Tuesday was kind of a downer day for me personally because I binge ate not only once, but THREE times.
But on the upside, instead of yoga I chased around Ammon and Clarissa for an hour. It is soooooo cute to see Clarissa run away. And when I collapsed on the floor afterward, Ammon said concernedly, “Mama, are you dead? Get up, Mama!”
Another super stressful aspect of yesterday was that Lydia got a demerit in school. Her best friend was going through lockers trying to find white boards to write jokes on, and she told Lydia to help her. Lydia agreed and wrote a joke about a lost puppy on one of the boards.
One of the kids who got a message on her board started feeling scared and unsafe at school because she didn’t know who was going through her locker. Her parent called the principal, who found out by the handwriting that the culprits were Lydia and her best friend.
Lydia and her best friend admitted that they knew it was wrong to do this and that it was mean but they did it anyway. (At home, Lydia adamantly denied knowing it was mean because the joke she wrote was about a puppy.) Anyway, we were all shocked and upset that Lydia made other kids feel unsafe and scared at school. She will have no screen time at all until Christmas break, and all of the time she would have spent on the screen will now be repurposed as scripture study and also study of The Book of Virtues. At the end she will write me an essay on why it is important to choose the right and why we should be courageous with our friends.
Also Abe had to do tithing settlement until 9pm at the church, and he’s going on a trip Wednesday through Thursday, so we didn’t get to see him much. It was a day I’d be happy to forget, except for the fact that I just blogged about it and preserved it for the ages…
Mary had 50’s day at school. I can’t figure out how to do my new trick of embedding photos with these particular photos, so here they are in smaller form:
