I feel so grateful, as I am surrounded with an amazing village of people, to help ME survive and who help the children be guided and nurtured in ways that they need.
It truly does take a village, but having 4 amazingly different personalities, character traits, and behaviors, one cannot manage this task alone.
I recently had to have my mom and step-dad come out to the house, to spend the afternoon with the kids, while I took care of my fitness certification maintenance for a few hours.
Austin was telling my mom that he LOVES the German Bread, Stollen. It’s available at Aldi only during the holidays. He just told her that I bought this particular loaf just for him. My mom told him that she loves it too, and that we have German in us, as my grandmother is German, and we also have Italian & Swedish on my dad’s side. She told him that she wasn’t sure what his dad’s side of the family had in them, and Austin quickly replied “video games!” with this huge smile on his face. lol PRICELESS!
Adam told me recently that he couldn’t hear what his sister was saying because he was “death” rather than “Deaf.” hahaha
Autumn found her glasses over the weekend, and she’s really happy to have them now because she can see the clock in class. However, one of her “friends” told her she doesn’t like her anymore, since she looks funny in glasses.. how rude is that!? I told her that’s not a true friend, and she just has to ignore those types of comments. It’s not nice at all. It’s hurtful. So, she has also mentioned that this same friend hangs out with VSCO girls, and I had to google what that meant, and now I know.. I’ve been educated. it’s girls who take selfies and wear certain clothes, and usually carry a certain type of water bottle.. So many things I did not know.. lol
Allie has a major interest in plays, so we have a date in a couple of weeks to see “The Play That Went Wrong” at the WAC in Fay. She also wants to go to The Buttered Biscuit for brunch, so we will do that too.
As for other fun activities, we will be going to Crystal Bridges on Friday night to see the “Forest in Lights” with Papa & have a nice dinner before that. I might take the kids to Waffle House. 🙂 They have been wanting to go there, since it opened in Rogers several months ago.
School is going ok this week so far. Last week, I had to go to the school to get Austin to go to the office. He was refusing to do his schoolwork, and just sat there. Even the school counselor couldn’t get him to go to the office. That’s when I get the call. ugh! He did catch up on his work, but it’s exhausting that we are going through this struggle in school. I hope he will realize that we are in charge, and not him. A new behavior plan has been established at school, so hoping that it resolves the problems. We meet again on the 19th of this month to review. In the meantime, they are not going to their dad’s, I have taken away device privileges, and trying to monitor Austin’s every move, rather than just letting him play in the house, unsupervised. He is sneaky, and will do things that he knows he shouldn’t, and he’s FAST. So.. this has been fun. He likes to mess with electronics, and move cable cords around, mess with the ROKU, DVD Player, the Nintendo Wii, the stereo, you name it.. I’ve GOT to find an awesome electronic set that he can build and work on amazing things for him for Christmas…
I know that November is the month when many express their thankfulness for things, people, experiences, life, etc.
I just want to make sure those that are in my circle, know that I appreciate them on a daily basis, for without them, who knows where my head would be.. somewhere going crazy.. and I’m already crazy. haha
All in a Day 