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I go and pick up the kids from school this afternoon, and see that my daughter isn’t wearing her shoes. Which annoyed me slightly as she is been fighting off a little head cold, and walking around the school with no shoes on, on a cold and wet day isn’t my idea of helping her head cold.

Of course Mr 5 came running to the car, mum mum, Miss 9 hasn’t got her shoes on they are all wet. Why are they wet I ask, I dunno is all I got from him. So finally Miss 9 hobbles up to the car, shoes in hand, out stretched so as not to get them any where near her and I think oh no what is going on.

So she hopes into the car in a gruff, still not a good sign, she does up her seatbelt and folds her arms and looks out the window and doesn’t say a word. As this has been a sign in the past I have learnt to just let her go and she will talk when she is ready. I look at her and give her hug and the bottom lip starts to wobble, and the tears start to roll down the check.

Holding tighter I whisper to her do you want to talk about it, she says flat “No”. I look at her a little quizzical and she then says if I tell you, you are going to get angry at me. Now last time I looked in the mirror I didn’t look like Shrek so I didn’t think I was that much of an ogre. But I let it go for now. I turn to her and tell her when she is ready she can tell me. A few minutes down the road, she lets it spill.

Now I will just side step here for a minute to give you a little picture, where my kids go to school it is outer suburbia, lots of trees, dirt, and wide open spaces, even though we are only 35 mins from the CBD. Since we have had some rain the last few days, the dirt has now turned to mud, and as the school is new (rebuilt due to a fire), the children are encouraged to take off their shoes if they have mud or dirt on them. Which I get, however provide them with something to protect the shoes at the class room door, like a wooden shoe rack so that everyone can put there shoes in it or on it and protect them form the elements.

Now back to how the shoes got wet. It seems my daughter had to go to a different class room. And the only way to get to this class room is via the outside, which in turn meant through the mud. But when she gets to the door she has to go through she is told to take he shoes off and then preceded down a long passageway to get to the class room.

When she is down she heads back out to find no shoes, but what she does find is the vice principle with her shoes. It seems that some other child saw the shoes and decided that it would be fun to put them in the toilet. The boy’s toilet, and apparently some little prep child went and saw them in there and went and got the first man teacher he could find, which happens to be the vice principle. Needless to say I am not a happy camper about this. But what makes it even more frustrating is that this happen early on in the day and I wasn’t rang to be told to bring down some shoes or slippers or something, instead they let her walk around with no shoes on. Then the frustrating thing on top of all that was my daughter didn’t want to get in trouble with me so took her socks off too (as I have taught her not to walk around with just socks on, and she decided to listen to me for the first time). Hence to say, daughter has gone to bed drugged up on cold medicine and vapour rub all over her chest and feet, and mum is marching down to the office in the morning to find out what the h**l is going on.

NOT HAPPY JAN