Just Another Day

A couple of funny phrases from today-

From C: I colo (color) too Daydoe.

From S: (and this is frequent in her prayers) Please bless us that harm will come to us. (We have got to get the NO harm thing in there.)

And the rest of the day was almost uneventful. I woke up at 4:15 and T was in the bathroom sick. He's such a good kid and takes care of so much of it himself (which reminds me that I need to go and clean their toilet tonight again.) Most of the rest of the kids were up not too much later. 4 were up when DH left at 5:45 for work.

T still was feeling stinky before school started but the color started returning to his cheeks about 45 minutes after school started and so I had him get ready and off we went. It sounds cruel I know. But after he starts to feel better he'll just play anyway and he isn't contagious or anything.

Then the preschool lady came. I gave her a couple of pieces of advice, filled out paperwork, and watched another teacher interact with S. They brought S some crayons (big fat chunky ones... NICE) and a notebook that is actually her school notebook. Of course they needed that back and S wasn't up for giving it too them. I think she really thought she could abscond with it. They just weren't direct enough and were being too sweet. It gave me a chance to tell them what works for her. It has to be direct and it has to be a command.

Today when she wouldn't stop throwing tantrums I sent her out back (and then watched her interact with the dog. She did great by the way, very gentle... progress in the making). I shut the blinds in the back door and let her scream. She knew she just needed to calm down and be quiet and she could come in but she wouldn't give in. My friend R came over and heard her and opened the door and hollered like a monster from Monsters Inc. at her. I laughed and S seemed so surprised to see a door open and have someone oogly woogly at her and then shut the door before she could get a word in. It helped. Maybe I'll try that more (or I'll just invite R over to do it for me as it's kind of entertaining for me too.)

I did bottle some tomatoes for me and a couple of quarts for someone at ballet. I hate to see people's tomatoes go to waste. They look so pretty in the jars. I did pick maybe 30 pounds of peaches today and have to figure out what to do. I need to either cute them and freeze them for smoothies, can them (which I am not so sure will get eaten as much), make jam (something I have yet to do), or dehydrate them (which I like too much and down them like candy). But I have to get moving on it because they will be ripening quick and then all of the pears as well.

Tomorrow I am going to get my behind out of bed to go swimming. We got another person to come with us so it will be more fun. And, as a little carrot to get out of bed there is that coke machine that sells the bottles for 75 cents. Now that's a reason to get out of bed at 5:30.