scratches and castles and throw up... oh my!

So once again I havent blogged in forever.. I never could keep up with a diary when I was little and with a journal as I got into Young Womens at church and were told often to write in a journal.. yeah, I would write in it for 2 days and then be done for the year. :p
I guess even though Im online nonstop, this is no different. Im just no good at the blog thing.

anyways..

Susan has had to listen to my stories lately and she told me I should be blogging about a couple things the last couple of weeks.. so here they are.

SCRATCHES

so I get a call from the school.. Trace's 2nd grade teacher called me and so I figured he must be sick. I hate getting the sick calls from school.. I swear theyre fine when I send them to school! so anyways.. she says.. I have Trace here and we have an issue. sigh.

sooo I say ok what happened..

she goes on to say that at recess or at lunch.. i dont know.. that Trace had told a girl that he would pay her if she would scratch him.. big pause.. well, my brain immediately thinks oh my gosh.. scratch him WHERE???? ackkkk he is a boy after all... I start to panic and sweat and my heart is racing.. all in a matter of seconds before she continues her sentence..
so Trace told a girl he would pay her to scratch him on the arm.
umm ok.. so she did scratch him and another boy and when she did, 2 other boys saw her and decided to push her down and then hit on her.
hmmm

ok I can see how this is bad... poor girl got beat up for picking on my kid..

well, this is a serious issue says the teacher.. and she wants a meeting with all the parents of the kids involved the next week. ummm ok let me know when..

then she asks if I want to talk to him.. well of course I say yes because if not what kind of parent will she think I am?? but at the same time.. what the heck am I going to say to him on the phone???? he gets on the phone.. i ask him if he even has money to be making deals with?? he says yes in his wallet.. but its at home..
ok well we will disuss this when you get home.

SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

OK so I was on base and doing errands and just as I was leaving the gate, my cell rings.. its the school.. they have Trace there- he didnt get on the bus to go home and needs to be picked up.. huh.ok. Ill make a uturn and go get him.
I get off base, do a uturn, get back on base and my phone beeps.. apparently home had called me while i was talking to the school. so i call home and am told that trace didnt get home. yes, i know.. but kid at home had also called dad. ok thanks. so i call robert and he says yeah, i was told i needed to come get him. i tell him im on my way to get him- i have it taken care of.

get to the school.. kid is not in the office like they told me he was. Im told hes in the class with the teacher.. go down the hall.. teacher is in the hall talking to other teachers.. sees me and we go into the classroom where trace is sitting at his table all alone.. looking so very sad..

we sit. teacher tells me she thinks what happened was that everyday she asks the kid a question on his way to the line to leave. well today she told him she wasnt asking him a question. so they all get in line and go out to the bus area to leave. she goes back into the building and trace is still sitting there. he misunderstood and thought since he didnt get asked a question, he couldnt line up and leave. :(

so since im there.. we have THE conference. she tells me the whole story again.. we ask him a bunch of questions.. she proceeds to tell me that she has told him that he needs to EARN the money from his parents to pay the girl because she did do her part afterall.. then i find out he promised her FOUR DOLLARS! heck kid.. what were you thinking>!?!? i was thinking maybe he promised her a quarter or something. sheesh.

ok fine. whatever. he has to bring a list to the teacher by friday of that week of ways he will earn money. then when he brings the money in to the girl, the girl will have to find a way to do something good with it for the class.. this will become a CLASS learning project.
whatever.
get home, have the boy make a list..

1. sell toys
2. play music
3. chores
4. i dont remember his other one

I ask him how he is going to play music for money? he says.. his harmonica.. ummm yeah but HOW are you going to make money?
he is going to sit outside and play his harmonica and people will put money in the pot for him.
ummm no trace.. i dont think that will work.


oh and much later when Im telling his dad about all of this.. he then informs us that he shouldnt have to pay anyways because the girl didnt do her part of the deal.. umm she scratched you both didnt she? yeah but the real deal was that if she scratched them and they said it hurt then he would pay her. they never said it hurt. ok trace but you could have said this in front of the teacher! i cant tell her this 2 days later and not have it look like im trying to come up with some lame excuse for the kid. good grief.


he takes the note in.. nothing else is said by the teacher. he hasnt EARNED the money at home and so far, its been forgotten. :p

CASTLES AND THROW UP

I suggest you dont read this part if you have a weak stomach.. though most MOMS that I know could handle it. LOL

so we found out a couple weeks ago that we have to leave THIS SUMMER instead of next year like planned. SO NOT HAPPY about this!

