Monday, September 7, 2015

School Days

Good evening! Hope everyone enjoyed their holiday weekend. It's been quite busy around here. Mia started her very first day of 4K (or K-4 however you wanna go) last Tuesday. It was the longest she's gone, so I was hoping it went well. It did. Mostly. She told me everything she did, she loves word association exercises and "bought" her own hot lunch. Buying lunch at school won't be an every day occurrence for her (let's face it, school isn't cheap) but if it's something I know she'll wanna eat, then she can. Her friends from last year apparently didn't want to play with her during recess, and since it was so very hot out, she told me she just hung out in the shade on the playground. Wednesday, she had a much better report. She had music class, played with friends and even met a boy during recess. She didn't catch his name, but told what hers was. They played with chalk and drew bubbles on the playground. It made me so happy that she was able to play with a boy and not make a big deal that he's a boy and she prefers to play with girls. She's broadening her friend circle and that's awesome. She needs to work on writing her name out with some lower-case letters for the "i" and "a". She's been writing upper case for a while, and I know she can nail the lower case "i" but is struggling a bit with the "a". She gets quite hard on herself at times, and it's frustrating for her, but we keep reminding her that you will improve with practice.

While she was at school, I cut grass all morning in the 90 degree heat. It was great to get it done so I didn't have to waste a Saturday cutting all morning. After I picked her up, we spent the rest of the day together. Friday, Mia and I were off. My parents are in Tahoe for the weekend, so I had to take care of the cat for the day. We spent the morning with her friend Olivia at the Zoo. I swear, those two act like their sisters. They argue, play and complain like total siblings. Mostly, we had a good time and it was nice that she got to spend the day with her buddy. We went over to feed my former-cat from back home and had a bit of an issue. When I was locking the doors, Mia wandered upstairs to say a quick "bye" and what I heard, was the loudest scream. I assume, she startled Misty and when she came down the hall way, blood and tears were running down her face. Misty attacked her. After tending to my traumatized kid, I noticed 3 punctures to her face, one by her ear and later I saw she got her on the forearm. I assume the cat grabbed her by the side of the face with one paw and scratched her with the other. I felt absolutely horrible for Mia. She just couldn't stop crying. She wanted out of the house so badly. I bandaged her up and we got out of there. In the middle of her total breakdown, she remembered she had class picture day coming up and was worried she wouldn't heal before then. My poor Mia...She wanted nothing to do with Marie when we got home.

Saturday, we went to the farmer's market with my in laws. Mia was feeling better and took off some of the bandages. They still hurt but she wanted them to heal faster. We ate at this little art cafe in Downtown Waukesha. We've seen the bright colored house for many years and never went there. The food was pretty good. Later we went with them to Colders and tagged along as they looked for a couch. Mia wanted to test every one of them.

Sunday I worked. Mia went to the pool with Jill. Today, we did some cleaning and I worked again. They went to a BBQ with my in laws. I came home tonight and every one's asleep. Good. The kid needs to get some rest before school tomorrow. Going to try to finish this dog portrait in the next few days. Hoping Jill and I can go out for dinner Saturday. Chelsea was off for the weekend for International duties so I'm quite looking forward to this weekend's game :)

That's all for now. Thanks for reading!

2 comments:

  1. Mike, your post reminds me about the many roles that parents have to play; from caregiver to spiritual provider to medic to motivational speaker, and on and on. So glad you listen to Mia so closely about school.

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  2. thanks! :) Always appreciate it :)

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