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Re: Morning

• VarunaTT member

  

  January 2015

  We went to a restaurant that we've been wanting to try for awhile last night.  The food was really good, but we were there for 1.5 hours.  I watched one table that got there at the same time get their food and leave.  One table got there after us, got their food and left.  Another table after us got their food and left.  Our server was so damned slow I could've murdered him.  He was somehow magic in knowing when I had reached the, "I'm just leaving" point and would suddenly show up.  I know he just forgot to order our food, we had an second appetizer "on the house" b/c it took so long.  No buddy, when you got to the table you said, "Oh!".  You forgot us, then forgot you put it in.  DH just went and stood at the register b/c we figured we'd be there for another 1/2 hour before the transaction was finished.  I actually went to the car; if I had to hear him call me "friend" again or tell me about his paganism or any other thing he was doing to annoy me, I might've snapped.

  
  

  So, that got me home late.  Which I had a photo board to do for an event tonight, so that ran late . So I didn't get to work out.  Plus, the photo board took way longer than it should've, b/c I had low resolution graphics and had to redesign things so it didn't look like sh!t.

  
  

  Basically, me and this week are through, we're breaking up.  Everything this week has been high performance, go-go-go, trying to catch up and reorganize.  To channel RPRR:
  
  
  

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• tawillers member

  

  January 2015

  I'd be annoyed at the height and weight thing, conn.  There are no concerns, so back off.

  
  

  DD1 is headed to school this morning.  Now I have stuff to do at home.  I have got to get caught up on laundry and try to get the living room in order.  The kitchen is still messy but all we have left to do is paint the board and batten and touch up the wall color.  We should be done today.

  
  

  I also have my work errands to run since I couldn't do them yesterday.

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• 6fsn member

  

  January 2015

  I'm so over 6let's homework.  He has these little projects that I try really hard to stay out of, but I know other parents and grandparents are doing massive amounts of work on them.  It's kinder and already I'm annoyed at parents doing the homework.

  Example: They had to put an ending on a turkey escaping for Tday.  6let said he was a baker and baked a road out of cake.  This was his idea.  They had a turkey they had to decorate to go along with their ending.  He wanted it to have an apron and each feather have a different kitchen tool.  I drew the feathers and traced an apron for him to cut and glue. 

  Grandma next door busted out the cricut, glitter, crystals, and fabrics to make a princess.

  Now he has to do a timeline of his life.  My only input was that each event be on a notecard we can string together.  It will make it easier to travel on the bus and if there are mistakes.  I can't wait to hear how Grandma is "helping."

  And because of this I broke out his photo albums.  Of course M2 asks for hers.  Of course she doesn't have any.  Guess what else I'm doing today?

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• mrsconn23 member

  

  January 2015

  Ugh 6...I have nightmares about elementary projects and homework.  I'm not ready to start that all over again and I probably won't be by the time DefConn goes to school. 

  
  

  
  

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• GBCK member

  

  January 2015

  first kids have all the good photo albums.  But middle kids get over it :-P

  
  

  I am very glad we don't have preschool homework.  Not that we'd do it.  We were asked to do a survey recently, and it was horriffically long.  Then we realized it was being sent to the wealthy county where the chain of childcare centers is headquartered to help them, nothing local and so I pitched it.

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• 6fsn member

  

  January 2015

  fourth kid has pictures of her sister with her name slapped on the back.  There is a big difference between photos in 1970 and 1975.  Not to mention the size of the other kids in the pics.  Nice try mom.

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• DixieNormous330 member

  

  January 2015

  For those who didn't see last night - PF took her first independent steps at home! She's been doing it (2-3 steps) inconsistently at school with her physical therapist. Last night was the first time she did it at home! She's wobbly and looks drunk but she's on her way to independent movement!!!!
  

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• 6fsn member

  

  January 2015

  She looked so excited too!!

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• tawillers member

  

  January 2015

  I watched that video so many times last night.

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• DixieNormous330 member

  

  January 2015

  It's such a huge deal because for so long we've been hearing from her physical therapist that she's on the verge. Now she's REALLY starting!
  

