Lately, The Menace has been at his ultimate worst!!! Just for kicks and giggles, I'm going to keep a list of this little butthead's shenanigans. You will see, just as I do, that this boy is a bad news bear. If I'd began this list in January, I'd be into 100 pages by now. JK.
What do I do???
Week 1
1. asked Tayshaun to get all of his things out of my car when we got home (which I do, EVERYTIME we get home), the next morning the backseat was full of Tayshaun's crap.
2. one of Tayshaun's chores is to put Diva in her kennel before we leave for the day. As we left for the day, I ALWAYS ask, "did you let Diva in her kennel?". And I got his usual reply, "Yup". When we got home, it'd looked like someone had broken into my house. Diva was the queen of the house for the day. Chewed up tissue, trash, toothbrushes, shoes all over the floor; day old doggie pellets on my clean towel on the bathroom floor; one of my favorite blankets was dragged downstairs and left by her kennel. Tayshaun got a week of no tv for this one....there will be no lying!!!! ....more than once a day, anyways.
3. Tayshaun stole 6 sticks of gum from one of my new packs and 4 sticks from another...all in the same evening. He had the decency to fold the foils and place SOME back in the box for me, though.
4. He had a disciplinary note sent home from his teacher for talking out of turn, not keeping his hands to himself, and being disruptive.
5. He was asked 4 times to put away his shoes. Then he was yelled at 2 more times before he actually put them away.
6. When asked if he had any toys in his backpack, he said no. Luckily I checked to find that some toy soldiers had sneaked their way in, apparently, when Tayshaun wasn't looking. WTH?
7. Tayshaun stole 2 more pieces of gum the very next day after getting grounded for a day for stealing gum, the day before.
And the week isn't over...the weekend has just begun. Oh, how I look forward to more pleasantries.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
2011
I'm such a loser. I haven't kept up my blog in ages. This year has been one of the busiest years of my life. I feel like I have a 100 things going on at the same time. I feel like I want to accomplish so much but I don't seem to be doing a good job of any of it. I'm not sure that I'm even accomplishing anything.
Let me back up a little. With this being Tayshaun's first year of school, I've taken on chauffeuring, schoolmarm, sports coach...and let's not forget cook, maid, playmate, and career girl.
With Tayshaun's school being so far from home, I lose about 2 hours a day just in travel time. Last fall, Tayshaun wanted to give karate a try so we began three evenings a week at the dojo. In early spring, I found an 8-week basketball camp in, no other than, Lehi which was another 1 hour evening + the 60 minute travel time driving from downtown to Lehi in the 5:00 traffic. Thank goodness Mom helped out by getting Tayshaun from school on those days. And about 2 weeks before basketball camp ended, baseball began. So on Mondays, I went from downtown, to Lehi, back to Hunter for baseball, and if baseball ended soon enough, a stop off in Taylorsville to end the day with karate.
Oops! What am I talking about? That didn't end the day, there. Because when we got home from all of these sporting activities, we'd be starving. While making and then eating dinner, Tayshaun would sound out his spelling words for the week. And after bathing and brushing our teeth, I gave an end-of-the-day spelling quiz which sometimes ended with a yelling match. Tayshaun has become a great speller this year. But when he's lazy, it's just a waste of my time and energy quizzing him. I had to give up the 20 minutes of reading to Tayshaun a night, otherwise, we would have been up until 11:30 instead of 10:30pm each night.
From 10:30-midnight, I am allowed some Yvette time. And then, back at it at 4:30am because besides getting ready for work/school in the morning, we scramble to find baseball gear, karate gear, and basketball gym clothes & basketball to begin the craziness all over again.
When basketball camp ended, that was just about the time that the upgrade at work began. With a skeleton crew, we're finding that each member of our team is putting in the work of 2+ people. So now my norm has been...all of the above AND working from home just to catch up. Four hours of sleep a night, just doesn't cutting it. And here I am on a Saturday morning (1:02AM), blogging. Sometimes Yvette time goes beyond midnight.
Want to hear something funny? NO vacation days until the upgrade ends. I have never in my life sold vacation instead of used it. I love my time off of work and I cherish my vacation days but when I don't get a chance to use it, I have the option to lose it or not earn anymore vacation until I use/sell some of it. So I have, I don't know, roughly 260 hours...what is what? 6-7 weeks of vacation just calling my name.
