Pink Thoughts

Alan came home from kindergarten today with a note showing he'd gotten a orange card which was a 10 minute timeout from playtime. (For those who don't know - a lot of kindergartens use a 4 color behavior system - green is good, yellow is a warning, orange is a timeout or loss of special treat, red is go to the principals office). What was odd was that the art teacher gave him the orange because he'd used after a bathroom word after he'd had a warning about being talkative (a yellow) earlier in the day by his regular teacher.

Before I'd gotten a chance to e-mail his teacher, she e-mailed me and said it was the child behind him who'd used the bad language, Alan had gotten it for being talkative again in art class. I had still taken Alan's TV privledge for tonight away, but I was glad he didn't use bad language - that's not his type of bad behavior.

We had back to school night last night. Both of us like his teacher a lot. Everyone I've talked to around town who had her for their child's kindergarten was very pleased with her - I can see why. We also saw the laptops the school had purchased for the kindergarteners/1st graders to use. They live on a cart and can be hooked up anywhere in the school as the school was set up for wireless. And the computer teacher seemed nice. I couldn't find the gym, art or music teachers - I was curious what to kindergartners do for gym?

Anyway, unlike a classmate from his daycare, Alan likes kindergarten a lot. He seems happy and well adjusted. And I'm happier now that the hot lunches are available (and he seems to like them also). I really hope we get a cafeteria before Alan leaves 8th grade.

Funny, how I swore we'd move before Alan started school when he was a baby and now I don't want to move until he finishes 8th grade - I'm still not-so-sure about the high school, but it's still 9 years off and a lot can change.

I'm waiting to see if an important software patch is going to be available to test tonight - client needs it to do month end processing - but it looks like I can sleep soundly at this point.

I'm still driving DH's old Geo Prizim back and forth to daycare as we haven't had a chance to look for a car. (He's taking mine on the 30 mile drive to his work). We saw a very low mileage Toyota Corolla 2005 model - on Craigslist which interested us. But after a few e-mails from the seller who wanted to have us send money, then he'd send the car (and claimed it was on an army base in Virgina - then we wrote we'd like to see it) we knew it was too good to be true. Fortunately for us nothing was lost except the time to e-mail, but these spammers can be dangerous.

Bush spoke about the economy tonight. I didn't bother watching. I think the caption on my icon is still true!