Good afternoon! It is a
beautiful day outside and there is a rant inside me waiting to come out but I
want to tell you about yesterday first.
Bethany Price took me to Agawam
to pick up the bug. We had a nice drive down but when I picked Laura’s GPS up
out of the door bucket (or whatever you call the thing at the bottom of the
door where you put stuff) the adapter for it came off only I didn’t realize it
had come off, I thought it had been left at home. Yikes! So I used my phone which
I don’t like to do since Verizon took Navigator off (I still have Verizon
Navigator but it costs money to use more than the simple directions). Anyway, I
used my phone because I wanted to get there. But, we missed the exit off of 90
so we took the next one and while we were taking the long route, my battery was
getting very low so I kept turning Navigation off to save the battery. We
finally got there and it only took half an hour longer than it should have and
I got to drive the bug home.
I said I might be in a Def
Leppard mood and I was. Journey was in and definitely was not what I wanted to
listen to. I put in Vault and it hit the spot, so to speak. More about that on
my Daniel blog as soon as I get to it after this. I wasn’t able to speed
because I kept getting stuck behind vehicles that were only going the speed
limit. That might have been a blessing in disguise, I don’t know. I do know that
on 202, there was a car pulled over with a police officer going through the car
and another standing with the occupants of it. A few miles north, another law
enforcement vehicle was on its way in that direction. I don’t know if it was
going to that particular spot, but it could have been.
The afternoon was fairly
uneventful. Joanna was on my lap top pretty much all day because she had a ton
of math to do. She worked all day Friday and all day Saturday and so Monday she
had to get caught up. I was kind of going through withdrawals because I was
only able to check my email and Facebook twice; once in the morning and once
before I went to bed. That really is okay; I think we’re far too dependent upon
electronics.
There was a bit of excitement,
if you can call it exciting. Seth told me that he got in trouble because Logan
(the boy next door) told someone that he, Seth, flipped him, Logan, off. Not
bloody likely. What I found out is that Logan, who is a 6th grader,
doesn’t sit in the back of the bus like most 6th graders. Seth is in
4th grade. Cedric told me that Seth and Logan often sit together and
Seth plays with Logan’s iPad. Joseph told me that Seth did NOT flip Logan off.
I told Seth that I was going to call the principal today and talk to her
because I’m sick of the whole bus thing.
I called. I found out that Logan’s
father reported to the police Friday that Logan has been repeatedly bullied, kicked,
hit and bit, by children who live on the same street. I told her that Seth has
never done any of those things but Cedric did bite him once. He did. I’m not
going to lie. I wish I’d have been doing this blog when it happened about three
years ago but I wasn’t and I may or may not have written about it in my
journal. After that point, the boys were not allowed to go to Logan’s and Logan
is not allowed here. After that point, I collected all of the toys that Logan
had brought over here and left and returned them to his grandparents’ home.
This included a bicycle that Logan had left over here and then accused Cedric
of stealing it. I told her that Logan’s grandfather came over here while I was
gone with Cedric at soccer practice and yelled at Amena Friday and perhaps I
should call the police and report that. I know what the problem was with that—Seth
took to school a Halo MegaBlok figure (that he was not supposed to take to
school) and Logan saw it and said it was his. According to what Logan said,
Seth was taunting Logan saying that Seth had a bunch of Logan’s toys and that
he’d been playing with them. Maybe Seth did taunt him. Logan is an easy kid to
bully. I’m sorry to say that, but it is true. When he was told by Paul or
myself to go home because the boys needed to eat, he would say, “I’ll wait.” We
often had to tell him multiple times to go home and we often still saw him
wandering around in the yard while we were sitting at the table eating.
It seems that Seth has been in
trouble on the bus before and this is his last warning. If anything happens
again, he will be on a three-day bus suspension. I’m thinking about putting him
on one myself. I do not want him near Logan. I do not want Logan near him. I do
not want any of my boys near Logan or Logan near any of my boys. I do not want
any angry grandparents coming over here yelling at my 13-year-old daughter. I
do not want to hear about any police reports that have to do with things that
happened three years ago. And for goodness sake, how is my 4th-grade
child successfully bullying a 6th-grader to such a degree that it
has to be taken to the police. Seriously?
I will end that for now. You
probably don’t want to hear my opinions about bullying right now anyway.
Currently, it is quiet. The
washing machine and dryer have stopped so all I hear are a couple of dogs
snoring and the refrigerator that just went on and the clock ticking. And my
fingers hitting the keys of the keyboard. Which I have to admit I am probably
overdoing because my blood is still boiling a bit from the whole Logan issue.
If I sit quietly, I can also hear the wind in the leaves outside and that is a
nice thing. It reminds me that autumn is here and it is beautiful outside and
such a lovely day should not be sullied by unpleasant things.
With that, I hope the rest of
your day is absolutely spectacular!
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