I start at Dell on Monday. Its supposed to be 6 am to 2:30 p.m but they are doing overtime right now so its 6 to 4:30 Monday through Saturday with Sunday possible. The biggest worry with Dell is that when you hit 1450 hours they lay you off and you have to wait 100 days before going back. They don't hire very often, but after 90 days if they start hiring, I can go online and apply.
I looked into an apartment in Gordonsville last week, I decided I don't want to move the kids out of county until school is out for the summer. Well, I thought I found a great deal a 3 bedroom 2 bath for $590.00 a month and with their move in special it would only be $375.00 to move in, plus the electric deposit which I thought would be $200.00 is actually $280.00! Yeah Yikes on the electric deposit! But when I went to look at it, they guy on the phone had told me wrong, the apartment is only $535.00!!! Can you believe that? So I managed to come up with the money and was supposed to be moving in Friday but they didn't get the approval yet! They are still waiting on the complex owner to say OK. Which sucks because now I am starting work Monday and whenever I can move I will be getting off after 10 hours and have to move and unpack! ugh! Stephen said he will help me move though, so that is a plus. I was just so disappointed to not be able to move this weekend.
Starla got into some trouble at school. She drew a picture that she said was a book cover for a story she was writing. The title was "Revenge" and the drawing was of stick figure standing there with a knife and another stick figure stuck on the knife. When her teacher 1st asked her about it Starla said it was just a book cover. Now I have talked to Starla before about drawing stuff like that at school. I know she likes scary stuff, she always has so I have never been concerned over her drawings. Unfortunately, the principal was very concerned and called in 2 social workers from the Central office. When they asked Starla about the drawing, she said it was her and the kid on the knife was a boy named Tyler, yes a kid in her class. You can only imagine how much worse this made things. If Starla was in high school, she would have been suspended for a year! If she had wrote the boys name on the paper, even being in 3rd grade, she would have been suspended for a year! Now the Social workers from the central office have told me that I HAVE to get Starla into counseling or its medical neglect, Which don't get me wrong, with everything going on I want her to go to counseling, but the thing is our insurance has a $400.00 deductible so the 1st 6 visits are going to be $65.00 each and I just don't have that kind of money right now. The school system is willing to pay for the 1st visit, but its up to Stephen and I after that. All of this with Starla really has me rethinking the move to Murfreesboro. I am afraid its going to be to hard on them to be that far from their dad. Plus this school is just amazing, seriously, if Starla was in a Rutherford county school and was caught with that drawing, she would have been suspended for a year regardless.
This is probably going to sound a little crazy. I have never had school clothes and play clothes for my kids, it was just to much, and there are to many of them. With putting a mixture of clothes in their closets they would try to wear stuff to school that was meant only for play, and stuff for play that should have been for school. So I stopped having both, once something was to the point where it couldn't be worn to school I would toss it. So they wear out their school clothes quicker cause they play in them to. Well, tonight I thought of a solution! They have a color system with their hangers, each kid has their own color, so they know what is theirs. This has worked for years. So I am going to try a color system with their clothes. I am going to use sharpies and put a colored dot on the tag. One color for school, one for play, one for nice(church, going somewhere dressy). That way I don't have to get rid of clothes when they are still good, but not good enough for school! Once it "downgrades" from school all I have to do is color over the 1st dot with black and then put the play clothes color on the tag! I think this just might work.
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