So here is my blog so we don't get asked a million questions and have to explain it a million times.
Tim failed his plumbing test.
There were three sections to the test..
The questions, mechanical shopwork and Two-Story Rough-in of Drains, Wastes and Vents.
Tim failed the questions and passed the other two parts. He failed the test questions by 6 points.
He has to wait 30 days before he can reapply to take it again, and after he applies it will probably be another month or two before he can take the test. He only has to re-do the questions and not the whole thing, so that's a plus.
I'm telling everyone so he won't have too, he is pretty upset/bummed/depressed about not passing it after he thought he did really good. If anyone wants to send him some words of encouragement I'm sure he would appreciate it and could use them.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
My failed attempt
So I failed my attempt at watching children.
I had posted my ad on craigslist looking for a child to watch, I got tons of responses but one stuck out to me. It was a mom of two, looking for someone to watch her children Monday,Wednesday, Thursday and Friday every week.
Her children were the EXACT same age as Mackenzie and Madison so I thought it would be perfect, I was wrong.
Her oldest daughter kept hitting my kids repeatedly. She would hit them in their mouths, and she even hit me. She would back-talk and just argue with Mackenzie about everything. It was ridiculous. When I asked her to sit in the corner, for time out, she told me no. I can't physically make this child sit in the corner.
Not just that but the younger daughter bites and bit Madison's hand when they were playing. Yesterday she cried for 2.5 hours straight, without reason.
It was just a bad situation. Mackenzie refuses to eat while they are here and she won't take her naps. 3 years old is too young to stop taking naps. (If you're not a parent please don't tell me that it's an okay age for them to stop, you honestly don't know.) Mackenzie also has started regressing on her potty training since the older girl wasn't potty trained. She has wet the bed two times in the past 3 days and has started 'messing' in her pants. (She has been perfectly potty trained for the past week and a half.)
I sat down with the mom yesterday and told her that I won't be able to watch them anymore but I will watch them up through next Friday to give her time to find a new sitter. She said she understood, but I could tell she was upset. I just told her I had to put my family first and it wasn't a good situation for my children to be in.
I had posted my ad on craigslist looking for a child to watch, I got tons of responses but one stuck out to me. It was a mom of two, looking for someone to watch her children Monday,Wednesday, Thursday and Friday every week.
Her children were the EXACT same age as Mackenzie and Madison so I thought it would be perfect, I was wrong.
Her oldest daughter kept hitting my kids repeatedly. She would hit them in their mouths, and she even hit me. She would back-talk and just argue with Mackenzie about everything. It was ridiculous. When I asked her to sit in the corner, for time out, she told me no. I can't physically make this child sit in the corner.
Not just that but the younger daughter bites and bit Madison's hand when they were playing. Yesterday she cried for 2.5 hours straight, without reason.
It was just a bad situation. Mackenzie refuses to eat while they are here and she won't take her naps. 3 years old is too young to stop taking naps. (If you're not a parent please don't tell me that it's an okay age for them to stop, you honestly don't know.) Mackenzie also has started regressing on her potty training since the older girl wasn't potty trained. She has wet the bed two times in the past 3 days and has started 'messing' in her pants. (She has been perfectly potty trained for the past week and a half.)
I sat down with the mom yesterday and told her that I won't be able to watch them anymore but I will watch them up through next Friday to give her time to find a new sitter. She said she understood, but I could tell she was upset. I just told her I had to put my family first and it wasn't a good situation for my children to be in.
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