I promised I'd blog more often, so I will. Look at me! Two days in a row. Amazing.
Dylan's game was cancelled last night and I was only a little (a lot) excited. It was a 7:30 game. I hate those. They don't get over until after 9:30 and by then it is FREEEEEEEZING out. Maddie's tired. I'm tired. Dylan's tired. By the time we get home and settled down, it's after 10:30 before anyone gets to bed. That is senior suck-fest since we have to get up before 7:00 a.m. As you can tell, sleep is the number one priority here in our house. After food of course. Anyway, his game got rescheduled for May 23rd. Which happens to be the day Joel and I are going to the Mariner game. Great.
I never mentioned Dylan's grades. He got All As and a B+. Pretty awesome. Last time he had had 4 As and 2 Bs, so we were really happy with his progress.
Every year I promise the kids I will accompany ONE of their field trips. I am not, nor do I ever claim to be, an Alpha mom. I can't be the mom that goes on every field trip and goes to PTA meetings and helps out in the classrooms. By can't I mean, I don't want to. By don't want to, I mean I don't have the patience for kids other than my own. Don't laugh, sometimes I am patient with my own kids, like when they're sleeping or quietly reading a book. We have those moments. Anyway, we're nearing the end of the year and neither of the kids have had hardly any field trips. Now they both have one coming up. I signed up for Maddie's. It's a quick morning trip to the Auditorium to watch a play. Dylan's is an all day trip to the Seattle International District. Are you kidding me? I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I know, major mommy fail, but I told him that i promise to do something else with him. I don't know what yet, but it won't be that. I can't find the heart to be in charge of a group of 11/12yo kids for an entire day in downtown Seattle. I may try to sell one to a hobo for a penny. By sell I mean pay the hobo to take them away from me before I kill them.
We've had many issues with Maddie's name. She's Madelyn. We call her Maddie. She doesn't like to be called Madelyn because "that's what you call me when I'm in trouble." Fair enough. She once tried to change the spelling of Madelyn to Madylan. In both years of preschool her teachers called her Madelyn, which was confusing for her because she was Maddie 95% of the time for her first 3 years of life. In kindergarten she was Maddie because there was a Madelynn in her class. That was confusing too. This year, she chose to be Madelyn again. She is called Madelyn by everyone at school. She announced this morning that for 2nd grade she wants to be called "Madison." She doesn't understand that this isn't possible. But seriously, how could she not think this is possible? We've bounced from Maddie to Madelyn every year, what's a few more letters? I seriously regret ever giving this child a name that can be shortened. Or shortening it in the first place. She should have just been Madelyn and that's that.
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