Ah... home at last!!! I just spent the last hour & a half walking the halls of the YMCA, trying to keep D and Little A occupied while Big A had cheer leading practice.... Torture. That is the only word to describe it. Well, we actually weren't in the Y the whole time--we dropped Big A off at 6:30 and went over to the grocery store to buy cereal and wine. Cereal for tomorrow's breakfast. Wine for Mommy's Dinner. That took about 15 minutes. Then back to the Y to attempt to work on D's homework. That lasted about 10 minutes--- Maybe less. By the second counting exercise, D was complaining-- "This taking soooo long! This homework soooo hard...." The activity that he was complaining about was counting 6 little plastic ants and placing them on a card with a picture of a picnic basket.... It took him at least 10 tries to get it right. He couldn't seem to get past the number 4 without losing concentration! Time to talk to his pediatrician about ADD meds-- or maybe a Xanax prescription for Mommy!
After the attempt at "homework", we started walking around the YMCA--- well the kids were running and tackling each other, while I was dragging myself behind them. We stopped for a while in the Gym-- I talked to some parents that I knew, while D and Little A played catch with a Happy Meal doll... They invented a game that was sort of a combination of catch/soccer/tackle football. It also involved lots of screaming and sliding across the gym floor... I'm sure that they disrupted the basketball practice that was going on right beside them, but it kept them busy for while, so I let them play... I have found that I have to pick my battles, and tonight I did not feel like having a battle at all. All I could think about was that at 8pm the cheer leading practice would end, and by 8:30 the kids would be in bed--- and by 8:35 I would be on the couch with a glass of wine... And here I sit... a successful end to a very crappy day!!! :)
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