags in our 2 adjoining rooms (score for Janie-no couch sleeping tonight!) Jason decided we should go to Texas Roadhouse for supper. We walked in the door at 9:56. By 10:48 we still had no food. Then Jason started feeling sick. Not sniffles/cold sick. Like vertigo/can't see straight/gonna throw up sick. And he did. Throw up I mean. I shoved one of the buckets they serve peanuts in under his face and he filled it up. I almost couldn't stand beside him when he was puking because I was worried I might puke too. Janie scooped Si up and took him to another table away from us. (Yet more proof of how awesome she is). We didn't leave the restaurant until 11:30 because it took forever to get Jason to the truck. Oh and I got to drive the truck for the first time tonight. Not the ideal circumstance... I drove way too slow and almost hit one little white car. That's when the tears started. I was just overwhelmed. Finally got to the hotel and got Jason all the way back up to our room. Janie stayed with Si in the truck because I had to go back out to park the truck anyway. (The truck is now sitting in the far corner of the parking lot all by itself) she had him wrapped in a blanket laying in her lap. She is not perfect but she is as close as she can be sometimes... ❤