My son is going to a birthday party this weekend. He asked if hubby and I would be staying. When I told him no, his response? "I love it when I get to go to parties without you!" Um...thanks. :-) He also said he still likes when he goes to parties with us.
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Just for fun, I sent a quick email to the mom I was talking about yesterday. A friendly little email, mentioning upcoming kindergarten and young fives, and saying that I had heard that her son had tubes put in his ears recently, and hoped that everything was going well. I asked a question about something that would warrant an answer. No reply as yet. I guess if I never get a reply, then I know that there is indeed a problem. Would I attempt to do anything about it? Probably not. What would I say? "I'm sorry that it bothered you that I let you know that your son touched my son's shirt with a stick he had covered with poo?" I'm not having that conversation. If it prevents my son from being able to get together with this boy outside of school, I am sorry for that, but he sees him plenty at school, and has plenty of other friends whose parents don't have issues with such things that we can invite to get-togethers outside of school.
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Three weeks until kindergarten starts. Unbelievable. The next few weeks will be busy. We have a camping trip coming up. As soon as I find out if my son will be in morning or afternoon kindergarten, I will have to rearrange my work schedule again. There is no point in having a "special day off" while my son is at school, so I will probably either go in late or leave early every day instead so I can either pick him up or drop him off at school. That being said, my hours are showing no signs of being put back to 40. Oh well. I can't say I'm shocked.
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Do you really want to maintain a relationship with people who DON'T want to know that their kid is smearing poop on other kids?
There is enough figurative poo that goes with raising kids, you don't need real poo too! I say let them go.
Tara - No, I don't want to maintain a relationship with those who don't want to know their kids are smearing poo. If I wanted to do that, I'd rather it be a primate family, anyway. ;-)
What I'm hoping, by sending this email, is that I am proven wrong about this woman being in a snit about this. I'd like to get a reply, and then come to the realization that the snubs were all simply a figment of my imagination. If she doesn't reply, then I'm done.
I imagine that it is very frustrating when your child is friends with someone whose parents are not people that you could be friends with. I envision much attempted future steering of my small child's affections.
Wow, either y'all start school late up there or we start really early down here. My cousin's kids started back on August 6th. I'm going to go with the "we start really early down here" option.
P.S. They got out the around the 9th or 10th of June in case anyone is wondering. That seems like a super short Summer break doesn't it?
Jess - We used to get together with the family pretty much monthly, so we were pretty happy with the friendship matchup...Now it has the potential for some awkwardness. Oh well. My son's starting kindergarten and this boy is going to young 5s (a pre-K program), so they won't see each other much during the school year.
SS - I was going to ask when they got out of school. Our schools get out the first week of June also...The kids in your area are missing a whole month of summer! I wonder if they get more breaks during the year or something?
Of course she doesn't want to talk to you--you accused her son of being a dirty poop-smearer!
Kidding. Maybe she's embarrassed? Of course, the quickest way to end the embarrassment would be to resume normal relations, one would think.
Liz - That's what I thought. Obviously I have no ill will toward her or her son, since I've extended an invitation since "the incident". I didn't even blog about it when it happened, for goodness sakes! She, however, seems to have taken offense to the fact that I do feel poop smearing is an event worth mentioning to a parent.
Kindergarten is SUCH a great year! You will love it and your son will love it.
And, I say "poo" to the parents of that kid. They obviously don't believe their wibble schmupkin could possible be guilty of the action reported.
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