Just kidding
I thought I’d be home all week doing nothing so I’d be able to blog, but uh, I haven’t.
I’ve decided my scar will be big no matter what and that sitting at home is no fun.
Tuesday at 10:30 am they have story time at the library within the Springs Preserve so I thought it’d be fun to go, plus we could visit Jon’s parents and then hit Trader Joe’s ’cause they’re all relatively close together and I only needed light things like bread and crackers.
So we went to story time. The grandma aged worker, or around 70 aged worker, read stories and then began interacting with the family of three kids and a mom that had been there when we got there. The worker/ volunteer was interacting with the other three kids and not talking to Lilah, like at all. Eden was by me and not wanting to sit at the table so she wasn’t there to ignore.รย I felt like it was a little awkwardรย and left, but I’m pretty sure that the three board books she read was were all she had planned since the last book was read at the request of the little boy.
We had fun and visited the places the girls love. Lilah was a huge help. She carried all we needed in her back pack, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to go. She did leave it behind one time and we had to retrace our steps to find it.รย I don’t mention that she forgot the bag to others while she’s around because it was an honest mistake, I forgot it too, and I want her to remember how much she helped me and not that she almost lost the backpack.
We went to the Blake’s for lunch and the girls had fun playing. Lilah ate two pieces of half corn on the cobs and finished Eden’s off. That has got to be her favorite way to eat corn, or any food.
I then got a little lost looking for Trader Joe’s and had to call Jon to look it up for me. We got there and it went mostly OK. I was the mom letting my kids run a little wild in the frozen food area. They were just being silly until they almost tipped over my cart by climbing onto the side of it. Then they stayed by my side.
Today I did a number of errands in my Target shopping center. The girls got pretty good at staying by my side once we got to Target, we’d gone to three other stores, and they behaved the best they ever have in Target, at least for not being in the cart. The worst part was the heavy shopping cart that I had too push.
I’ve left all the stuff in the trunk for Jon to get out when he gets home. Most of the bags would be fine for me to lift with my left arm, but I’m too lazy and Jon would want me to wait anyways.
Britta had made gifts for Lilah and Eden so they came by this afternoon. The girls played and Sam and I talked. It was nice since she wasn’t up to doing much and I’m not suppose to do much.
I also had my car washed this morning and it rained this afternoon.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Wow, you have been busy!
The storytime thing happened to us once too when Ethan was almost four. The lady kept calling on these two kids (who obviously came all the time) that were not sitting or raising their hands. And then there was Ethan, sitting politely and raising his hand, but she wouldn’t call on him.
I overlooked it until the fourth or fifth time, when she asked a question and nobody else was paying attention but Ethan. He raised his hand AGAIN, I looked her in the eyes, saw that she saw us, and then watched in horror as she ignored us and left the question unanswered! I couldn’t take it anymore…we stood up and left in the middle of the storytime. Ethan was heartbroken that “the mean teacher wouldn’t let me have a turn.” I told him that wasn’t a teacher, that was just a mean lady who told stories so that people would listen to her. ๐
Vindictive? Maybe. Right on target? Absolutely!
June 5th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
I’ve been busy, but it was mostly just walking around.
My errands consisted of shopping for bras, then shoes, but very light shoes and the girls held the boxes for me, and then the dollar store for Lilah’s party before we went to Target. Nothing was very heavy, except the pull-ups which we buy in a larger box, and then the Target cart was heavier than I remembered.
I can’t believe she blantently ignored Ethan like that. That’s crazy.
I think she just didn’t know what to talk to Lilah about. The little boy was a read head so she was talking to him about being a red head herself and how special they are, though his hair was just barely redder than Lilah’s, and then she started talking to him about his sisters and she just never made eye contact or looked at Lilah. I didn’t talk to Lilah about it so I don’t think she noticed it like I did.
It was weird. I don’t think this worker always does the reading time so I may try to go another time and see what happens.