12/09/06 Cruise Continued ~ Pirating Bananas DIS Geekorama Part 2 Part 2

[MrsMork]

Kids are watching The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Aaron's choice.??? It has stopped raining, but still very overcast and wet everywhere out there.

 

[lbgraves]

Well, it looks like William is going to lose his third tooth in a week. The middle two are gone and today while I was out cleaning out the garage for yard sale junk...he bit his sister and one of the next ones "crunched." It is moving and bleeding quite a bit but I don't think that it was quite ready to come out yet. He will really be gumming things for a while now...and I don't think that the TF recognizes teeth that were loosened via biting your sibling.

 

[87Heel]

...and I don't think that the TF recognizes teeth that were loosened via biting your sibling.

We'll have to check the TF Regulation Manual... I think you may be correct!

Oh, and OUCH!

 

[Jhalkias]

Dennis, your grandniece looks like a beautiful young lady!

Good luck on the house hunting Lisa - never heard of that web site Becka.

 

[lbgraves]

We'll have to check the TF Regulation Manual... I think you may be correct!

Oh, and OUCH!

Well, since he told me that he learned his lesson, appologized to Kaitlyn MANY times tonight and suggestd that they watch The Twelve Dancing Princesses while I was working he might end up with $1.00 instead of the standard $2.00.

 

[lbgraves]

I had to thnk you guys for letting me know what the girl on the show on Lifetime that I am watching now was talking about. She said that her mom took her to get ice cream and she had a ton of JIMMIES on it.

 

[brack]

Half way down page two!

 

[brack]

We are on vacation in the mountains of NC at a place called Lake Junaluska. It is near Waynesville and Maggie Valley. The house is beautiful and sits right on the shore of the lake.

The best thing about it? High speed cable internet I ran out an bought an inexpensive wireless router and now ....

The following two pictures are from just outside our front door.

 

[brack]

Even JoJo the DISDog got to come here with us on this vacation. Here he is on an ottoman at the front window of the house. You can see the lake in the background.

 

[brack]

We had steaks outside that Annette cooked on the grill.

 

[Jhalkias]

Even JoJo the DISDog got to come here with us on this vacation. Here he is on an ottoman at the front window of the house. You can see the lake in the background.

OK, when they say a dog's life, if they mean Jojo, I want that life. That dog has better vacations than me!

 

[lbgraves]

I can't believe this. We start school on 8/27 and we still do not know where the kids are going to go to school. I requested our second choice last Monday and here a week later plus a day still no letter and I can't get an answer out of the superintendent for someone to return my call. No wonder our schools are so screwed up! OY! I am prepared to with draw the kids next week so that they don't officially miss any school. Maybe I can find some one to pay to teach them for a month or two until this move thing is finished. Also while talking to a friend last night I realized that I don't have to worry about clearing out stuff to sell the house. Since this one is paid off we can completely move out and have the house clean and open to show. I would rather do that then stress about getting a call from a realtor that they are going to show the house in an hour and the kids have spread their toys all over the place...then where to put them. This might end up being easier than I thought it would be.

 

[brack]

This is in the two level backyard flower beds.

 

[brack]

This is in the two level backyard flower beds.

 

[lillygator]

Lisa are you moving? where?


great photos Brack!

 

[brack]

great photos Brack!

Thanks V.

I hope you all are doing well in Florida. We'll be there Labor Day. So how about cooling it off for us?

 

[Jhalkias]

Brack,

Great photos!

 

[87Heel]

Great photos, Brack. I've had fun with flower photos this summer, too (and the nice macro lens makes it more fun!).

 

[87Heel]

Lisa, I'm sorry the school district is making everything difficult.

 

[becka]

Can I join in on the whining about schools when I technically still have a week before DS starts? I posted this on the CB but I guess I will post it here as well. Do you guys think I am just feeling upset for no reason just because I am new to all this?

DS starts K next Tuesday and we have all been so excited. Tonight was the Back To School Night for K students at his school. When we get there they take the kids off to the playground and out for a bus ride and the parents go to the library for an overview of the K classrooms by the K teachers. The school has two K teachers both of whom are very experienced with teaching K and who have both been with the school for a long time. Their reputations are both very good. I was feeling very good about DS's year since I knew he would have some experienced teachers.

Well we have the discussions and they go over how their classrooms are run (how they do snacks, rest time, folders, etc..) and then we find out that they have 5 more K students registered than the limit for the 2 teachers so they are going to have to hire a 3rd K teacher. They just found out about 30 minutes prior to the meeting. They don't know who it is, where they are coming from, how much experience. They don't even know what room they are going to have. This school is already really crowded and they were thinking that the new K teacher might take over the art room.

At the end of the meeting they read out the teachers for the kids and of course DS has the mystery teacher. Nathan was so excited that he was going to meet his teacher and see his classroom tonight and now he couldn't because they don't know who it will be. On top of that the teachers stood up there and said that after the screenings that happened last week they divided up the kids into who they wanted in their classes and based on parent requests. #1 I didn't know they had parent requests and #2 they just then told everyone that has the mystery teacher that their kids were not "wanted".

So now we get to wait until the school-wide Back To School Night on Thursday and they hope to have somebody hired and have them a room. On such short notice I cannot imagine what kind of teacher and how organized everything is going to be in DS's classroom. DS really does pretty well with structure and I can't imagine that at first his class is going to be all that structured.

On top of all that we go to pick up DS from the playground and I notice he has red stains on his mouth. Well they had popsicles. I asked him if he told the principal (who was the one out there with them and provided the popsicles) that he was allergic to milk and corn. Nathan said he told him several times but the principal told him it would be fine. I go to find the principal to see what popsicles he had and I find out the popsicles had corn syrup in them. The principal said that Nathan told him several times that he was allergic to milk and corn but he said he just didn't think about corn syrup. Thankfully DS does not have terrible reactions and just breaks out in a rash but still I can't believe a kid tells him he has allergies and they still hand over the food without checking with a parent or at least reading the box. The principal seems very nice and was very apologetic but after the whole mystery teacher thing I was already a bit frazzled.

So am I just new to this and overreacting? This is not exactly how I pictured sending DS off to K.