Kids are cruel

It took threats but I finally got Addie to tell me what was wrong when I noticed her sad face as I picked her up from school. She had a bad day at school. The kids in her class we picking on her and she feels sometimes like no one likes her. For a mom this is absolutely the worst thing to deal with. Its so hard because you have no control over what happens to them at school. Sure you can home school. But they don't get normal interactions with other kids in their peer group. And when you grow up and get a real job you have to interact with your co workers/peers. School helps set you up for the real world. If you think kids can be cruel..well so can adults! Even if you home school with a group of moms and they do field trips with other home schooled kids the enviornment is too sheltered. You can't protect your kids from everything. And the more you try to protect them the more you cripple them. Its still hard to know they are having a hard time making friends. And there is no real easy answer. If you talk to the teacher then kids tease when the teacher isn't looking or hate your kid more for telling on them. I don't have all the answers. I am not pretending I have this all figured out. I know I had a hard time in middle school and maybe that's why it hurts so much for me to see her going through this. But I do feel that kids who go through these growing pains are stronger and become more compassionate adults. Have we not all run into the old prom queen/head cheerleader from highschool who still thinks life is a popularity contest? Its sad!! I have no doubt she will grow up and be Beautiful,Smart,Strong and all this drama will have made her better. Yet all I wanted to do is keep her home from school and protect her. I knew that I couldn't do that so I came up with a game plan. I asked her brothers and sister to write 5 things they like about her on paper. Then I asked her grandparents, aunts, and uncle to text her i-pod with their thoughts about her. After dinner I told her to read them. It made her day! She was so happy and didn't realize we all thought so highly of her. I cried and hugged her telling her how sorry I was that she felt no one liked her. But assured her she was a likable girl. Bought her an Oreo blizzard and prayed she would have a better week. I am keeping the letters in a book so when kids are being mean at school she can read them again. I have no choice but to work on her self esteem and confidence at home. Whatever it takes. Cause I bet middle school is going to much harder.

Wrestle

Any day any time. All Dallin has to do is look at Derek and the next thing you know they are on each other ready to wrestle.

Littlest Pet Shops - I am so over it already

Barbies-NO Baby Dolls-No Disney Princess-NO For some reason my girls (olivia especially) latched onto Littlest Pet Shops, and by "latched on" I mean obsess about them every waking second of their lives. Any way. They love watching you tube videos of other kids that have made little videos playing with these pet shops or making furniture for them. Olivia recently showed me these beds a girl had made for them out of card board and fabric and wanted so badly to make them herself. So in a vain attempt to convince Andrew I am worth all the money I blow at Starbucks and Chuys I bought some crafty stuff and played a fun loving adoring mother for half a Sat afternoon. And here is the end result. Cute beds. Girls are happy. I have sore fingers and we will throw them away when they fall apart in about 4-5 days. I spent more money to "make" wobbly and crappy card board beds than it would cost to just buy plastic beds already made for a doll house. That is the world of cute crafting in a nutshell. Sorry if this post doesn't make you happy.