Our student left this morning at 7:15am. 

He basically took one last photo with us, and got into the van that was waiting to take him to the airport.  Not even really a good bye.  It was a little weird, but understandable.  He’s been distancing himself for the last two weeks.  I think, so that it would be easier to leave when it was time. 

I have been somewhat counting down the days until he left, and yet now that he’s actually gone, it is a little bittersweet.  I am glad to not have to stress if my house is not spotless, or stress about what to make for dinner, or stress if the kids are squabbling or stress because he wanted clothes cleaned that he didn’t tell me about or stress if……..I think you get the picture.  I did a lot of stressing over the past 5 months, and I will be glad to not have to stress about those things over the summer.

I went out for a Mother’s Day Breakfast with my mom this morning.  Yah, I know it’s a little late, but usually we have all (her daughter’s – my sister’s) gone out together for Mother’s Day.  We have normally gone out for dinner and then coffee afterwards.  I just didn’t have the extra energy to try and figure out how to get everybody all together this year.  I suppose that my sister’s might be a little upset that I just went ahead with out them, but sometimes I feel that if I don’t do it, then it doesn’t get done.  I couldn’t deal with the pressure of that this year, and so – it’s done!  I’ve had breakfast with mom, and it was nice.

I picked up Jeremy from school, and we stopped past the neighborhood school to check it out.  Today was probably not the best day, but I am going to talk to the principal tomorrow at 9:30am.  I don’t really know what to say or to ask.  I don’t know what the differences are.  Things that seem so matter of fact to them are all so different and out of the ordinary to me.  I’m either pregnant, or seriously PMS’ing, and I am WAY over emotional.  I could cry at the drop of a hat.  That’s why I said that today was probably not the best day – aside from the fact that it;s the end of the school year, and the teachers and principal are extremely busy.

I’m glad that he didn’t have time today.  I’m trying not to to feel like I was a bother, as I think that’s just the hormones talking.  I think that I would have bawled all over him, and that’s just what he needed.  An overly emotional mom considering sending her children to their school……can you see him welcoming us with open arms…….Yah Right!

When we got home from the school, I went up to the kitchen and was puttering around when Jeremy came in talking about “the bird” and how he wanted to keep it.  I just chalked it up to his regular pretend play “stuff” and gave him an “uh-huh” and kept on going.  When he started closing the doors in the house I figured I’d better listen to him a little more carefully, and something was going on in his head.  He asked if we could get the bird food, and said that he wanted to keep it for a pet, “Pleeeeeeeeeease!!!”  I walked into the living room, and as a matter of fact, there was a little bird in our house sitting on top of our lamp.  Great!  Now what!  How do I catch the stupid thing and please, please don’t fly up into the skylight our we’ll never get you and you’ll die of heat stroke. 

It was a lot easier than I figured it would be.  He was trying to get out of our screened window and I was able to catch him very easily.  When I did catch him, J wanted to hold it, so I let him.

Voila,

 

 

Here is the photographic proof!  After we showed the bird to dad, we let him go – very reluctantly, I might add!  Hopefully that is about as exciting as it’ll get today.