first day of school... first whine... first rant

It’s the first day of school today. Brandon was excited but that was in the past couple of days. For the past couple of days he was excited because he has new Pokemon sneakers. For the past couple of days he was thrilled to go to school because we bought him new school clothes. For the past couple of days he was ecstatic because he has a new Spiderman backpack. But today, he actually plans to stay in bed the whole day and play his video games. And that is not an option. I didn’t want to have a hard time so I called his Dad on his mobile phone [he was already on his way to work] and put him on speaker phone so he could talk him out of his bed and cooperate with me. It worked. It always does. Just a little persuasion, a dab of sweet talks and if that still won’t work… a bit of threatening and Brandon is good to go.

Brandon quickly dressed himself up [whew, finally he did everything himself this time]. He played his video games for a few minutes and then ran out of the house with his new backpack to wait for the bus. It did not take long before the school bus arrives and Brandon was off to school. Then I went for my morning run. Yes, it’s the first day of school and now I can have my regular morning run-walk-jog back again. Yipee!