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• *Barbie* member

  

  January 2015

  6fsn said:

  I'm so over 6let's homework.  He has these little projects that I try really hard to stay out of, but I know other parents and grandparents are doing massive amounts of work on them.  It's kinder and already I'm annoyed at parents doing the homework.

  Example: They had to put an ending on a turkey escaping for Tday.  6let said he was a baker and baked a road out of cake.  This was his idea.  They had a turkey they had to decorate to go along with their ending.  He wanted it to have an apron and each feather have a different kitchen tool.  I drew the feathers and traced an apron for him to cut and glue. 

  Grandma next door busted out the cricut, glitter, crystals, and fabrics to make a princess.

  Now he has to do a timeline of his life.  My only input was that each event be on a notecard we can string together.  It will make it easier to travel on the bus and if there are mistakes.  I can't wait to hear how Grandma is "helping."

  why aren't the teachers giving a failing grade to the kids who are obviously not doing their own homework? that's what I would do. (I probably wouldn't be a teacher much longer, as i'm sure the parents would be bitching that I expected the kids to do their own work.)
  
  Wolverine gets recommended "homework" - they send out a monthly activity calendar/packet for things to do at home. We do some of it - like the reading and writing exercises. I can see a difference with her, and the teachers said that they can tell which kids actually go through the activities with their parents. 

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• 6fsn member

  

  January 2015

  I really don't care what sort of grade the other kid is getting.  I just don't want him to look at their awesome stuff and feel like his isn't good enough.  His is pretty darn awesome

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• PMeg819 member

  

  January 2015

  Man, that is awesome Dixie! GO PF!
  
  My preschool rant: all the damn crafts and papers they do at school. I try to save some of it, but DS is a packrat and he wants to save it all. So when they have free time, they can get a coloring page and color. Well he wants to save those. Or they take home a paper where they worked on writing their name or the letters they are learning (so we get these like once a week) and he wants to save all of those as well.
  
  This morning was a mess (literally, dog crapped in bedroom and I stepped in it) and now I'm trying to work but there is drama from the FDA. Never change government, never change.
  
  
  

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• tawillers member

  

  January 2015

  PMeg819 said:

  
  My preschool rant: all the damn crafts and papers they do at school. I try to save some of it, but DS is a packrat and he wants to save it all. So when they have free time, they can get a coloring page and color. Well he wants to save those. Or they take home a paper where they worked on writing their name or the letters they are learning (so we get these like once a week) and he wants to save all of those as well.
  
  
  

  We are having this issue with Kindergarten.  DD1 brings home 3-5 papers per day and thinks we need to keep it all.  We save the important things but everything else gets pitched.  She got butthurt about it for a good 3-4 months and we had to gently explain that not every little thing is special.  She still tries to make her case for keeping things that need to be thrown away, but for the most part she's over it now.

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• mrsconn23 member

  

  January 2015

  I'm constantly sneaking DefConn's school stuff into the trash. 

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• *Barbie* member

  

  January 2015

  mrs.conn23 said:

  I'm constantly sneaking DefConn's school stuff into the trash. 

  I was saving it for a while, when it was maybe 1-2 things/week, but now most of it goes in the recycling bin after a few days. 

  
  

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• mrsconn23 member

  

  January 2015

  DefConn's done a couple footprint/handprint things that I need to put in his baby book, but yeah...the rest is ditched. 

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• *Barbie* member

  

  January 2015

  6fsn said:

  I really don't care what sort of grade the other kid is getting.  I just don't want him to look at their awesome stuff and feel like his isn't good enough.  His is pretty darn awesome

  He should be proud of his stuff because *he* did it, and not grandma - although i can get it would be difficult to convey that to a 5/6yo. 

  
  

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• PMeg819 member

  

  January 2015

  Yeah, after a while I started having him put it in a pile and we do a keep or throw look at them every few weeks. Some I do save, but I try to have him look at it and see why we don't need it. I threw a bunch of things away one time and of course, he asked me about where they were. His mind is a steel trap over those random preschool crafts.
  

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