First Day of School...

Ry starts first grade today. I took him on Friday to meet the teacher. AWWWWWWW !!! He is growing up so fast. He was soooo excited for today. This comes as a shock to me b/c at the end of the school year last year he told me he was never going back. A Kindergarten drop out....what fun !! I am glad he changed his mind and has decided to continue his education. I am really tired of reading the screens on the x-box games and gameboy. I took him to get his haircut yesterday. It is back in full on military style. I don't know why I keep it so short, but I can't stand the scruffy look. Oh this brings me back to the M.A.S.K. days !! Okay, some of you know what I am talking about...others do not. Please let me take a minute to explain. When Ry and Rae were little I was known for keeping them extremely well groomed and cleaned. I FREAKED out at Ry's first b-day b/c he got orange frosting all over him. I truly hated for them to be dirty. Anyway, not only did I not like for my kids to look scruffy, but it bothered me when other kids looked scruffy. I mean come on moms, how long does it take to wash their face, clean the boogies out of their nose and brush their hair? Anyway, so I always said I was the founding member of M.A.S.K.- Mother's Against Scruffy Kids. As the years have gone on I have gotten lax and I truly think that if I had more than 2 kids that I would probably get booted from M.A.S.K. Rae seems to have taken every step possible to get me banned. I fix her hair and 10 minutes later she has the pony tail pulled out and she has a string of hair in her mouth !! EWWWWW !!!

So, back to the first day of school. I had to get Ry a new lunchbox yesterday. His old one is floating around Kids R Kids right now and who knows if I will ever see it again. He picked out a lunch box that looked like it would fit 4 lunches in it. I had to explain to him that he was 6, not 16. So, I broke his poor little heart and made him get a different one. I am SUCH A MEAN MOMMY !!! I also got him a new backpack. Okay....no flames.....we got him a New York Yankees sling back pack. The kid loves the Yankees for some reason. I still haven't figured it out. His favorite baseball teams are the Yankees, Cubs, Astros, and the Indians ( just b/c it has a smiling indian as the mascot !! LOL ).


I will update you and let you know how it goes. Last year Ryan had an issue w/ keeping his mouth shut and staying on task in class. Part of me is afraid that he got his Daddy's ADD, but I think society medicates children too fast. That is the easy way out. If Ryan did have ADD, it would only be slight from what I have seen and I think kids CAN fully function through that. When I was a kid only a small small handful of kids had ADD. There was only one who I remember who really needed his meds... MARK !!!!!

Whoa, I am getting off topic left and right here. Not sure what topic I was really on. We have baseball practice tonight which means he practices until close to 8:30, then has to go home, get a shower and go to bed. ( I feed him before practice folks !! ) His teacher will LOVE him tomorrow. Oh, so you know how I was sooo excited to get lots of sleep this weekend? Yeah well, last night not so much. I was ALMOST asleep, then I heard it... BEEP.... 1 minute later BEEP. Why in the hell do smoke detector batteries ALWAYS go out b/w the hours of midnight and 3 a.m.? So, I had to get up around 1 and change the battery. Two hours later I fell asleep. Two hours later I was awake for work. Sucks huh?

Okay, I have rambled enough and who knows if you actually got through this whole post !!!

Oh, T I need some more medicine !!! I am in pain right now girlie...guess I will run out to Walgreens.