February 7, 2009

I had to deal with some bullies today. Michaela and Caleb were outside this afternoon riding their bicycles when two older kids came by on their bicycles. They were riding real close to my kids, too close, and making them nervous. They were taunting them and chasing them up into our garage.

When I first heard commotion I thought it was Michaela and Caleb argueing. But, then I looked out the window and saw the other two boys. I watched the one who seemed to be the leader ride down and wait for Michaela to come back towards the house and block her way. He then rode behind her real close and chased her up into the garage. Our windows were open and I could here him tell the other boy to stay there and make sure my kids stayed in the garage and did not come out.

At this point I decided to make my presence known. I went outside. The leader was gone. I told the other boy to go home and stay away from my house. I also told him he needed to stop picking on my kids. Of course he denied it. I told him I'd heard him and his friend and been watching them.

A little while later they were back. I chased them off again and asked the leader if it made him feel like a big man to pick on little kids. I know this boy, sort of, because he used to go to Little Guppy. He's been gone from there a couple years now. I am guess he's about 14 which makes him twice Caleb's age.

Michael saw them again this evening and walked around the corner in the direction they keep disappearing towards. We think they must have been staying with grandparents because they went into a house that is diagnally in back of our house. The couple that live in that house are elderly.

I guess I'm going to hang out with my camera the next time my kids are outside on a nice Saturday. This is the second time this has happened. The last time was a Saturday, too. After I get some pictures, I'll take them to the grandparents' house.

It was a really nice day today. We broke a record with the temperature. It was up to 74 degrees. It was wonderful to have the windows open and be able to get outside some.

Michaela went over to Anikca's for a sleep over this evening around 5:00 pm. She was really excited. It's been a while since they had time like that together. I need to let Michaela have Anikca over sometime within the next month or so.

This evening Michael, Caleb and I wandered around Lowe's. We are starting to look at bathroom and kitchen stuff and flooring. We are hopefully going to do some major renovating around the house this year. We will also need a new front door and a new door leading out to the garage. I wish we had the money and room to extend the back of the house out some, but that's not in the cards.