Stand Off With The Sherrif

Well, it was Wednesday & my week hasn't exactly been the best one ever. I had been out of town for 3 days at my grandfathers funeral & all I wanted to do is get home to Nykile. I was rushing home & finally made it to Nykile's school. Almost there and in my impatient state I decide to by pass the traffic that is holding me up from making a right turn. I stop, weigh my options & decide to go for it in the median. Now at this particular intersection it is a common pratice. And besides all that, I'm not that far from where the road widens for drivers to make a legal right turn. Well as I start to pass the 1st car, pass the 2nd car & coming up on the 3 car on my left side then all the sudden Mr 3rd car decides to do the same thing I'm doing. Now mind you he's in a closer position to make his move more legal than mine. Well as I'm slaming on my breaks, come close to hitting him in the back of his truck, I notice that it's the county sherrif. Great! My luck! So now I'm sitting in the median, inches away from Mr. Sherrif. I'm just waiting for him to jump out & arrest me for some illegal traffic vilolation. Well, I'm still waiting & he's not moving & neither am I. So what seems like FOREVER but I'm sure that it was only 45-50 seconds, I'm waving him to go on, I'll wait. Nothing! He just sits there. So, ok I guess he wants me to go. Taking my cue, I gun it. Well I'm not sure why I thought that it would be that easy, but at the same time I go he goes. Are you kidding me?!?!? Now we are parallal to each other. He's still taking up some of the lane he was leaving & I'm getting pissed because he's giving me a case of road rage in a major way! Not to mention the nice ticket I'm sure that I will be getting. Another very long minute or so we are still just sitting there. Finally he goes! Gezz was that really that hard?
So did I get a ticket..........NO! After all that I would have at least wanted something for my effort in my standoff with the sherrif. Ok, well maybe not.

The School Has A Hospital!

Well we are through the 2nd week of Kindergarten & Nykile has been the the "hospital inside the school" 2 times already (aka the nurses office)

Now I'm not an overly protective mother or anything but I'm beginning to wonder if this whole school thing is really such a good idea. The 1st day of school I pick him up & he shows me his toes. I glance back & to try to keep calm & not drive off the road because all I can tell is that his 2 middle toes are about 3 sizes bigger than the rest of the toes. So I calmly ask what happended & he tells the story in true Nykile fashion. "Well me & this other little boy, I don't know his name but we were on the slide, going up not down it & a huge waspid flies at us & gets me in the middle of my toe & then the goes to get the other little boy, who I don't know his name. He gets stinged on the back."
At this point in the story I'm freaking out. What if he was alergic....Why didn't I get a call.....Why are there wasp or for that matter any other potential deadly creature near my child's school?
It was then that he brings me back to reality & tells me that he's ok & got to go the "hospital inside the school." Which seemed like an adventure to him.
All night I keep checking the toes to make sure that they didn't rot off or anything. I'm still concerned about no call from the school as I'm going through his back pack & there it is. A health note sent home explaining that he was checked into the nurses office for a bug bite, what was done about it & that he was promptly sent back to his classroom. Well that's all fine & good but I still would have liked a call. However, thinking about it what would I have done? Pulled him out of that horriable place where they allow huge bugs with big stingers sting my child? As much as I would have liked to I'm sure that my senses would have kicked in at some point during the drive to the school.

So that was the 1st visit now on the the 2nd. The 2nd week of school, I'm out catchin up my office mates & come back to my desk & check my messages. It's the assistant pricipal & she wanted me to know that Nykile is alright but there was an incident on the play ground that she wanted to explain personally to me?!?!?!? Instant panic mode! I immediatly call her back & she is on the phone. What...didn't she know that I would be freaking out. So little bit later, after I have gone through every possible thing that could go wrong on a play ground, she calls me back. Well, good news is that my imagination was a little over active. Story is that some other little boy "found" a bag & decided to fill it with rocks & I guess hit Nykile it the head & back with it. Nice! Grateful for her call I calm down. Apparenlty no harm done. Nurse gave him an ice pack for a few minutes & he ask to go back to class.

All in all no harm done & I really do like his school & the staff there. I just hope that this does not become a trend!