The other day I came upstairs and found George with my camera. I quickly took it away from him and checked to see what damage had been done. Well the little counter on the top said it was back at the start. This has happened before and I have still been able to take pictures. I thought nothing of it until a couple of days later when there was this incredible rainbow over Mt. Timpanogos and I wanted to get a picture of it. I grabbed my camera and went to click but it wouldn't. *sigh* I didn't have any other rolls of film in the house at the time so I just hit the rewind button to be extra sure and took it in to get developed. I told the lady that there were probably only going to be about 8 to 10 pictures on the roll but when I went to pick it up I was wrong. In among my pictures were ones taken by my fledgling photographer George. Wanna see what the world looks like to a two year old???
I think he did pretty darn good for a two year old. What do you think?
Okay we just got back from Math Night at Jona's school. This is what it said in a flyer that they sent home to the parents
"...we will be having a special night to introduce the math program that we will be using this year. A representative from our district and from Brigham Young University will be there to explain 'Investigations' to you. It is important(bold text added) for you to come so that you will know and be able to understand what your children will be doing in mathematics this year."
Important my eye! First of all this is an older school that has just been through a major remodel and addition of a/c. Unfortunately for us they decided to hold this meeting in the one room in the whole freaking building that has no a/c. So here are 200 + parents baking in the school gymnasium expecting to be told something important. Whatever. I am so insulted that they even asked us to come to this meeting. The first 10 minutes was taken up by introductions of people, that really didn't need to be done. Basically the whole meeting was something that they could have explained in a two page flyer and then said if you have any questions or would like to meet with the people on the board of this program we will be having a meeting for you to do so. I was talking to another parent and asking why they didn't have us just go to the classrooms and have the teachers explain it. Well I guess since this is a district program the district wanted to present it and they didn't feel that the teachers were properly prepared to present it to the parents. What the Heck!! If they aren't prepared to present it to the teachers are they prepared to present it to our children??? To me it just seemed like the district just wanted to take credit for this program and were on a power trip so they decided to hold 200+ parents hostage in a 100+ room for an hour. Ty and I left after 30 minutes.
I will give them this the program does look like it is promising but like I said before it wasn't something that couldn't have been explained in a flyer that they could send home. Oh yeah, Ty said that what it looked like to him was that someone had looked into the home schooling area and pulled ideas from there...I tend to agree with him on that. Okay, *taking a deep cleansing breath and moving on*. I plan on writing a letter to the district and to the principal to express my dismay at this situation. People high up can sometimes be so stupid.
I SO need to go and wash my dishes (they have been piling up for about three days now) but I keep finding stuff to do to put off doing them. I also have laundry to do and I just got a couple of buckets of tomato's from my grandma so that I can can some juice. They are sitting on my back step waiting for me to find some gumption.
My mom came and gave me a ride over to pick up my car this morning. Ty has started taking the bus again so he leaves it at sort of park and ride (that is actually in the parking lot of a Smith's) so I can go and pick it up if I need it. Well on the way over she tells me that my brother, Ben, has to go to jail for six days. He's been using again and guess where he is getting it? Yep from his wife. My mom thinks that she knows that if Ben gets clean he is going to leave her in the dust so she just keeps trying to pull him back down. I guess she even called my mom asking for money to pay some bills because her benefits (welfare) had been cut in half, when in actuality they hadn't been cut she had just said that so she could keep that money and spend it. I am so disgusted with her. My mom and dad are seriously financially strapped and yet she still goes to them and asks them for money. In all honesty she needs to be institutionalized to get the help that she really needs. She is that sick. But unfortunately that will never happen. She has her parents so wrapped around her finger that even if they did decide to put her away she would be able to whine and cry her way out of it. I can't even begin to tell you just how sick she is. I wish that there was some way that we could take Ben and put him in a rehab unit outside of Utah and not let miss head case know where he is until he is well. She uses his kids against him, she lies, she runs up credit card bills with out a second thought. I wish there was some way to help him but until he can lance the boil that is his wife from his life nothing is going to change.
You know something? Marriage is hard. Don't get me wrong. I adore my husband but there are times when things just go wrong. A day can start off where everything is normal and happy. And that same day winds up with you in your car at 2:30 in the morning in the parking lot of a Comfort Inn off the side of I-15 all alone and hoping that your cell phone will ring. Or you wake up the next morning and your wife and car are gone and you have no idea where they are.
As a couple Ty and I struggled last night and this morning. Actually it was much more than a struggle. It was the biggest (and scariest) disagreement that we have had in our eight years of marriage. There were things that both of us could have handled differently but we worked through it, mostly this morning after the wife and the car showed up at about 6:30. Tears were shed and feelings shared. There are still things that we need to work on and through but I feel closer to Ty and I love him with all my heart.
As I try to look into the future I would like to say that this will be the hardest thing that we will have to work through. But, since I cannot see into the future I can't say that for a certainty. This I do know, our journey yesterday into a dark place will make the possible (and most likely probable) future rough places easier for us to get through.
