Well, the boys and I made it through day 1 without the Mister. \u00c2\u00a0Ty had a horrible headache, so Jagger gave me a call at the office to check if there was something to help ease the pain. I walked him through where to find the children’s Advil and how to find the correct dosage. Jagger told me the amount for Ty’s weight (3 Tbls) and I said 2 Tbls would be fine. After we got off the phone Jagger texted me a photo of the Advil in the medicine cup to make sure we were on the same page. The dosage was indeed correct….smart kid. Thirty minutes or so later the boys called to let me know Ty was feeling much better.<\/p>\n
The boys called again at 11:30 to ask if I would order Chinese delivery. Early in the morning I made lunches for them in anticipation for this exact call…smart mommy. In all honesty, I did ask that they call me back after they ate if they were still starving and I would figure something out. I got the call at 1:00p.m and at 1:30p.m. Jagger and Ty were enjoying pork fried rice and pot stickers.<\/p>\n
I was supposed to get out of the office no later than 2:30p.m. but I was still there fixing the good doctor’s computer at 3:27. I just needed to reboot the darn thing twice and then we were up and running. I was in my car at 3:34p.m. and on my way to pick up Jagger for baseball. I sent him a voice text (I can command my smart vehicle to send a text via my smart phone, so I don’t text and drive)letting him know the traffic was terrible as always, and to be ready when I pulled up. To my surprise and utter joy he was ready for baseball when I pulled up. Hurray!!!<\/p>\n
Ty was playing a computer game with 3 or 4 friends including Margo his new friend from Jeff’s and Tina’s party. Ty paused the game to explain to me how he merged all the calls into one central phone….conference calls at 11 years old…smart & savvy kid! I am postponing the implementation of our Summer rule of 1 hour of electronic games per day until the Mister returns. I did implement board games, outside play, and family TV when I get home from work.<\/p>\n
The boys went outside to play with Sloan at about 7p.m. I happened to be walking past our storm door and could not believe my eyes. The boys were standing about 4 feet apart each holding a garden hose spraying water at each other. Jagger was on the neighbor’s side of the street… Ty was on our side of the street…and Sloan was off to the side and a bit center. Sloan’s mom was\u00c2\u00a0taking groceries into her house and she only glanced at the situation visibly rolling her eyes. \u00c2\u00a0I, of course opened the door to micro-manage the situation. I probably should have let them have fun and not micro-managed. \u00c2\u00a0When I opened the door Ty started running up the street with our hose while Jagger proceeded to spray him. Did I mention the water pressure was on full force? Anyway, Ty ran in the house soaking wet and Jagger turned the hose toward Sloan. I yelled, or shrieked, “Do not spray Sloan”! Jagger turned with disappointment encompassing his entire face and replied, “Okay”. I asked him to put the neighbor’s hose away while I in turn spent 5 minutes shutting off our water. I truly had no idea the faucet even turned that much. If Sloan weren’t 4 or 5 years younger than Jagger I would’ve\u00c2\u00a0let them all play, but the younger kiddos always seem to get hurt because the older one doesn’t know how strong or ginormous he is. All the kiddos went back out to play at 8:00pm. no worse for wear.<\/p>\n
Jagger, Ty and I retired to the couch and Jagger told me about baseball practice and how annoyed he was at his coach. Apparently, \u00c2\u00a0his coach asked that the boys bat from the non-dominent side…right to left…left to right. Jagger being the inquisitive kid we all know and love asked, “Why?” In Jagger’s mind he wanted to know what benefit this exercise would be to the team. The coach didn’t take this question well and yelled, “Are you challenging me Jagger?” “Do you not want me to coach?” Jagger said nothing, however…he told me it was all he could do to not say, “Yes!” The other two men(a coach and a former ball player) were rolling their eyes at some of the off the wall exercises the coach had the boys doing and from what I hear this morning….thought Jagger was very logical for asking the question. Anyway, Jagger was annoyed and upset. I did tell him how awesome it was that he could verbalize and express his dismay to me and that I felt really special that he could tell me the stuff bugging him. I also mentioned that Coach Cliff…as annoying as he may be, is a Veteran whom fought for our country at one point in his life deserves our gratitude and respect. As a volunteer coach…as lame as he may be…deserves respect….and as a human being…deserves our respect….even if it is tough to offer. \u00c2\u00a0Jagger didn’t know that Cliff served in Iraq and he felt badly that Cliff mistook Jagger’s question as a challenge. We’ll see where Cliff puts Jagger in the lineup tomorrow.<\/p>\n
On a lighter note…I went to make a deposit this morning at Key Bank and the Branch Manager told me they had to close down \u00c2\u00a0banks yesterday, because of server\/cloud issues. Apparently, the giant server in the sky went down…which took out the cameras and the computers. They had a similar problem on Friday from 1 to 4. Things that make you go…huh???<\/p>\n
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Please excuse any grammatical and\/or spelling errors, as I am writing this post rapidly while multi-tasking at work:-(<\/p>\n
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God Bless<\/p>\n
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Well, the boys and I made it through day 1 without the Mister. \u00c2\u00a0Ty had a horrible headache, so Jagger gave me a call at the office to check if there was something to help ease the pain. I walked … Continue reading