If It's Not One Thing ...

Originally published at browneyedgirl.nu. You can comment here or there.

Jonathan's done with all of his screening sessions and "qualifies for services." They will work with him one time before summer. One time. And only because that is part of their policy. However, at this point I think we are forgoing Head Start because the local preschool teacher is anxious to work with him, and I have no possible way of getting him to Head Start by 8am when Tyler doesn't even get home until 8.

Peyton has a tooth and two more cutting through. This isn't teething, this is hell. Nothing makes him happy -- well, pulling my hair and gouging my eyes out, but still -- and he doesn't want to eat or sleep. Add to that his 6 month shots tomorrow, and I think I'm breaking out the bubble bath and alcohol early.

Yesterday I had my first "stranger shoot", and just about everything that could go wrong, did. First, they were horribly late. Then, the parents were too busy trying to set up shots and everything to even listen to what I was trying to set up. I'm all for giving them the shots they want, but there's a reason they came to me and wanted me to take the pictures, you know? Then the mom has the nerve to pull out her fucking camera, step in front of me, and start snapping pictures. And the I had them signing some copyright paperwork and then dad goes on about how he took their last pictures to Walmart to make copies and the mom is standing there pretending he didn't, just trying to get him to shut up. AND THEN I dropped my lens cap in the river from the bridge 40 feet in the air. And since I am not charging any kind of 'sitting fee' for these practice sessions, I'm about the $13 for my lens cap. I came home and cried. When I was done crying I opened my disks and cried some more because the pictures did not turn out very good at all. Because they were so late it was starting to get dark out. Plus, I got very few with all four kids looking at me at the same time. Because the dad was standing to the side trying to make them laugh. When I needed them looking at me. The mom mentioned something about doing pictures again in the fall (more gripes about this, basically they wanted me to just go into someone's property without getting permission) and I am definitely going to be BUSY when they call.

Yesterday was also Tyler's first softball tournament of the season. Which would have been fine, except that the second game was against my ex. Who is a jerk.

It just has not been my year.

Add to all of this the fact that it has been raining since Wednesday, and is supposed to continue raining until this coming Wednesday. See the pictures below? These are fields. Not ponds or lakes. Fields.