With Shalyse getting sick, I haven't been able to focus on what it will take me to commit to donating a body part to her because I can't take a frikkin' day off to get a mammogram, much less, clean my house. Mom, thank you, for cleaning up for me. I managed a Vegas weekend trip and when I returned home I wasn't able to unpack my suitcase even after being home two weeks. So Mom took pity on me and tidied up for me.
Blah blah blah blah blah waa waa waa waa waa! I know, I'm whining.
Poor Tayshaun! I've blown my cool more times than I'm able to count. Right in the middle of my busy year, Tayshaun decides to step up his mischieviousness to full-throttle mode. He's had a few reprimands at school for being disruptive in class. He's sometime uncooperative in baseball when he decides to express his strong-will. No, there are no "taking your base" in a baseball game when using a pitching machine. If you don't swing, you strike out. And throw the ball over the coaches head in practice isn't going to get you any brownie points, young man!!! Tayshaun has been grounded more days this year than not. I think he's watched tv for a total of approximately 20 days in all of 2011. That's probably not a bad thing, though.
In 2011, I had such great aspirations of mastering photography, learning photoshopping, making iMovies, organizing my office and maybe some closets, learning patient mothering, tutoring my kindergartener, exploring meditation, consistently visiting the gym BUT...I can't seem to find the time, or energy, or patience for any of my goals. So I manage to pull out a blog about once every other month.
In June, the upgrade should be complete, school and baseball will be done, and hello! vacation days. I think I'll even look forward to two months of recovery and bed rest...that is, if I'm a match for Shalyse.
Then, another challenge begins in 2011.
Let me back up a little. With this being Tayshaun's first year of school, I've taken on chauffeuring, schoolmarm, sports coach...and let's not forget cook, maid, playmate, and career girl.
With Tayshaun's school being so far from home, I lose about 2 hours a day just in travel time. Last fall, Tayshaun wanted to give karate a try so we began three evenings a week at the dojo. In early spring, I found an 8-week basketball camp in, no other than, Lehi which was another 1 hour evening + the 60 minute travel time driving from downtown to Lehi in the 5:00 traffic. Thank goodness Mom helped out by getting Tayshaun from school on those days. And about 2 weeks before basketball camp ended, baseball began. So on Mondays, I went from downtown, to Lehi, back to Hunter for baseball, and if baseball ended soon enough, a stop off in Taylorsville to end the day with karate.
Oops! What am I talking about? That didn't end the day, there. Because when we got home from all of these sporting activities, we'd be starving. While making and then eating dinner, Tayshaun would sound out his spelling words for the week. And after bathing and brushing our teeth, I gave an end-of-the-day spelling quiz which sometimes ended with a yelling match. Tayshaun has become a great speller this year. But when he's lazy, it's just a waste of my time and energy quizzing him. I had to give up the 20 minutes of reading to Tayshaun a night, otherwise, we would have been up until 11:30 instead of 10:30pm each night.
From 10:30-midnight, I am allowed some Yvette time. And then, back at it at 4:30am because besides getting ready for work/school in the morning, we scramble to find baseball gear, karate gear, and basketball gym clothes & basketball to begin the craziness all over again.
When basketball camp ended, that was just about the time that the upgrade at work began. With a skeleton crew, we're finding that each member of our team is putting in the work of 2+ people. So now my norm has been...all of the above AND working from home just to catch up. Four hours of sleep a night, just doesn't cutting it. And here I am on a Saturday morning (1:02AM), blogging. Sometimes Yvette time goes beyond midnight.
Want to hear something funny? NO vacation days until the upgrade ends. I have never in my life sold vacation instead of used it. I love my time off of work and I cherish my vacation days but when I don't get a chance to use it, I have the option to lose it or not earn anymore vacation until I use/sell some of it. So I have, I don't know, roughly 260 hours...what is what? 6-7 weeks of vacation just calling my name.
With Shalyse getting sick, I haven't been able to focus on what it will take me to commit to donating a body part to her because I can't take a frikkin' day off to get a mammogram, much less, clean my house. Mom, thank you, for cleaning up for me. I managed a Vegas weekend trip and when I returned home I wasn't able to unpack my suitcase even after being home two weeks. So Mom took pity on me and tidied up for me.
Blah blah blah blah blah waa waa waa waa waa! I know, I'm whining.
Poor Tayshaun! I've blown my cool more times than I'm able to count. Right in the middle of my busy year, Tayshaun decides to step up his mischieviousness to full-throttle mode. He's had a few reprimands at school for being disruptive in class. He's sometime uncooperative in baseball when he decides to express his strong-will. No, there are no "taking your base" in a baseball game when using a pitching machine. If you don't swing, you strike out. And throw the ball over the coaches head in practice isn't going to get you any brownie points, young man!!! Tayshaun has been grounded more days this year than not. I think he's watched tv for a total of approximately 20 days in all of 2011. That's probably not a bad thing, though.
