Today is the day that Category 1, Hurricane Isaac, hit land around the New Orleans area. Natural disasters always seem so awful maybe because they cannot be prevented. You just sort of have to brace yourself and pray.
Well, my kids awoke this morning on the wrong side of the bed. So far, all of our mornings have been very smooth and easy while getting ready for school, eating breakfast, making lunches, and getting to the school bus on time. Maybe it started off on the wrong foot because last night we didn't make them put their breakfast and lunch selections in the "Breakfast/lunch/snack notebook". Because there have been many a World War III over what they FEEL (insert whiny voice) like eating for breakfast, lunch, etc, we now make them choose it the night before. They cannot change their mind the next day. THIS HAS WORKED EXTREMELY WELL!!! No knock down, dragouts!!!
Last night I figured since I was off today I would just let them decide in the morning. What a disaster!!! I won't go into detail, but it was rough...
Sarah B and Will: both of you came home with a warning today. Both of you were talking while the teacher was talking. I wanted to document this because even these things are a memory. Your daddy and I truly believed both of you when you said that you were asking a question about your school work to your neighbor, but the instructions from the teacher were to be quiet (YIKES!!!). Neither one of you lied about it; you both came running in the door telling me you received a warning. You did not get in trouble; we just talked about it. We thanked them for telling the truth. They said they remembered that they would get in "double trouble" if they lie. We also cautioned you that if we see this problem again in the near future, we would have to take a different route of consequence (i.e. grounding, etc). :/
It's been a fine afternoon...relatively uneventful. We are all headed to church :)
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