What a day!

One of those days. I have just really had one of those days. I should have known when I got stuck by a train this morning when bringing the wee ones to daycare that it was going to be interesting.

My speech assistant was sick. She caught the stomach bug so it was just me at school. Bless her and hope she is feeling better.

I realized that I was past due on some evaluations and was pushing to get through them when the phone rang and it was daycare. Graeme was having a temper tantrum. I could hear him in the background and then I was told that he was hitting, kicking, scratching and spitting (this was a new one). WHAT!!!! The daycare provider asked me to please come.

I get my group of kids back to their rooms, throw the confidential files in the cabinet and lock it, tell appropriate people and head out the door in 10 minutes. Now, I have a 25 minute drive to daycare.

I race to get on the highway. I see a group of dogs up ahead and am watching to be sure they are moving. I have a car on my left side and another car on the shoulder when one of the dogs stops suddenly in my lane and doesn't move. I slam on the breaks and everything in the car flies forward when I hear the thump and squeal of the dog as my car goes over him. Thank goodness for SUV as the former BMW sat so low it would have creamed the dog.

The dog goes under the middle of the SUV and is knocked around but runs out of the back and takes off. I being me chase after the dog in my car to be sure it is all right. I turn up a drive with MANY posted....Keep off Property signs and decided this is far enough as I watch the dog climb the mountain chasing another dog.

As I am shaking, I U-turn and head back in the direction of daycare. By the time I get to daycare (still shaking over the dog incident), I walk in and Graeme is sweetly wrapped in a blanket and being rocked to sleep by one of the daycare workers. Where is the posessed child that I was called about? Why was there not another call to state that he had pulled himself together?

I discipline Graeme (breaks my heart but come on this behavior has to STOP). He lays on his mat and goes right to sleep. I then ask about his behavior chart (a positive reinforcement chart that we started when he was having tantrums about 3 weeks ago). I was told that they had stopped it because he was doing so well. Now the bells in my head go off and I am dealing with MOMMY GUILT for said discipline. this is the second tantrum this week and come to find out they stopped the chart this week. The chart is going to be reinstated with follow up at home and hopefully, I won't have any more days like this

I did try to explain that I really couldn't leave work and come to daycare. Graeme has good behavior with me and the deal is that he has to learn that he has to listen to them. If I come in, he is still listening to me, right?

I did have some wonderful friends who noticed that I was on the edge and they invited me and the kids to dinner. It was a great evening with some fellow Moms who care who helped problem solve.

Pizza Hut only charged me for me because they thought Lily Wen was 3 like Graeme. I tried to explain she was 5 and pay but they wouldn't have it. As long as she didn't hear that they thought she was three, I think we will be okay. Who knows what kind of tantrum that would bring?

The weekend just can't get here soon enough. I'm praying for good behavior from the wee ones and a dog hittin' free week for me....too late you say....well the rest of the week could improve.