Children are a Blessing

Children are a Blessing!! Children are a Blessing!! That is what I have to keep chanting in my head to keep from beating the snot out of Myles. This is actually a pretty funny story, but man, I could do with out all of the drama!

So today Myles went with his school to UVU on a field trip. Myles, being the class clown, made a poor attempt at making all of his classmates laugh. He walked right into a parking booth gate (you know that pole/arm thing the goes up and down). He thought is was rubber and would snap back and hit him and he could be all dramatic about it and everyone would laugh and say how funny he was. But it didn't exactly play out as planned. Instead the beam snaps clean off!! So I get a call that I must go to UVU immediately and deal with the Campus Police and see what charges and restitution there will be. Yes, I said charges!!! Well turns out the one he broke is actually for the Institute parking and so technically it was on Church property not school property (Well that took the wind out of the little police man's sails!) The Director of the UVU Institute, Bro. Lund, saw the situation for what it was... a poor choice, but still an accident. So no charges will be filed. When they are ready to repair the parking gate they will call Myles to come and help. Can you say DRAMA!!!

Poor Myles was really worked up about all this. He felt terrible and I think he learned a good lesson. But the entire time I am sitting there going between wanting to throttle him for being a goon and wanting to laugh at the idiocy of the entire situation.

So that was my morning. Driving from Lehi to Sugar House to Orem and then back to Sugar House. I had Myles come back to work with me for the day. He was very well behaved all day, that is how I know for sure this all really got to him :)

Mom is back in the Hospital. She is having a cyst drained on the back of her upper thigh. It has been growing at an extreme rate and causing her a world of discomfort. She went in this morning planning to have the surgery today. But too many emergency surgeries took priority and her surgery got bumped to tomorrow. The poor gal hasn't eaten since dinner yesterday and they wont let her eat still since they aren't sure what time her surgery will be at!! Myles marched to the nurses station and gave them what for and they promised to double check to see if she could eat anything. He then promised to smuggle food to Grandma from the vending machines, but she was a good little patient and refused the contraband! So hopefully by lunchtime tomorrow she will have less pain in her leg and a full tummy!

"Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow." -- Horace