and god bless the school bus drivers, right tiny tim?

today was the first day EVER that i put a sobbing, wailing reese on the bus. i hope her day improves from here, in her little 5-year-old mind i don't know if it could get worse.

she came home from school yesterday wearing an indian headband, which in kindergarten terms is a strip of white paper, decorated and stapled around a child's head, with a teeny neon feather glued at the rear. yesterday was also the school's thanksgiving meal and the kids got to be 'indians' during their meal. i asked if there were any pilgrims at the meal and reese said 'no' and then returned to her narration of their meal. i guess they don't learn about pilgrims til 1st grade then?

anyway, the headband was on her head almost continuously yesterday after she got home and little miss reese thought that she'd wear it back to school today. and me, being the wonderful mother i am, could not let her go to school looking like a dork (for lack of a better word! i wish i had taken a picture so you could see just how dorky --in a cute way!!--she looked in that headband). so i told her no, the headband needed to stay home today but she could wear it for supper tonight and even for our thanksgiving meal next thursday.

she didn't buy it.

cue instant tears and pity party. i didn't know this headband was tied into her popularity at school; she started going on about how no one will like her and no one will play with her. and everyone makes fun of her. and kids yell at her. and they blame her for everything.

sometimes i think we should have given her the middle name of drama. she has the personality of my husband but with the sudden sadness of my own school years. usually she's better after talking about it and after a kiss & hug from me but today wasn't one of those lucky days.

so that's why reese got to sit up front and spill her guts to the bus driver this morning. miss kathy is just an angel of a bus driver. i'm going to have to find something special for her christmas gift.

should i have called her teacher to let her know that reese was mopey? chances are that if i did that, reese would show up at school in a perfectly normal mood. so we'll let the school call me if there's any problems.
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i've broken out the christmas music. and i ordered rob's present. i hope he likes it. and just b/c i have my blog bookmarked on my computer, i won't be sharing that particular secret here. even as often as i shoo him off my computer, i still find open windows to ESPN when i hop on the laptop in the morning.
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elisha is teething or something. i thought we were done with this for a while but i guess not. she's almost 15 months old and has gotten 7 teeth in the last 3 months. no wonder i have these huge bags under my eyes!

since rob has been out at sea for the last 10 days, it's like musical beds around here overnight. elisha usually comes into my bed around 1am so i can get some sleep...cade fell asleep in my bed last night and elisha was so fussy that when she woke up in her crib i just took her out to the futon with me. pretty much, reese is the only one who stays in her bed all night and doesn't wake up at all.

i made the mistake of watching the 5th & 6th disc of heroes: season 1 last night. i couldn't stay awake for the final episode though. i went to bed at 1:30 and reese was up at 5:30. today will be painful...and full of suspense, i must know how the day after election day goes but i don't want the interruptions of the kids so i'll wait til after bedtime. only 11 hours left!

yet another reason 'dallas' is the shit.

has anyone else noticed what the most common prop is on TV? what almost every TV character is carrying around at some point during the show?

a coffeehouse-type disposable coffee cup. next time you watch a prime time show, keep track of how many coffee cups make their appearance. better yet, keep track of how many times the characters set down the cups and you hear a hollow 'thunk'. at least they could fill them up with water for a realistic sound when they're put down. drives me crazy.

if you're ever cruising the soapnet channel around 11am eastern, watch a bit of 'dallas.' those were the good old days when actors used real brown water in their coffee cups. there's a thousand reasons why 'dallas' rocks and that's just one of them.