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One thing after another

This week has been so frustrating one thing after another.  Now it is 7:30 on a Friday night and I wish I was with my mom's group who is currently watching "Breakfast of Tiffany's" But instead I am sitting in a quiet house while Lee is off skiing with the older kids.  Ski Night at the school was tonight and it made more sense for Lee to go because well...he actually skis.  Lee has text me a few times and it didn't go quite as planned.  Two of the parents asked if Lee could "keep an eye" on their kids.  Well Lee said he feels like he is babysitting them.  I told him that wasn't the impression I got from the parents. 

Work went better today and lots of stuff was explained to me and the other social worker said I was doing just fine.  Now that I know what I am doing.

So one of the same parents who asked that we keep an eye on their daughter up at ski night them proceeded to tell me that her husband wanted to have a chat with Jake because Jake called their daughter fat.  Which he admitted to.  But the part of the story that was left out is that this girl is refusing to allow Jake to get off the bus and is calling Jake names as well.  So we gave some consequences but in the end I wish we would have slept on it because I feel the consequence was too much.   And there is no way I am going to allow this guy to have any chat with my 11 year old son.  No way No how!

I (okay mostly Victoria) made Luke a rainbow cake (fat free and sugar free).  The kids loves it I thought it was okay but it fell apart.  So much so I couldn't frost it so the kids just put the frosting on the plate and ate it with the cake.

Another frustration is I can rarely find a sub for primary.  I asked two weeks ago for the counselor to give me some names.  which she didn't.  I finally got a list and either people can't or they are not responding. 

I am looking forward to the weekend although I work Sunday and a half day Monday.  

I am trying not to get overwhelmed with all of the little stuff and that is mostly what this is.  We need to find a financial planner because both Lee and I have have 401k's that need to be rolled over into something else that is acutely making money.



I decided I would give my self 30 minutes to be unproductive and then I would clean.  30 minutes is (more then) over and I need to clean.

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