rantings and ramblings

Okay, first of all, this almost-a-cold that has been lurking around in my head for a week needs to just make a decision about what it wants to do and do it. Then bugger off. My four year old told one of our cats to bugger off this morning so I can see that my hard work in teaching her is paying off. The older one got a pretty crappy (for her) report card so I am also feeling pretty chuffed that I was right all along and her teachers have started to call her lack of work and "I don't care" attitude with some bad grades. Now she is scared she will not be invited back to her program. Is it wrong to delight in someone else's defeat-especially your own child's?? It's just that I think sometimes you need them to learn the lesson the hard way. Then, my imagined lovely coffee meeting with my man turned into me wandering the streets of his route trying to find him, being late for an appointment because of said wanderings, then spending an hour in desperate and failing attempt at conversation only to be dumped with my little one for the evening becasue of said man's pissy mood. I did get to eat a big brownie that I made and read my book so all in all it wasn't a bad evening.