On Thursday night when we went to shrinking Craig said that Danielle's shrink would like for all of us to have a meeting together after our 50 minutes. Poor little Alex - her face totally fell because she thought it meant she'd have to wait in the waiting room by herself for even longer. I let her use my iPod when I'm with Craig and she does homework but I think she just feels left out anyway. So Al was happy to hear she'd be included in the talk afterwards.
Craig asked if I was going to punish Danielle for scaring us, and I laughed. "I'm not her mother." He gave me a funny look. "For all intents and purposes, yes, you are." Well somebody should have sent me a fucking memo. We went back and forth about that for a while. It was retarded and insulting to our mother and I got mad.
Then when we all met together Craig got Alex and all five of us talked. Danielle apologized for not being where she was supposed to be and making us worry and all that. And her shrink is going to talk with Aunt Elaine about getting Danielle a cell phone too, because she really does need one. Alex bitched at Dani - because of her, Alex missed her math test and then had to miss recess to take it later in the day and because she was scared she didn't do as well as she could have. Then Al cried and said she was really scared Dani had gotten lost and we wouldn't be able to find her. That made Danielle cry.
Turns out she did get a little lost and took a train in the wrong direction a couple of stops before realizing and getting off. When we were walking out Danielle asked me if she was in trouble. I fucking hate when Craig is right like that. So I told her she has to stay home all weekend so that we know for sure where she is. When I got home from work today, Dani had done two loads of laundry, opened all the mail and got the bills ready to be paid, and thrown out the garbage and was in total kiss-ass mode. I'm kinda impressed.
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