In 2011, I had such great aspirations of mastering photography, learning photoshopping, making iMovies, organizing my office and maybe some closets, learning patient mothering, tutoring my kindergartener, exploring meditation, consistently visiting the gym BUT...I can't seem to find the time, or energy, or patience for any of my goals. So I manage to pull out a blog about once every other month.
In June, the upgrade should be complete, school and baseball will be done, and hello! vacation days. I think I'll even look forward to two months of recovery and bed rest...that is, if I'm a match for Shalyse.
Then, another challenge begins in 2011.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Honestly
What to do, What to do. Little Man got a sharp haircut as baseball season began. Sorry I forgot to take pics. He asked to have a baseball and #9 design on the back of his head. Looked really good and, needless to say, he got lots of attention from it, which always led into the baseball subject. He got questioned by strangers with...."so you play baseball, huh? What position do you play?" And Tayshaun's response was "Yea, I play shortstop." This went on and on until his design finally grew out. Well Tayshaun is playing in the 7-8 year old league - and being that he's 6 and is still a goof off in sports Well, excuses or not, he's definitely NOT playing shortstop. So whenever he would answer these questions with the same answer each time, I'd look at him to see if he was going to spy me out to bust his lie. But he never did. I started to wonder if he knew what position shortstop was.
But then one day, grandma missed his game so when she saw him she asked for an update of the game. This was his reply, " yea, we beat 'em!" She asked if he did well. His reply, "yea, I hit a home run and hit two other boys in." She asked him what position he played. And he replied his usual response, "shortstop".
Well this conversation went on while I wasn't there so when Mom saw me she told me she'd heard that Tayshaun hit a homerun and that their team had won. I started laughing. "Yea, right." In this level, the boys are hitting from a pitching machine. Tayshaun has hit the ball once this season and has mostly struck out. And they got slaughtered at the game. So i thought mom was joking or being sarcastic. But when she told me the story that Tayshaun told her I was like, "what?!". So I finally decided to confront him.
So I later asked Tayshaun, why did you tell grandma that you hit a homerun? He said, "I don't know." But his answer was nonchalant like what's the problem with that. I told him, "well you know that's a lie, right?" And he answer, "Yea". I told him "you're not supposed to lie Tayshaun. It's not a good habit." No one has asked him about baseball since. He has a normal haircut so I haven't hear him lie about baseball since then.
Funny thing, though. This week Denise and Elena found themselves with four free movie tickets but they wanted all five of them to be able to go. So Elena tells Denise, "well one of kids are just going to have to stay home. We only have four tickets." But then Denise thought/said "well maybe I could tell them at the ticket office that we lost one of the tickets on the way up to the theater." And hearing that, Tayshaun mumbled softly but audibly,"well now that would be lying."
Oh he knows what fibbing is....little stinker,
But then one day, grandma missed his game so when she saw him she asked for an update of the game. This was his reply, " yea, we beat 'em!" She asked if he did well. His reply, "yea, I hit a home run and hit two other boys in." She asked him what position he played. And he replied his usual response, "shortstop".
Well this conversation went on while I wasn't there so when Mom saw me she told me she'd heard that Tayshaun hit a homerun and that their team had won. I started laughing. "Yea, right." In this level, the boys are hitting from a pitching machine. Tayshaun has hit the ball once this season and has mostly struck out. And they got slaughtered at the game. So i thought mom was joking or being sarcastic. But when she told me the story that Tayshaun told her I was like, "what?!". So I finally decided to confront him.
So I later asked Tayshaun, why did you tell grandma that you hit a homerun? He said, "I don't know." But his answer was nonchalant like what's the problem with that. I told him, "well you know that's a lie, right?" And he answer, "Yea". I told him "you're not supposed to lie Tayshaun. It's not a good habit." No one has asked him about baseball since. He has a normal haircut so I haven't hear him lie about baseball since then.
Funny thing, though. This week Denise and Elena found themselves with four free movie tickets but they wanted all five of them to be able to go. So Elena tells Denise, "well one of kids are just going to have to stay home. We only have four tickets." But then Denise thought/said "well maybe I could tell them at the ticket office that we lost one of the tickets on the way up to the theater." And hearing that, Tayshaun mumbled softly but audibly,"well now that would be lying."
Oh he knows what fibbing is....little stinker,
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