Out of My Mind

Tomorrow is a big day.  Both the hubby and myself have job interviews.  The hubby’s is a second interview with for a HR position, so we’re both really hoping they offer him a job.  It would pay slightly less than what he was making at HD, but the money he’d save on gas not having an hour commute each way nearly makes up for it.

I have an interview with Lowe’s.  It would be part-time, evening and weekends.  I’m not quite sure how I feel about the whole thing.  Other than 2 seasonal retail jobs, I haven’t worked since March of 2001.  That’s a long time to be a SAHM.  While I am a little excited about the idea of some actual adult socialization, I’m a little scared at the same time.  It’s been a long time.  I’ll post more after I see how the interview goes tomorrow.

When I picked Sebastian up at the bus stop yesterday, he was holding a big butterfly pen in his hand.  When I asked him where he got it, he immediately clammed up and just said that he thought I should take it.  Eventually, he told me that he had sneaked it from the library.  Since Wednesday is library day, I just assumed he grabbed it from the librarian’s counter or desk.  I told him that we would take it back tomorrow and he would have to apologize to the librarian.

When we got to school this morning, I realized that it wasn’t some grubby old pen, but one that was for sale as part of the book fair.  He gave it back to the librarian, told that he had taken it yesterday and that he was very sorry.  She gave him "the look" and then asked him if he knew that it was wrong to take things from a store.  When he said yes, she thanked him for being honest and bringing the pen back.  She also said that everybody makes mistakes sometimes but it is very important that they are honest and say that they are sorry. 

So, while it was rough on him to go in there and admit what he did, it could have been a lot worse.  I’m just glad she was pretty understanding about the whole thing.

The hubby and I were talking about it afterwards and came to realize a few things.  When I saw the bucket full of pens, there were other ones with things like lizards and such that he normally would have preferred.  As the hubby and I were talking it out this morning, we realized that he had probably taken it because it was a butterfly.  Butterflies were one of Grandma Ski’s favorite things and we always tried to bring her a little something with butterflies on it whenever we would visit her in the nursing home.  Since she has died, whenever he sees something with a butterfly, Seb always comments on how much Grandma would have liked it.  Butterflies have come to be very special to us.

Also, money has been very tight since we moved here.  And since hubby lost his job two weeks ago, Seb knows that money is tighter than ever.  I’m sure he figured if he asked for it, we would have said we don’t have the extra money for something like that and so he didn’t even bother to ask.  Not that that makes what he did right, but I can kind of see the reasoning behind it now. 

He just wanted something cool that reminded him of his grandma.  We talked to him last night about how stealing is wrong, and we’ll talk to him some more when he gets home.  But man.  This parenting stuff is hard.

Sebastian and I spent the last week at my parents while Bub was on Spring Break.  We went to my parent’s house for Easter and just stayed.  It was a nice visit.  I discovered a few things while we were there. 

Lesson numero uno.  There are some shows that are just not a great idea to watch while sitting next to your mother.  At least not my mother anyway.  One night, we watched The Wedding Crashers.  Although it was hilarious and we both laughed a lot, I know both our faces were really, really red at times.  The dining room table scene comes to mind.  And Tony Soprano getting a birthday blowjob from his wife is another.  No, Mom.  He is not having a heart attack.  Can we say uncomfortable?

Something I already knew is that I am weak, weak, weak when it comes to food while I am staying with them.  I gained three pounds back.  I had just gotten rid of the extra few pounds that I had gained from the last time we stayed with them.  But I just coud not resist all the soda, chips and Easter leftovers.  I’m pretty sure I ate an entire bag of caramel filled hershey kisses all by myself.  Bad, bad girl.

Something scary happened while we were there too.  Sebastian had an allergic reaction to something, although I’m not quite sure what.  On Monday, he broke out in hives.  We had gone to K-mart and Seb said that his foot was hurting.  He pulled down his sock and he had a couple hives on the back of his ankle.  I picked up some hydrocortizone ointment and we went home.  By the time we got there, his arms and legs were covered in welts.  It looked just like the time he had his first reaction to penicillin.  My poor little guy.  We thought that maybe it might have been from the gardening stuff right by the toys.  I’m allergic to fertilizer and react the same way.  I went back out and got some benedryl and he looked much better by the next morning.  By wednesday, he was all cleared up.  Then, on Thursday, we took him to the movies and mcdonalds, which is right by Kmart.  Same thing, except this time, he had a few hives on his face.  So we think that it is probably something in the air.  There are a lot of farms out there and it was really windy all week.  Maybe some of the stuff they were using was blowing in the air.  I don’t know.  So now we are just keeping an eye on him when he goes outside from now on.  I don’t seem to have a problem with my allergies like that unless I’m near my parent’s house.  Hopefully, he will be the same.

Last lesson learned: sleeping in a leather lazy boy for a week is not good for my back.  Youch!  I’m so glad to be home!

At the egg hunt on Saturday, they had a station set up where you could get your child fingerprinted and i.d. cards done.  We weighed and measured Sebastian and he is currently 48 inches and 45 pounds.  I got a little curious and went back to check his records from his last checkup, in May of 06.  At that point, he was 45.5 inches tall and weight 48.75 pounds.  That means little man has grown 2.5 inches, but lost nearly 4 pounds in the last year!  I knew he was looking taller and much thinner, but dang!  He is really starting to take after his Papa in the shape of his body.  When my parents got married, my dad was 6′4′’ and weighed between 140-150 lbs!  I don’t know if Seb will be quite that tall and skinny, but he certainly seems to be heading in that direction.

Here he is at the starting line

After he’d gotten a few eggs.  I’m not sure what the weird face was all about.

And running around the course