So because of this, we have to do and see LOTS before then. not an easy task with 8 people and a limited budget and trying to do move stuff too. but whatever.
so on Saturday we decide we have to go somewhere. anywhere.

so we drive a couple hours away to Burg Eltz. a pretty castle.. from the outside. i have no idea what the inside is like. but robert and the kids said it was nice.




we get there and of course everyone is hungry.. it was lunchtime. so i say well lets go in and do the tour and then get lunch in the little snack place.. go and buy the family ticket to do the tour. sit and wait for the english tour..20 minutes or so.. trent says he has a headache. ok once we eat, youll be ok.. says mom.
so we go into the first room.. weapons on the walls.. get the spiel about it and trent is leaning on me telling me he doesnt feel good.. ok trent just get through this tour and youll be ok..
time to move to the next room.. trent says im going to be sick.. i tell robert that trents going to be sick so i will go back out with him and he should take the rest of them through the castle. he says no we'll all leave. ummmm no i didnt pay all that money to sit outside with everyone. then we will all do the tour. sureeeee.
so everyone moves into the next room, me and trent are last.. he is going to throw up. i go to the big door and cant figure out how to open it. the tour guide comes back to close the door and i say can we get out hes going to be sick? so he uses the KEY and lets us out. where trent throws up into the trashcan right by the door.



next tour goes in while we stand there and trent is puking into the trash.

he finishes. really, it wasnt much because he didnt eat breakfast that morning. which i find out at that point in time. i figure hes carsick because of the long drive and windy roads.
so i take him back and ask how long the tour is.. 40-45 minutes. ughhh
so we go and get some water and french fries and sit to eat and wait.
he drinks the water.. eats a couple fries.. i eat some fries..
we then go check out the souveniers. i see what i want to buy before we leave.
we go back to the courtyard and sit just as they come out of the tour! yay!
so then we all go into the 2nd part of the tour- the treasure rooms. get through that and back out.
everyone is starving. we go to the food place again.
seating is like this..
outside picnic tables. all the other tables full of people.
its tyler, me, tanner, trent on one side
travis, robert, abby, trace on the other side.

abby and trace got fries and soda
tanner got currywurst, fries and soda
robert and tyler and travis got wurst of sorts and fries and drinks- doesnt matter for this story.

we are sitting.. talking.. eating..
i hear tanner say TRENT! i look up as trent throws up ALL OVER THE TABLE.
yep.
everyone is staring.
trent is crying
robert is hissing that he could have gone to a trashcan
im telling him to calm down and hush.
giving him napkins.
robert whisks him off to the bathroom.
i start cleaning off the table.the best i can with napkins.
really, it was just water and fries.
get it cleaned the best i can.
robert comes back with trent.

ummm

tanners food has throw up in it.
abbys fries have throw up on them
2 sodas have throw up on them

ugh

waste of more money

throw food away
tanner doesnt want anymore

others finish. we go to the souvenier shop.
walk back up the HUGE hill to the car.

leave. trent throws up in a bag in the car.
stop at spangdahlem- get kids dinner- leave there.

trent throws up in a bag on the way home.

get home. done with my day.

he got sick all the next day too.. and never did eat anything.
finally better sunday night and monday was fine for school.

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Ive been selling stuff on a yard sale site.. getting rid of some weight in this house. this is the part of moving i dont like. getting ready. i dont know how we collect so much junk everyplace we go. hmm see my last post.. im a collector.
robert is in his normal pinging before a move mode already.
we cant do a whole lot without the official orders in hand. so we cant schedule shipments and things and without those dates its hard to plan anything else.
its all a huge pain.

i dont want to go yet. i need another year here. i just got a good friend here and now i have to leave? whats the logic there? whats the bigger plan here??? someone fill me in please.

i was supposed to have surgery in May.. i had it all figured out.. but now it might not be approved because we wont be here 6 more months. ill know more this week sometime. if it is approved though, ill be happy but also wondering how im going to manage major surgery and a move and traveling all at once?? if it isnt approved then i have to hope they will do it in the states. not as easy a process as it is here.

we cant find anything to rent in TX online and base housing isnt big enough for us.looks like we might be buying our first house. that freaks me out. i love the idea of being able to do whatever i want to MY house.. but i dont know about having to take care of a house and pay for a house and deal with house stuff. and then theres the loans and approvals and stuff. im scared of getting denied. and getting ripped off. and getting a bad house. eeek

travis leaves in 3 weeks. i am wondering how it will effect me when he goes. i think im in denial about him going and about us moving and who knows what all else.


ok this is a major long post. should make up a little for my lack of posts right?
and i dont have a chance of sliding to the bottom of Susans blog list and being called out on her blog LOL

oh yeah.. the pic of the castle.. looks foggy.. yeah, all our pics from the castle do. come to find out the lens was dirty. didnt figure this out until we got home. dont plan on going back to that castle. stuck with fuzzy pics i guess.

whatever.