For me, stay at home mom is a misnomer. While I do work part time, for the most part, I'm home....kind of. I take kids to doctor appointments, drive Jarrett to school early for band once a week, handle all of Mikey's doctor appointments and prescriptions, run to the store to get things we forgot when we went grocery shopping and pretty much whatever else has to get done, I'm the one doing it.
Last Thursday, I had to get a chain and pull my brother's van out of a ditch with my truck because he was trying to go around a rollback that was picking up a car that had gone off the road and hit a patch of ice and went off the road. The area where we live is a small town...literally. For years there was one traffic light in the center of town. Several years ago we got another light for a grand total of two. Everybody knows everybody. All the town cops have been there for years. I know them personally and call them by first name. I know the chief of police and what kind of chew he takes. So it really was no big surprise when we got back home and my mom said the manager of the store where I work had called to see if we were alright and a girl my brother's girlfriend works with also called to check on us because they had heard what happend. On top of that my mom had been fighting pnemonia since just after Christmas and still was no better so I had been getting ready to get Jarrett off to school and make her a doctor's appointment when Matt had called. Mom got new medicine that seems to be helping this time so hopefully she'll be better soon.
Yesterday Jarrett got off the bus feeling upset so I had to pry out of him what was wrong. A boy that lives down the street from us that Jarrett has played with a few times has been being mean and saying mean things ( i'm not your friend..etc) and yesterday told Jarrett that another boy who Jarrett likes to talk to wasn't his friend or didn't like him or something along those lines. Jarrett told the bus driver and got permission to move away from these boys. His bus driver was one of our neighbors when I was growing up and she understands about his autism and to a certain point I think tries to protect Jarrett. We are the only family that gives her a gift at Christmas. I appreciate the extra help and understanding from her because some people just don't get it and she does.
During vacation we watched Muppets Wizard of Oz alot and it inspired Jarrett to do his own version starring Chowder and all his friends. I'm looking at videos cameras for all the filming I do and hope to invest in an actual video camera soon.
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