The Dangers of Walking to School

No, not cars.

Or strangers.

Or 5th graders on bikes.

The danger I’m talking about is sidewalks paired with running feet in sandals.

Gavin took a nice spill while ‘walking’ Ethan to school & I had a decision to make.  Gavin’s bleeding from his elbow & his knee & screaming his head off.  Ethan’s halfway to school & I don’ t have anything with me telling me what time it is.

What was I to do?  Hustle them all back to the house, quickly clean Gavin up & then rush everyone into the van for a quick drive to school, hoping we make it before the bell?  Force Gavin to walk the rest of the way there & back with a bleeding elbow & knee, not to mention the wailing?  Or, send Ethan on his merry way & take Gavin home & get him cleaned up?

I sent Ethan on his way.

It was really, really hard to watch him walk away from me.

I know our neighborhood is safe.  There’s a crossing guard & a light at the only major intersection.  There’s usually kids & parents walking along the route too.

But I wasn’t with him.

I refrained from calling the school as soon as I got home to make sure Ethan had arrived.  I also didn’t email his teacher.  I felt like I needed to trust Ethan enough to not check up on him.  It was really hard.  I don’t think my heart dislodged itself from my throat until 9am when I knew the school would have noted his absence.  It felt wrong to let him go on his own, but the kid is 8.5 & was 3 blocks from school in a neighborhood full of kids walking to school.  I suppose at some point I need to trust him enough to do things on his own.  I was hoping to wait until he’s in college but I bet it’ll be harder if I start then…

Ethan wasn’t at all traumatized by his solitary walk.  When we picked him up after school the first thing he asked was if he could walk by himself tomorrow.  HA!  I dont think I can handle the stress!

K~

Look What #2 Can Do!

K~

Subtle Changes

I’m back!  You probably won’t notice many changes but I did some tweaking & I feel a little safer.  I thought long & hard about giving up blogging altogether, password protecting the whole thing, starting a new blog with new names, or changing our names on this blog.  None were great options.  For now, I’ve cleaned up a few identifiers & we’ll see if later on I need to take on the horribly laborious task of changing our names in each post (Over 500 of them.  Not my idea of a good way to spend my blogging hours).

I have learned that people will do anything for the craziest reasons & I’m not sure I could have prepared for what precipitated last weeks shut down.  But the damage was done & it gave me a long overdue reason to evaluate what I’m doing.

I have no idea what is going on with the big words.  Laborious?  Precipitated?  I need to stop playing so much Bananagrams…

Anyway.  I’m back & tomorrow’s post will be a big one!

K~

Interrupting This Blog Break To Bring You A Not-So-Important Rant.

I can’t stand Jon & Kate + 8.  I’ve watched it once because my mom really liked the show.

It was awful.  All the bickering & the way the parents treats each other, ick.  Anyway, I watched it once & just shake my head at the phenomena.

I have noticed their faces appearing a lot at the grocery store checkout & then articles keep popping up on MSNBC so I took a look.  Affairs & other garbage.

What got me was Kate complaining about not having friends because of the paparazzi & she’s not sure how to stop that.

I know!  How about stop riding the kiddo gravy train & one of you get a job to support your family?!  That’ll eventually stop the paparazzi.  You know we American’s have a short attention span.  You’ll fade into the oblivion in about a week.

Good Riddance too.

K~

Security Breach

It is necessary for me to take a break from the blog for a bit.  I’ve been informed of another cyber stalker & this one is a little more serious.  I need to take some time to figure out how I want to proceed.

It is always a risk putting anything online & I think very carefully about what I put online.  My previous cyber stalker was merely a busybody looking to stir up trouble, & while it was puzzling to me to waste time for that purpose, this person wasn’t particularly dangerous, just annoying.  I am livid that someone has tried to use my blog as intimidation against another person.  I need to take some time to think about how to blog & protect the people I care about.

Comments are closed on this post.  Any questions or comments can be emailed to threekidchaos@gmail.com

K~

Happy Mother’s Day!

Ethan's Mother's Day Project

K~

Adventures in Spinach

I’ve never liked spinach.  The word spinach conjured up images of creamed spinach from the Kansas elementary school.  That stuff was nasty.  It looked like rotten seaweed swimming in brown mud.  Gross.

Turns out actual spinach is not bad.  On Monday I made Chicken Florentine which has creamed spinach in it.  The kids hated it.  They picked out the chicken but were boycotting the green stuff.  On Tuesday I picked up a bag of Spinach leaves for a salad.  Well Gavin can’t keep his hands off the stuff.  He loves his Leaves.  So much so that everyday for lunch he is requesting Leaves & poppy seed dressing.

Just don’t tell him it’s Spinach.

K~

Dinner Party

This week while making supper, Tova decided to help set the table.  Of course, being 2 she has her own way of doing things.

CHEEEEEESE & tortellini

The boys were very accommodating & I had a chance to read while eating at the grownup table.

Maybe I should ask her to set the table more often…

K~

It’s Tough Being A Woman

My Esther bible study is drawing to a close.  It’s hard to believe there is only one week left.  I’ve really enjoyed the study & many, many times I have felt the study was written just for me.  It’s given me perspective & strength to get through a rather difficult time & it gives me a great start to the week.

One of the last things I need to do is write my list of 3 reasons why it’s tough being a woman.  This is part of the homework for all study participants.

This isn’t mine, but I found it hilarious (& true!)

• It’s tough being a woman wearing panties & trying to live up to the pressure of hiding the fact that I do.

Here are mine.

• It’s tough being a woman trying to find balance.  The kids, the hubby, friends, family, oh & me.  Balance used to be more about finding me time or couple time.  Now the balance I’m searching for is between our source of income, our current family circumstances, & the great unknown.
• It’s tough being a woman who used to be skinny & now carries around a spare tire.  I can’t blame it on baby weight – he’s 5 & I lost it all (& then some) on our adoption trip.  Currently I exercise to eat & then eat some more.  I do so love chocolate…  Then there’s the whole body image thing.  I hate the way my stomach folds over my jeans.  I hate that my stomach lays on the bed beside me.  I hate looking back at my pictures from just a few years ago & wonder what happened…
• It’s tough being a woman with an odd bra size.  For my 3 male readers – you’re blushing

What do you find tough about being a woman?

K~

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