halloween and all that fun stuff!
How was Halloween you ask? Well, certainly did not go as I planned....when will i learn that things very rarely go as planned?
My dd B is too old for Halloween anymore (according to her) but she wanted to go and hang out with a friend for the evening. No problem I say.
My DS J had made plans with 2 of his friends (and our neighbors) to go out together. No problem I say.
My students wanted to have earlier lesson times so that they had time to dress up and go out. No problem I say.
Anyone seeing where the problem is starting to come in???
Monday morning.....
Kids go off to school.....
I get a panicked call from my son
" MOM! i have a volleyball game tonight after school!!! I won't be able to go out with my friends!"
Oh, the mom in me got MAD! Let me tell you. Who in there right might schedules a VB game on halloween night? I check his schedule... yup, there it is, from 5-8 pm.... no time for trick or treating with that schedule because he probably won't be home till 8:30 or 9pm.
Call the school:
Do they know what the did? (oh that reminds me of another fun school story of the gym being triple booked on the same night!!! AND NO ONE IN THE SCHOOL NOTICED! it took my sister and I calling them before the even noticed the scheduling conflict!) .... anyways.... I talked to the secretary, she knows nothing about it.... I talk to one coach, well his not their coach so he knows nothing about it.... Can't talk to his actual coaches because they are not teachers at this school, they are 18 year old graduates.... so of course they no nothing either!!
Finally, I find someone who actually knows something and only 2 of the 4 teams are going to play that night so he will be done at about 6:30. OK, not great but at least he will be able to go out.
Got to the end of the school day, son comes home in a panic, I try to calm him down and send him off to his game. he was not happy about it but he did go. I start my teaching day which now is going to go from 4-6:30 with no break. (usually I break for dinner but in the interest of getting everyone done quickly, I skip my dinner break and schedule students during that time) Everything is going along......
AND THEN.....
I get a text from my DD.....
" MOM, I need you RIGHT NOW!"
Um.... what to do.... I'm still teaching.... i have another 11/2 hours to go. What the heck?
So now i'm trying to discreeting text my DD and find out what's happening.
Well, she was having a major teenage drama moment.... needless to say she ended up not really needing me RIGHT NOW and was just fine. Came home from school and got ready to go to her friend.
I'm still teaching when my Hubby phones.....
What are doing for dinner? Is he going out with our son or going to his game? Are we ok with him trick or treating with his friends with no parent supervisor? (friends one a year older than my son and one a year younger, want to go by themselves, we have never liked this idea as we always go to make sure of things.... we never stop them from where they want to go or for how long, just keep an eye on them)
I, of course, can't take the call.... He leaves another message and now he's sounding kind of pissed off.... lovely
Finally I finish teaching, no son home yet, no husband home yet, DD needing a ride to her friend and kids showing up a the door. OH yeah, and I completely forgot about dinner yet too!!!
I whip up dinner really fast and not at all healthy
but it will do. Hubby comes home and is mad. Now what?
I try to talk to him, he won't talk. Try to get him to decide what he wants to do, he won't talk. I finally tell him what I am going to do and I think I stopped caring at that point as to what he will do. (I know not the most mature thing
)
I get my DD and get ready to drive, when I hear WAILING coming from the garage. Here comes my son in tears! He just got home from the game and his friends (the creeps!) left without him. He was devastated!
My hubby comes stomping out as I try to console my son with, 'we'll try to find them in the car' Hubby decides (grumpily) to take DD to her friend and help DS find his friends.
A few minutes after they left, who comes to the door? HIS FRIENDS!!!!
Thank goodness for phones... call hubby, tell friends to WAIT and son comes home. Give son my phone, tell him to check in every 15 min and let them go.
Darling daughter B calls..... MOM, I thought we were dressing up but were not and I feel stupid in my costume, can you bring me clothes! Pack up clothes and get ready to go to her friend.
Darling son J calls..... MOM, my friends want to go home but I don't can I keep trick or treating by myself? (um, NO but I will come find you)
Drive to B and hand off clothes, drive to J and pick him up. He of course, is not happy with his friends and wants to continue. I think, let's go to my sister's house, they live on a block at the edge of town and never get any kids so the few who do go around get TONS of candy.
Drive to my sisters, meet up with her hubby and 2 of their 3 kids. J joins them and we go around the mile long block. He gets tons of candy and is now happy.
We are finally done, B phones... Can you pick me up?
So off we go to get her, and finally we get home again!
Eat some candy, make up with hubby and finally crash into bed!
That was my Halloween.... how was yours?
I know my Halloween was a lot like many households Add in that I have ds bday to contend with and I Totally hear you with the running back and forth...not making everyone happy...etc. Good grief when is the demands of a mother going to slow???
