This morning, before 7AM, was absolutely crazy. I should've known it was a bad sign when I received a text at 6AM. It was one of our local teacher friends. She had read a facebook post about a teacher and was very concerned about the dark tone. One might wonder why she would text me. This happens to be one of Andrew's colleagues and is also someone I have worked with in my volunteer position. I agreed it was concerning and we were discussing how to proceed, using Andrew's experience as a union rep as our guide. At the same time, my friend with whom I work at my church job is also texting me because she can't get the donation statements to print correctly and is in a panic wanting to know when I can get to the church to help her. I also learned that Thomas hadn't been taking care of the cat boxes all week because he "didn't want to", and when I am informed him very calmly but firmly that he could do the job next week again, he began to throw a temper tantrum. He is entirely too old for that! I get to work this morning and run into Robert's girlfriend. She mentions that Robert sent her a text while he was taking a test yesterday. This of course means that he has installed a texting app on his school laptop and this probably explains why his grades suddenly started tanking again. I am a little sick to my stomach. While I know it's just one little thing, I can't help but feel it will start leading to bigger poor decisions again...that tends to be his pattern.
I am so grateful that we are going to get to go out with friends this evening and again tomorrow evening. It's been a rather grueling week, and we need some time to laugh and be distracted!
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