I already have two strikes against the whole experience and its only been a week and 3 days. Yesterday, I didn't even show up to a parent teacher night to get some much needed info about the school year. I don't totally chalk it up to just bad parenting because I never got an e mail and I also didn't have a computer to check their "eco friendly" assessable online only newsletter since mine was at the Dr YET again!! But still not a valid excuse I am sure. However, I am so thankful for a good friend who picked up the paperwork for me and also dropped it off by our home.... Thank YOU for being a good parent and also thinking of me.
Ok strike 2 experience -- Today will forever be known as the day my child was denied lunch food or also, the day my bad parenting skills showed so terribly that I forgot to feed my child lunch. Ok, maybe not that dramatic but still sort of true. Let me explain...
Thursday Adalie had forgotten to bring her lunchbox home from school. Not too big of a deal, since they happened to be having an Adalie favorite of chicken fries on Friday. So I just reminded her to bring her lunchbox home from school and eat what the lunch lady would be serving. Also not huge deal since we are on the "food assistance" lunches for her, you know since we are underfunded in MED school. Don't judge =). Well it seems Adalie's lunchbox had still gotten taken to the lunch room and Adalie had forgotten she was supposed to eat the school lunch today. Upon realizing her mistake and yelling "HEY! There is nothing in my lunch box" she raised her hand and teacher helper came to assistance. here is how, I assume, from the bits and pieces from Adalie about how the conversation went
Adalie; "Hey teacher helper, there is no food in my lunch box" Teacher helper "Well you're just going to have to figure out what to do about it!'' End Scene. Here is how my mind heard the conversation going Adalie: very Oliver t\Twist like with dirt all over her face, holes in her shirt and a sunk in stomach "Teacher I am starving! I have no food and my mom doesn't even love me enough to send food with me to school. She is so mean, that she sent me with an empty lunchbox just to mock me" Teacher Helper: "Well, that's too bad little girl. I don't care that you don't have any food. You're going to have to figure it out on your own. There are some trash cans over there...maybe there is some old food in it for you to eat (and then proceeds to shove a handful on cupcakes and ding dongs in her mouth deliberately to show she is special and Adalie is NOT)" and end scene in Lydia's mind.
We asked Adalie what she did for lunch. She said her friend Anna gave her some of her lunch of carrots and pretzels and she wasn't even hungry. She seemed totally unfazed by the experience, which I am grateful for.
I am a bit of an over reactor at times, and I will admit I might have overreacted with this...I cried. I am crying still recounting her day when she went hungry. Its another notch to add to the "I sent her to kindergarten to early" tree. But, she didn't even know the difference and didn't even care. I don't even think she hates me for it. BUT now my fears have been heightened to the poor little girl who started too early and is neglected by her mother and everyone else in the world.... They won't even give her food.
But like I said. She was totally fine. And she has enough "fluff" to keep her from actually starving.
1 comment:
Haha.. you are so funny. If it makes you feel any better Ethan told the teacher one day that I forgot to send him lunch, even though I had, just because he wanted the hamburgers they were serving more than the PBJ I fixed him. So the teacher got him a meal even with no money on his account. I then got a letter saying that I had a negative balance of $2.25. That was on the 2nd day of school. Oh and one day Ethan didn't get off the bus like he usually does and wasn't even on there. They called out to all the bus drivers from their little walkie talkie to see if he was on someone elses bus...nope. no Ethan. After about 10 min of trying to find out where he was, they found him at the front office of the school just waiting for mommy to come pick him up. Nice, huh? Hope I made you feel a bit better :)
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