Cold, Snow, Crazy Child etc.

Hey Internet!

I posted this on my chat board but didn't bother to write it again so here goes:

I'm so glad this day is drawing to an end...

This day is so nightmarish I've been praying to wake up ALL DAY!

first Gummi and I had a HUGE fight (it's the time for one I suppose - we argue a lot in my family, and we've been good for so long...) but we're good now....

then I took Ragnar to private piano class, which was disasterous like you couldn't believe!

He wouldn't play no matter what, then the teacher just made me sit and play the variations for a bit while he stewed UNDER the grand piano I was playing on...

Then the half an hour was up and I got up (he didn't want to play at all!) but ohh no as soon as we mentioned going back to school and that the period was over he's all into playing - he started this screaming fit - you can picture this, the school is rather quiet, you can hear a couple of violins playing in the distance but no other sounds and then the blood curtling screams of my son!

then I CARRIED him out of the class room - SCREAMING and kicking and sat him down by our coats and there is no way for me to get close enough because of flailing limbs everywhere to get the kid into his gear and at that point the teachers have started to come to the hall to see what the comotion is! I was so mortified!

Well There was a woman there really nice woman(I think she might be the vice principle but I'm not sure), who started talking to him and actually managed to get him calm after a while and her daughter (who's also a teacher there) told me that it happened often while they were starting out - it sometimes is a battle of wills to get the child to understand the concept of the time limit - they want to play when they feel like it KWIM?

well I was no less mortified and we were late to boot! Ragnar is supposed to be back to school before 11:45 (class is over 11:30) if he's supposed to eat lunch there and we didn't make it on time so I couldn't drop him off until 1pm... which wasn't great cause I had class at 1pm... well we went to Amma's and had lunch there and then I drove him to school and went to school myself (only 20 minutes late do to much much snow on roads) then I had to leave an hour and a half early (when the teacher just started to explain Exel (computer class) - we had spen almost three hours revising Word!!!) but almost forgot and didn't get out of the class until 20 to four - not great when I had to drive to pick Ragnar up, then pick up Kap, then drop Kap off at Amma's and then drive to the music school AGAIN for group class by four!

needless to say I got stuck in the snow *insert a lot of TOS* and after a while of backwards and forwards jugging I finally got out of it (then I had to drive over a HUGE bump made mostly out of hardened snow! I heard the stomach of the car scrape on it!) and got to the music scool at 4:13....

not as late as I thought I would be but still...

well there Ragnar continued his act of being a little crazy and was soooooooo ill behaved I actually threatened to take him home! then he got better...

then back to Amma's where we had dinner and then a blizzard started which I had to first pack the kids in the car in (borrowed an extra coat from Amma's cause my leather jacket does not work to well in a blizzard) then rinse the snow from the windsheild and then I finally had to drive home in this terrible weather! I thank God I didn't get stuck cause the snow was so thick somewhere I had to plow through...

Did I mention I drive a frontwheel drive auto shift Corolla?!?!?!!!

Well Internet I'm going to let that do for now...later all!
-S.