I was having a not great few weeks. Things keep breaking, we keep having unexpected things come up that we have to purchase and with school coming to a close in the next month it will not get any better. I am taking the work keys test on Thursday so I can look into possible jobs hopefully with dist 70 so I would still be home with the kids for the most part. I had been feeling sorry for myself that things just aren't going easy for us. Then I got word that a friend from school whose husband has been fighting cancer died on Saturday.  They have three kids, one in fifth grade, one in first, and one in kindergarten. I think about how they won't get to experience life with their dad and he won't get to see them grow up. It was even harder for them because they thought he was doing pretty good and went to Denver for a checkup and he was admitted and never came home. It makes me remember that my financial problems are nothing compared to that. We may not have a lot of money and it can get stressful at times but at least we have our health and each other. I think sometimes I take my family for granted that they will always be there, and I for them but then something like this happens and makes you realize that any one of us could be taken any time and maybe without warning. So hug your family and tell them you love them and appreciate that they are there to drive you crazy.

Brandon's play

Brandon's 4th grade play was about Colorado history. He decided to do his project on Mesa Verde. He wanted to do a diorama and a power point presentation. I ended up doing the majority of the project and diorama and Mom did most of the powerpoint. He tells me two days before the project was due. Then he got upset because they didn't choose him to be one of the presenters for the play. I told him that if he had learned more and practiced his speech more than maybe they would have. The day before the play he came home and said he was supposed to be an Indian  for the play so we spent the rest of the evening creating an Indian costume for him to wear. It is a good thing I like that kind of stuff so I had some things on hand. They played their recorders and sang songs and 11 of the kids did their presentations. I don't know how they chose who got to do the presentations but most of theirs wasn't any better than Brandon's.

                                              Brandon during the play

                                            Brandon saying he was an indian from Mesa Verde

                                            At the end of the play

His Mesa Verde cliff dwelling diorama

 

Attitudes

Brandon is already acting like a teenager. He has attitude, talks back, and doesn't listen. He is only ten. He keeps forgetting homework and papers. He had a big project due at school and I kept asking him when is it due and if he got any papers on it and he kept saying no until he tells me two days before it is due oh by the way and I find out he had a paper for two weeks in his desk. Then he doesn't want to help with the project, and gets mad when he doesn't get picked to present at the play. He told us the day before the play that he had to have an Indian costume so we were scrambling to make something up and I had to go to school to drop off the thumb drive his project was on because he forgot it. I considered not helping him but getting bad grades on top of everything wouldn't help matters. He can be so confident one minute and crying that he is stupid the next. What happened to my sweet little boy who was so considerate of everyone especially his sister. Now he acts like he can't stand to be around her half the time. At this rate he will be grounded the rest of school year.  I think he will be a little better when Scott goes on fires because he knows money is tight and worries about it constantly even though we keep telling him we are fine. Once Scott starts working again maybe he will calm down a little.  I thought I would at least have my little girl for a while longer but she wants to grow up too fast also. She wants to wear makeup and jewelry and a training bra. She also pretend talks on the phone and told me that her play phone was too old and I needed to upgrade it because she couldn't text on it. She really wants a real phone because her best friend who is also 7 has a real one, so why shouldn't she also. Why are they in such a hurry to grow up? I would give anything to be young and not have responsibilities again. I feel like I am losing both my babies at the same time. I look forward to the next phase of their lives preferably without attitude, but I miss the sweet, innocence too. Of course in this day and age it is almost impossible to be innocent with everything that goes on in the world. I will have more on Brandon's play after I get the pictures downloaded.

Science Fair

                                                  Jessie's class project

                                             Brandon's project

Jessie did a group project where they saw if worms went to the candy side or the fruits and vegetables side.
Brandon did his on whether families had similar fingerprints especially siblings. He had to say no on the siblings because Chris and I had complete opposite types but Brandon and Jessie's were similar and his partner and his brother were similar so I think Chris and I were a fluke. Scott took him  to CBI and he got fingerprinted and they told him about them so he thought that was pretty cool.