Sad day

I had a sad evening. I have a lot on my mind. And, Austin is being bullied. It is hard to watch as a parent and I'm not sure what to do.

The Irresponsibility of Some

Today I walked up the stairs to David's apartment after work to pick up Austin. Austin opened the door without asking who was there. His dad was sleeping in the chair. He shook David's leg several times and said "my mom's here". David startled and asked "she's here?". Austin says, "yes, my mom's here." David looks right at me and asks, "is she here?". When I didn't respond he asked it again. I said "is who here" (being ignorant). So he falls back asleep. Austin had to go to the bathroom so as I am waiting I notice the smell of something burning. The oven light is on (I didn't see if a timer was set). Anyway Austin comes out and says "I'm leaving dad" and he says ok. I told him about the stove but he just fell back asleep. This was at 4:30. At 6:15 he knocks on the door at my house and said he had been trying to call. I bet he didn't know where Austin was. How IRRESPONSIBLE. He and Patty were sleeping. Anything could have happened with Austin. He could have just walked out. I am a little p.o.'d right now.

NRA

Why is it not suprising that Sarah Palin was a guest speaker at the NRA convention?

My shoes

My most comfortable pair of black shoes have been missing now for about a week. I was laying down this evening, reading a magazine, when Austin comes in with the shoes. He looks at me for a moment silently, then hands me the shoes. After another moment of silence...

Austin: Mom, I found your shoes in my shoe box
Me: What were they doing in your shoebox
Austin: I put them there
Me: Why
Austin: because you took my dollar last week and I was mad at you

Mind you that I took his dollar last week because he threw it at me when he was mad and it was returned to him two days later. My shoes have been held captive for about a week. Still it was hard not to laugh out loud. Only Austin would do something like this.

Austin's principal

Austin's principal died this afternoon. She had been diagnosed with a brain tumor in the fall and seemed to deteriorate quickly. While I tried to keep Austin realistic in that she might not get better, he seemed to hold on to hope that she would. Today, I went over to David's to tell Austin so he would not hear it at baseball practice tomorrow from one of his teammates. I found it awful to find the right words. He didn't cry or want to talk about it, but he hugged me for about two minutes straight. Bless his heart, I didn't want to leave him, but unfortunately I had to. Mrs. Nelson's birthday was Nov. 2 also and every year she would make a special trip to see him in class because it was her birthday too. She will be missed.