Pet peeves

This morning brought cold weather again, yet no snow. Everyone should be back in school. "Should" being the word of the day. I totally understood the schools stand on sending everyone home to prevent the spread of flu. But, in the process, all my kiddos have been trapped in the house and the flu has spread. This morning, while all my children should be in school, six are home sick (Sethie home likely to end up sick at this point). Mercedez, Victoria, Ryan, Dan, Michael, and Samuel all sick in varying degrees. The five remaining Elementary school kiddos all were feeling "sick" as they left. Such a hard task in the mist of the flu to decide who is truly ill and who is not! Mary is feeling better after a week of being home, yet really still looked a bit tired in the eyes. She completed the entire TamiFlu and has played normally for the last two days. Rosie tried to be sick, as well as Isabella, they are the kind of kiddos you can smile at and they have a hard time holding the "sick" face! They are both at school. Zackery wanted to go...lol. But, Miss Tasha was out of the ball park silly. She wanted to stay home. The children who are home today were actually sick yesterday, all of them. Tasha was fine yesterday, fine this morning, fine period....until she realized others were staying home. Then the determination (as you can see in the picture I tagged of her) set in and she was staying. She couldn't find her shoes, she couldn't find her coat, she couldn't find a hairbrush, she couldn't find anything! So I helped her. On the way to the van she mumbled "you don't care about me at all". hummm Big words. I stopped her and explained all the things I had done for her this morning. The tub of "miracle" duracream in her hand to give to the school nurse for her face (and anyone else's). I do care. I would like to rattle off just how much I care, enough to send her to school so she does not actually get sick! But, I do not. I did send her to the back of the van (she was opening the door the the front seat! A placement "earned" in my house). An apology might help her to regain her front seat position. Trying to make me feel guilty is not a very good way to achieve anything. ... A major pet peeve of mine!

On a funnier pet peeve note..... Our school has parking lots to park in (imagine!) and a bus lane for drive through drop offs. You do not PARK in the bus lane. You can park 20 feet away in the parking lot. This bothers me greatly. I love my kids too. I care about them and their arrival at school, but if everyone would drive through I could stop at the door and watch them walk into the building. This morning I pulled my big 15 passenger van up behind a little cute car in the bus lane, let all my children out, and realized there was no one in the car! I tried to pull out around her....lol...as she was coming out. Needless to say, I was very close! Backed up and pulled VERY CLOSELY away. She stood and watched. I did not look over. Nor did I hit her car.

What is it about people that make them believe the signs "no parking" do not apply to them? It is ego? It is an emergency? I think it is simple. People in our society seem to just do what they wish. The very desire I work so hard to remove in my home, I see every day. I wonder if they realize the example the set? Do they every see it? Not likely. Guilt alone would keep me from stopping there. I have seen the handicap bus pull up and be displaced because of disrespectful parents. That is perhaps my peeve of the day. I have thought about printing fliers to place on the cars.....lol. But that would require me getting out of my van to place on the vehicles...haha...my whole peeve to begin with!