Drugged is definitely better than pain at this point for your mom, Suzi. Continued ~ma to her.
I am done with school work for the night. Teacup Guy is not home yet. Best case scenario is that he is home in a half hour. I should probably continue doing some of the organizing I started with mom earlier. I have become crazily jumpy to the sounds of the upstairs neighbors. I got very used to feeling like I was in a house instead of an apartment, and I can't get used to the sounds of furniture being moved and doors opening and closing.
Baby! Pictures! Ellie pictures, too!
Yep. I think that's all I've got. I just got home from work. Back to School Night kills me ded. 14 hours is TOO LONG to be at school.
14 hours is TOO LONG to be at school.
WORD. Although for us it was only 12, and really we could have had a couple hours off. Did your parents actually show up? And by "your parents," of course, I don't actually mean YOUR parents.
Probably about half of them did. You?
Sigh. I'm sorry, sweetie. You're working in a school without a lot of parental support, from what I've gathered.
Kristin, where is your tag from? I may need it as a mantra.
Not entirely -- I mean, the parents care a lot. But they also work a lot, and they rely on their kids to keep them informed, and I think in some cases the kids just didn't tell the parents. And a lot of the parents rely on the kids to translate -- one girl did bring her mother, and proceeded to give me attitude during Back to School Night, in front of her mother, because she knew perfectly well her mother wouldn't understand. She's on my list of people to ask our parent liaison to call, but the list is so long... I've been to a bunch of parent conferences, and I have one tomorrow (the second in three weeks about the same girl, and unlikely to be much more help this time than the last), and some of them involve parents who are ready and willing to send their children to Mexico or Guatemala to live with relatives and go to REALLY strict schools if they don't behave. It's just so hard for the kids to fight the peer culture of the school, which is that goofing off and giving attitude is the normal thing to do.
Um... right. What was the question again?
