The Beginning

So, for the last few months I have had, in my possession, my three nephews. I am legally their guardian now for reasons I won't go into. But they are all mine, so to speak. Bought and paid for, as the saying goes. The only problem is I don't really know what the hell I'm doing.

I've been a part of their lives from the beginning, so their is no awkward "getting to know you" stage. But I did have to go from the fun loving "guncle" to the mean man who makes them go to bed at 9pm. Such is life. It's been bumpy, but it's coming together.

One of the main hurdles I have had to overcome is getting them set up for school. Three boys in three different schools (kindergarten, 4Th and 6Th if you want to keep count). The older of the three were already in the school district last year, so that lessened the paperwork, or so I thought. Last Friday was a meet the teachers day for all of them. It ran from 8am to noon. Not nearly enough time to comfortably shuffle three boys to as many schools with all the supplies I had at the time (that's a rant for later).

Each school had a stack of papers I had to work through before I could talk to the teachers about what they have been through over the summer. I felt like i was paving the road to hell in school letter head. That's what it felt like at least, the road to hell. Mississippi summer is upon us in a bad bad way. But alas, they were all registered, teachers meet, and I probably accidentally flipped off about 10 little kids while aiming at their parents. I sent my apologies, but that's about as far as my patients will take it (but i do have a vendetta against a certain green Nissan extera, more on that to come).

Well, that is all i have for the moment. More to come.