Day 1 – Not Mom of the Year…but trying

Day starts off with Samson complaining about not getting to go to Extended Day after school anymore.  I try to explain to him that now he can ride the bus home and gets to spend more time with me and Lukie.  That does not work, so I try to explain the economics of how it makes no sense for me to pay $400+ for him to hang out at school after school when I am at home.  Still no luck.  Finally I explain we can go to the pool after school and he can have friends over.  This seems to work….a little.

 

Once Samson on bus and only Lukie and I at home, I decided to go get my VA drivers license.  Used technology that I usually fight but everyone tells me is great to check online and note that my local DMV has a 36 minute wait.  Not acceptable for DMV visit with Lukie in tow, but what do I see…a DMV only 3 minutes further away with only a 7 minute wait.  We hop in the car (without my normal mommy supplies of toys and snacks because Lukie can hold off for 7 minutes) and rush to the DMV.  We return 3 hours later with an unhappy Lukie and slightly frazzled Mommy who is the proud new owner of a VA license (let the taxing begin). 

Wanted to do something fun to make up for the time Lukie had to sit waiting at DMV, so pulled out my latest issue of Parenting Magazine that talks about making a small sand play tub out of a plastic container.   Just big enough to entertain child, not big enough to cause major mess or become a cat box in our back yard for neighborhood cats.  Whoever printed this idea in the magazine obviously did not beta test it on boys.  The picture shows a child playing nicely in the sand.  I turned my head for a couple of minutes and Lukie had turned the container into a swimming pool for his dinosaurs and my driveway into “Mt. Fuji” as he called it.  I guess that is why they sell sand and water tables.  The two just obviously go together. 

As we were having fun with the water, I mean sandbox, I kept checking my watch to ensure we picked up Samson from the bus stop at 4:10.  Then I noticed a bus go by.  Couldn’t be Samson’s bus it is only 3:50.  Then I saw the other kids from Samson’s bus drive by.  Yes, first day riding home on the bus when I have told him he can’t go to extended day and I was late (OK completely missed) picking him up at the bus stop.  Fortunately a neighbor grabbed him and Samson seemed to not care.  Bus driving must think I’m an idiot.

Ended the day with a nice walk around the block while Samson and Doug were at T-ball.  It was so nice I urged Lukie to go another few blocks and was rewarded by poop in his pants, down his legs and all over the bathroom floor when we finally got home.  He didn’t tell me he had to go, but first thing he proudly told Samson and Doug when they got home was that he pooped himself.