5.11.2004

Wow, what a new look! This is alright. :) I don't have much time right now, I have to leave in about 30 minutes to go pick up the kids from school. They have a dentist appointment so they get to leave early today.

I felt so awful for Hunter yesterday. His school does the Accelerated Reader program each year. It's not mandatory, so it really becomes the student's responsibility to read books and test over them and accumulate points. I didn't think Hunter would do it much this year because he's just not a big reader. Well, at the end of every school year, those kids that have got a certain amount of points, like 30 I think, get to go on a picnic at the local park for the day. Hunter told me like two weeks ago that he had enough points, that his teacher had told him he had enough to go. The picnic was yesterday, and when I went up to the park to take him some water and stuff, he wasn't there. I thought about going to check on him to make sure he was okay, but I didn't. I wish I had now, because he was VERY upset. Not only that, but he and one other boy were the only ones left in their classroom all.day.long. He was crying when he got in the car yesterday, and I just felt terrible. He said his teacher had made a mistake and he only had 17 points. :/ That kind of irritated me too, because he had about two weeks before the picnic that he could have been trying to get more points, but he thought he had enough. So I thought that was crappy. Next year I'm going to keep on him to do at least two books per week through the whole year so he'll be able to go. I hated for this to happen to him. :/

Mackenzie had a ball game last night, but about 5 minutes before it was supposed to start, it rained like, as Darrell says, a cow pissing on a flat rock. (haha!) So we basically went to the park to sit under the bleachers while it rained, then we went home. I could have cooked supper if I had known that. Tonight she has a game, but it doesn't start until 6:30. I hate this time slot, the games aren't over until around 8 or so. We'll have to eat supper before we go, but she'll have to wait for a bath until we get back, for obvious reasons. Depending on when we get back from the dentist, we may just have take-out tonight. I hope it doesn't get rained out tonight, we've got chances of those 'hit or miss' summer showers all week.

Well, I'll write more later. I've got to get a few last minute things done before I leave. And now a message from Shelby:
666 --- Ha! My little demon child.

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