Long night

Poor Dabber, she feels crummy. I only had to get up twice with her but once was at 5:30 so of course I'm still up. And bitchy so watch out. I'm annoyed with John, our little experiment got messed up because he didn't want to wake up early yesterday. He promised we'd get to it last night but we didn't. Maybe I'll go wake him up in a minute but I'm too cranky. So on Monday he went to play golf all afternoon and didn't get home until later than usual. Then the train fiasco kept him out until almost 9 or whatever. By the time he got home last night I was done, so I asked him to take Ella with him to the tire store but of course NOOOOOOO He can't take Ella to the tire store, what will he do with her there? Um. Bring some books? Stop for chicken nuggets and bring those? Talk to her? She's your fucking daughter, man, don't act like some sort of martyr because mama needs some time to herself, or rather herself and just one sick kid and not the entirely well and needing attention one. So pissed about this, because today he's going to play golf again and sticking me to either sit around at his parent's house until he gets there at whatever time after dinner and drinks and all that, or I could be the bad guy and make the kids come home after my lesson but then they don't get to hang out with Mimi. OH yeah, did I mention that instead of visiting my family on Monday he's playing golf?

Speaking of my family. If my mom tells me one more time that she thinks ella is somehow SLOW socially and that we should not start her in kindergarten until she is 6 I'm going to blow a gasket. I have no opinion about her decision to start me at 6, she's my mom and she made the best decision for me at that time and who am I to judge that? I don't remember having an opinion about it until I got to be an angsty teenager and had to wait an extra year to graduate and get the hell outta dodge. Current Kindergarten curruculum standards here in Illinois allow for a very wide range of skills to pass. Ella will be screened during this year at pre-school as well as next, as well as a pre-k screening to enroll. Just supposing that she is indeed not ready to go to kindergarten in 2 years then I might entertain the thought of waiting. But I'm not interested in discussing it now. And especially not in front of her!