Today was 12’s presentation for her Gifted class at school. I had to get up and take DH to work after he came home for lunch to give me the van, then an hour later, 12 got home followed by 6 and 10. I had to pick up 16 at school after choir practice and take her and 12 to the middle school across town to set up the display. Yes, I left 6 and 10 there by themselves. They often take off for hours at a time to a friend’s house. I figured they’d be ok at home. I told them to lock the door and all that. We got to the middle school took her stuff in and found out the basketball team would not give up the gym til 5pm. I had to leave 16 and 12 there with the stuff, then go get DH from work at 5. Well he was 20 minutes late getting out. Then he took me home since I had to work tonight and then he went on to the middle school to finish getting set up and to be there for the presentation. So, I walk up to the front door and I could smell the evidence. Something had burnt. They’re not to cook when an adult isn’t there to watch. Come to find out, 6 decided she could cook ramen noodles herself, so she never asked 10 (who was mesmerised by the TV and oblivious to everything). She put the noodles in the bowl forgot to add water and put it into the microwave for who knows how long. Finally one of them noticed the smoke and stopped it before it was a tragedy. My vintage green Tupperware bowl now has a big hole in the bottom of it with black bits of plastic hanging off. That was such a close one! OMG. I told them they can never be left alone again. Both are pretty torn up about it and no how serious it was. Neither one tried to hide anything.
I managed to get dinner made and got to work, then the family got home. Seems 12’s display went over well. It wasn’t as fancy as most, but the adults liked her costume and people loved the tortilla chips she’d made. (btw we will be toasting our own tortilla chips from now on, no more bags of them). She had taken off to get food for her best friend and left her booth for like 15 minutes so people were asking 16 about the stuff, but of course she was clueless. Overall 12 did well apparently.
Now the bad stuff.. DH has a CT scan on his kidneys tomorrow. They had found “something” on his kidneys when they did the ultrasound on his gall bladder in the hospital. Well, after 16 went out running all over the damn county Fri night with her friends and all the running we’ve done all over town for the kids play DH having to go to his mother’s house (an hour away) to feed her animals (Yes she’s in NJ again – OMG ) … we now have 1/4 tank of gas and the CT scan place is in the BigTown an hour away. We have zero money. I gave my last bit of cash to the girls for lunches and we’re overdrawn $148. I know I just got paid.. it’s gone. And then some. Oh, and DH has to go back to his mommy’s to feed her animals twice more this week. He doesn’t get paid til Fri night at 10:30pm-ish (direct deposit). So,.. what do we do? Well, looks like we get to ask 12 if we can borrow from her savings account AGAIN! Hell I still OWE her $40 from last week when I had to borrow! THIS HAS TO STOP!!!
MIL had given DH $60 to feed her animals. He blew it all on fast food. ALL OF IT in like 2 days. But he’s not the only one. Last Thursday (before I even got paid) we had to go to BigTown to see his Cardiologist, but we had no spending money. Instead of going and coming straight back home, I decided to check the balance on my credit card. A payment had gone thru and they raised my credit limit… so we got stuff we didn’t need and then bought dinner out for everyone instead of cooking at home or getting groceries. I kept telling DH we should at least use the card at a place that we could get groceries and maybe a deli box of chicken or something, but no he had his heart set on Long Johns. Well, I didn’t have enough on the card to get the big meal, so I got an 8 piece for like $17 and heated up a can of corn at home. SIGH I know I need to stick to my guns better. But I guess I keep hoping he’ll like magically grow up and be a responsible man who helps me be a parent and help run the house… I’m just an idiot sometimes.
Ok, so when do we get the money from 12? She has to go to school in the morning. The money is in her bank savings account. Do we make her late to school just to bum money off of her? SIGH. Probably.
As I said, this just has to stop…. oh and by the way, our dryer broke. Yeah. Life sucks.
