Mildly Stinky, Middle Child Syndrome and Form 2

Canadian Tire did not disappoint! We got there and they were like “Where’s form two….we need form two. Can’t do anything without form two!” Well I lost it! Not so much on the outside, but inside I sure did. I “calmly” explained to them that the idiot I had spoken to said that what I had with me was enough and that I had already paid the twenty bucks to get a stupid piece of paper that said it was OK to have the camper on the road for 24 hours. (By calmly I mean I raised my voice just a little and refrained from going over the counter.) Still my fave place to be. Maybe not so much. Anyway, they managed to do the inspection without form two (imagine that) and we just have to take it in when we get it. I really hope Michael gets on that soon!

Playday today was awesome! I was able to vamp up my tan and have a lot of fun with some great kids! I overheard a kid on my team telling his own mom, who was also one of the leaders, that “that lady is a really good mom!” Totally proud (and unprecedented) moment! Maybe shouldn’t have kissed the kid, but hey…whatever! (JK!) And would someone tell me…why are boiled hotdogs so nasty at home but ambrosia when you are hanging with 5-10 year olds? Being in Matt’s class at lunchtime was really an eye-opener. Those kids really want someone to listen to them. I had never met about half of them but once I showed a little interest in their work and their lives, they were all so eager to show me EVERYTHING they had done in the classroom. Every kid got the pointer and told me which picture was theirs and several read me their stories. We even sat around and had a good talk about bullying and choosing friends wisely. It was a real incentive to pay more attention to my own kids. They have a lot to say if I am still and listen. Poor Matt though….I had sent him to Abby’s class so I could meet him in there and slick him up with sunscreen. Poor, ignored, forgotten, un-photographed middle child….when I finally remembered, he was just standing around waiting in the kindergarten class….what was that about being a good mom?? oh yeah....we got one first place and one second place ribbon! I think it was a direct result of the awesome cheering section...ME!

Andrew spent the day at Carleton for the regional track meet. He didn’t place but was OK with that. He placed first at his school and this was a day off for him. It was weird for me to go to pick him up and see that he had spent the whole day in a crowd of hundreds of kids. It would have freaked me out, but he was fine with it. Probably would have been more fine if he had remembered his water bottle. I swear, we need to get up about three hours early for school if we want everyone to be reasonably clean, fed and prepared. Umm….yeah…..I can deal with mildly stinky, slightly hungry and not quite Boy Scout approved if it means two more hours of shut eye.