What a Week!

My boys are giving me gray hairs! I don't know why I am about to write about this other than my blog is like my journal and embarassing as it is, it's a good story.

So Monday Garrett and I were eating lunch when Garrett's cell phone rang and it was Kody's school telling us that we needed to come pick him up. Oh great, what happened was going through my mind. All the bad things running through my head and it turned out that Kody was being "suspended" for the afternoon for biting another little boy in the head. WHAT? I had to ask twice to make sure they said biting and not hiting. Kody is not a biter and is usually not agressive unless really provoked. So the story is that he and another little boy were racing to the slide and Kody wanted to be first, he wasn't, got frustrated (yes he used that word) and bit his friend on the head. Not only did he bite a boy, but then he lied about it trying to get out of trouble. Well that came back to bite him in the butt cause he got in even more trouble. Aaahhh! Where did I go wrong?! I taught him better than this, didn't I.

So he was sent home and had to write apology letters and then verbally apologize to the little boy the next day. He is only in Kindergarten and already has a suspension on his record. I just pray that this is not a foreshadowing of things to come or I am going to just ship him off to his grandparents who think that this incident is just hilarious! He thought he was off scott free and could just come home and play all afternoon, but wrong we put him to work doing chores and I think he will think twice about being sent home from school early again. He was so scared that his friend wouldn't want to be his friend anymore, so we talked about how we treat our friends and so far I think that he actually listened. All in all I think that this was a great learning experience for him and he agrees that it is much better to make good choices.

So then the next day we are at Wal-Mart and Jacob falls out of the cart and has a huge goose egg on his head. It scared me to death. He was fussing really bad with the seat belt on cause it was too tight, so I unbuckled it. He usually sits very still. I turned to talk to Garrett and in 2 seconds he was on the ground. I felt like the most terrible mom in the world. He was such a brave boy and only cried for a couple minutes. I think it scared him more than it hurt, but looking at his head you wouldn't thinks so. So I learned that tight or not the belt in the cart will stay on from now on.

So my boys are being boys! Bumps, bruises and fighting for their place on the playground. I can laugh about everything now, but there was a point that I was feeling like a failure. Being a mom is tough. I know that this is just the beginning and pray that I will have the strength to survive what is yet to come.