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May 22 Excuses! Excuses! Excuses!Why have I been so bad lately at blogging and emailing? Here's what I came up with...
1) Nothing to write about (Sometimes it's pretty boring here and I'd hate to put everyone else to sleep.
2) Beautiful weather... Warm, sunny, gorgeous outside... who wants to be stuck inside...
3) Moments of depression- where I don't feel like doing much of anything
4) Stupid computer!!! I can't even tell you how many times I'd go on to someones website to leave a comment and had the stupid computer freeze up on me. I must have tried at least a dozen times on oldfarmboy's blogs and never could get through.
5) all the back to school stuff going on. (Barbecues, helping in the classrooms, field trips, finals, concerts, special trips to the school for this and that...)
6) Laziness
7) Games, Games and more games!! We are the most game playing family ever I think. It doesn't matter if it's card games like Rook, board games like Monopoly, videogames, computer games, dice games, Dominoes, physical games etc... The Thomas family plays games..... DAILY! So, being part of that family means that if I do come inside and have time to blog or email, chances are I'm going to pull up the computer games I've become addicted to and play that first! I'm considering attending "game-aholics" anonymous so I can admit I have a problem.
8) Kid distractions. Jen getting home from college, Marie crashing the car....again (I'll talk about that in my next blog. At least now I do have something to talk about) Jen getting a new job, Marie looking for a job.
9) Church obligations-
10) New computer (After my stupid computer {4} caused me so much grief and after I prodded and hinted at my husband for several weeks, he bought me my own laptop. YEA!!!! I'm back in business. However with the new computer I suddenly had 100's of files to transfer and things to set up etc... I'm still not finished but it's almost as much fun as playing games. Yes I did get some good games on my computer too, but that's not the point. I couldn't electronically transfer everything because they're different versions and not compatible. Basically I'm also a computer retard so things take me twice as long as it would for computer literate people.)
There they are. My lousy excuses for being such a slug in cyberspace. Now that I'm armed with my new laptop (that hopefully won't freeze on me) I can once again blog and email and surf other webspaces without interru..."What? A new game on Big fish called Peggle Deluxe???? Wooo Hoooo!!"
May 04 sluffing school..... with permissionMy 15 year old son Michael approached me yesterday and asked if he could skip out of school today. I ask the obvious question, "Why?" He gets this goofy look on his face and says that he wants to go to the theatre and watch Spiderman 3. Jennifer, my 18 year old daughter who's home from college, is standing behind him grinning. I find out that they've been plotting and planning this for some time. My initial response is NO. Of course you can't skip school to go to a movie. It's not like they can't go in the evening or on the weekend. They present their case and explain why missing those classes aren't important because he won't be missing anything important and he has the homework from his teachers already etc... Knowing full well that their Dad will say no, I tell them that he can go if it's alright with their Dad.
I think about it a little over the next few hours and I started to see things differently. The biggest question I ask myself is how many teenage boys ask their parents permission to bend the rules? Michael is not the typical teenager. He excels in school as a Freshman and takes pretty intense classes such as Latin and Geometry. He's had a 4.0 for as long as I can remember and is extremely self motivated and responsible when it comes to completing his assignments. His favorite music is classical. He asks all the girls to dance at the church dances and is nice to everyone. I've never heard him swear or even say anything crude. What is so terrible about missing out of a few class periods so he can go to the movies with his sister?
I'd already told him to ask his Dad and I couldn't very well go back on that. I knew he'd need some coaching. "Michael, when you talk to Dad you might mention your good grades and how you've arranged to do all your homework from your teachers. You might also remind Dad about when he was a teenager and how he skipped out of school numerous times." (His Dad was quite the character in High School, but that is for another blog....) Michael took my advice and talked with his Dad when he got home from work. It worked enough to get him to say that it was up to his Mom. The ball was in my court again. Reluctantly I gave my permission for Michael to sluff school and go to the movies with his sister. To do my best at sounding like a responsible parent I added, "Just make sure you get all your schoolwork done!" This was more for my benefit than it was for his. I knew he'd get it done and I wouldn't be the one nagging him to do it.
They got back from the movie a few minutes ago and told me that the movie was really not very good. They did have fun doing some brother/sister things together and taking the day off from school. I think there's a good life lesson there. It's good to take the day off once in a while just to enjoy life and have fun. If my kids continue to be responsible and do well in school I'd let them do it again, without hesitation!
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