A long Wednesday

Well, Wednesdays are usually long, but today seemed especially long for me. This morning I took Kaitlyn on a field trip to the Stanley Whitman museum in Farmington with the FRC. It was very interesting seeing the toys from the 18th century and a house. If you ask Kaitlyn what she learned today she'll tell you that people went potty in a pot. Ewwwww, but she's right. At night instead of going out to the out house in the cold winter they had a pot under the bed that they would use to go to the bathroom. And in the morning the little girls in the house were the ones who had to empty that. Ewwww, just another reason why I'm glad for technology.

After the field trip I stopped at the pediatrician's office to drop off CJ's stool sample. I planned on just leaving it and running, but the doctor asked me to wait. They tested it right then and there and good news there is no blood in his stool. So he's handling the milk okay. So now we are trying reflux medication. She wrote him a prescription for Axid which he is to take twice a day. It's going to take a few weeks to see if it's working she said.

I ran out of the doctor's office and drove Kaitlyn to school. Dropped her off and went to leave to go get CJ so I could take him with me to babysit like I do every Wednesday. Joe had to be at work at 2 and I usually don't get back until about 2 so I couldn't leave CJ with him. As I was pulling out of the parking lot I got stopped by one of the grandparents in Kaitlyn's class. Now mind you she was outside with me waiting for the teacher to come out and didn't take that time to talk to me. I'm literally in my car and backed out of the parking spot on my way out and she stops me to talk about something PTA related from LAST year. Really? You need to stop me for this? Last year she had purchased some of the shirts for the kids for field day. She was to be reimbursed by the PTA for what she spent. Now the way I understand it she did receive a check for the shirts, but she had gotten bank fees because it took too long to reach last years officers to receive a check. And she apparently wants us to pay for her bank fees. She says she got the bank to knock off half the cost, but it's $175 still she wants us to pay. Ummmm, we're going to need proof of this. But in all honesty I'm feeling like we owe her nothing because it's her fault that she put out money that she didn't have. That's an awful lot of bank fees. This isn't the first time she brought this up. I had gotten a note from her back in October and called her back and left a message, but she never called back. It's been a year now. Isn't there going to be a point in time when you just have to kind of write it off? Plus, she wants to be reimbursed for an Avon fundraiser order from LAST year because she couldn't collect the money from someone who had purchased stuff from her. Ummmm, again how is this our problem? The orders were to be paid for in advance so it was her responsibility to collect from these people. If she didn't then that's her problem. Plus it's been over a year. Seems to me that she needs some money so now she's trying to get it wherever she can. I told her I needed to discuss this with my other officers. I didn't have time to get into it with her. But I guess she has spoken to the principal already and he's telling her we'll pay her. Okay, seriously too many cooks in the kitchen here. He has no right telling people how the PTA is going to spend the money that we raise. Does he really want us to take away from the students to pay for someone else's mistakes? I can't justify these expenses. I don't know what last years officers told this person about reimbursing for the t-shirts, but I'm sure they didn't tell her to over draw her account to buy them.

So after listening to her complain about all of this stuff I told her I'd look into it and get back to her and then left. Ran home and grabbed CJ and went to babysit. Babysat for an hour and then went to pick up CJ's prescription. Got to come home after that for 10 minutes before I had to go back out and pick up the girls from school. Got the girls, came home, fed CJ, and put him down for a nap. Then finally I got a chance to eat something. Oh yeah it was 4 p.m. and I hadn't eaten all day long. Geee, who would have thought I needed to eat too?

I was beat and so didn't want to cook dinner tonight. Joe was working late so wouldn't be eating with us so bad mommy took the girls to McDonald's for an oh so healthy dinner. I desperately need to do some laundry. I have another long day to come tomorrow too. I can't wait for Saturday to get here. Maybe then I'll finally get a chance to relax a little.