Brigham + Fire Alarm = NOT GOOD!

So, last week was a terrible one for me. It really was. It is at the end of Sunday now and I am truly grateful that this week ended with General Conference. Though we were busy most of the day on Saturday, we still recorded the sessions and I am grateful that we live in a day that we can do just that. I am looking forward to this coming week and just calming down. My breaking point was Thursday, so when I got the news that Brigham had pulled a fire alarm at school on Friday, I couldn't help but be grateful that it happened on this day and not the day before. On Friday, it was funny......on Thursday, it may have set me over the edge!

Ok, so I have a wonderful friend who takes Levi and Brigham home from school everyday. I pick up Hyrum at Head Start at 2:20 p.m. Levi and Brigham's school is right next to it so if I were to wait in line, I would be there for almost an hour. This is what we did all last year, except I would find myself making excuses to pass the time with shopping and getting a "happy hour" drink at Sonic. My booty and stomach are not so thankful for this routine......Bless you Amanda Bishop for helping some extra pounds disappear this year!

So, Amanda pulls up with the boys and I walk over to her car. She timidly asks me, "How are you today?" She knew that I had had a very bad day, the day before. I told her that this day was so relaxing as I had finally put things in the right perspective. She kind off looked relieved as she told me that she had to tell me something. She proceeded to tell me that Brigham's teacher walked him out to her car (This is not usual. They have people hired to bring the kids out to the parents). I knew right then that something bad had happened! Apparently, he and his class were walking to the cafeteria for lunch when some of his classmates told him to pull the alarm. As I am writing this, I am still laughing.....I can't believe that kid sometimes! I mean, seriously, what did he expect?! As she is telling me this I am picturing all these firetrucks at the lower elementary and wondering why no one called me. Luckily, he was escorted to the principles office right away where they were able to tell the alarm system people (that called to check up on the school) that it was just a student and all was well. Amanda said that Brigham's teacher said that he was in the principles office for a long time and was pretty sure that he would NEVER do it again. It was funny telling my grandma this story because she got all defensive about Brigham getting in trouble. Don't get me wrong, she immediately laughed when I told her what he did but when I got to the part of him getting in trouble, she didn't care for that at all......Grandma, I love how much you love my boys! I on the other hand called Principle Trumbull right away and thanked her for making sure that he knew that what he had done was serious. She had him do laps for recess along with the scolding, I'm sure, he got. At the end of our conversation she told me that she appreciated me supporting her. After I got off the phone, I thought of the hard job she must have. I bet she gets phone calls all the time of parents complaining. I am just grateful that we live in the Grove School District. I really love the school here.

I later told David and of course he smirked and said that part of him wanted to give him an "atta boy" for having the guts to do it........this is why we have MOTHERS! That is all I have to say! He, of course, did not tell Brigham this.

When I talked to Brigham, of course he told me that others had told him to do it but I immediately told him that it didn't matter. That all through life you are going to have people "telling" you what do. Ultimately, all that matters is the choices we make. I was proud of him however, when he stopped me at one point in our conversation and asked me if he would get one of his privileges taken away. I told him that I didn't know because I hadn't talked to Daddy yet. He told me that he had already thought about it and that we could take his Nanny/Poppy night away from him (which was that night). You have to understand how much my boys look forward to these nights. So to have him suggest that was very impressive. I couldn't take that away from him but I was proud that he even suggested it.

All in all, I guess it could have been worse. At least the firetrucks didn't show up. The kids did file outside, however, just like they have practiced in times past and I guess later the whole second grade had an impromptu assembly on the importance of our fire alarms and only using them on emergencies......