Melt Down Week- Part 1

Our first day of Kindergarten went pretty good except for some tears but our week went downhill from there. The second day of school Caleb was a nervous wreck! He was sobbing walking in and I had to peel him off my leg to leave. Abby hasn't had a nap in a couple days and was a whiny mess, not to mention she has no idea what to do now that her brothers aren't around to play with her all day.
When the boys got home from school they were sad because they didn't have a drink for lunch. They had taken their lunch and couldn't figure out how to get a milk so they didn't have a drink. Probably not a big deal but still its their first week of school and they have money on their cards. Couldn't someone help them!?
I have been trying to figure out daycare for Abby for 1-2 days a week with the days changing and I won't know the days until the Thursday before and did I mention we would prefer not to have to pay for days that I get put on call and we don't want to guarantee hours. Yep, surprisingly no takers, and I start my new job the 2d week of Sept. so its crunch time. I also need to figure out my schedule with the neighbor who is going to pick up the kids the days that I work.
So the week was pretty stressful trying to figure out our new schedule of going to bed early and getting up early. Did I mention I really don't like getting out of bed before 8am so 6:45 is coming pretty early. My lack of sleep may have contributed to my all out melt down, I'm not sure.
Our second week of school on Monday, the stress started again.  I sent cold lunch with the boys again and they weren't able to get milk again. (How hard can this really be!) But the worst part was that Caleb got pulled from his table to sit at the Nut Free table. We had talked to the teacher about his allergies and stressed that his reaction was not a life threatening one and we wanted him to be able to sit with Bryce. We had also informed the health office of this. Well the teacher doesn't go to lunch with them and communication was obviously not good among the other staff. Poor Caleb was a mess when I picked him up. He was crying and saying lunch went really bad. If you know Caleb at all you know how important food is to him, so when I unpacked his lunch and he hadn't eaten anything, I was furious. Yep, I was one of THOSE parents. The principal got a call and although I was very polite he got a piece of my mind about them not getting milks and having to sit at separate tables.
Tuesday, I was there for lunch. I picked up food to bring because I just wanted to see Caleb happy again. It was fun seeing them at recess and Abby loved feeling like a big girl. We headed into the cafeteria and someone was waiting for Bryce and Caleb specifically, at the door to show them how to get milk and then they were escorted inside and sat at the same table. The vice principal came up and apologized for splitting them up and said that everyone in the cafeteria has been informed to keep Bryce and Caleb together. I guess my phone call got my point across but still some kids don't have anyone to advocate for them and its too bad that it came to that.
So for now I think we have got lunch figured out. Whew, I never thought lunch would be something that was so hard to figure out.
I think I need 2 posts to write about melt down week. So to be continued......