Leaks and Temper Tantrums

I don't know why it seems that the more I try to make a go of keeping a lid on some things they tend to get out anyways. This past week is a testament to that in several different forms.
I knew there was a crack in the ceiling at my swap meet, and I knew it was possible that it would rain soon since this is still hurricane season and we get the after effects here in this area. Not only did it rain, it began to leak in the crack in the middle of my store onto a consignee's products. So I frantically moved their things and did only what I thought was best and that was put a bucket under it til it stopped raining and we could get on the roof and find the leak. Well we can't find the leak. We have searched and searched and still don't know where the water is coming from. So til we find it I will be placing a bucket under the crack as right now hiring someone to fix that tiny crack is so NOT an option. I will figure it and just get back up there and find it.
Lili had a temper tantrum at dance class Monday. Ok what is that about and why? Why are you having a temper tantrum for no reason? She literally stood there the entire class and did nothing. So me Mamma got up and took her place and danced with her partner and made her stand there while she cried mortified that I took her place. Needless to say she went home and was sent straight to bed for being so out of control. No matter what she thinks she is GOING TO GO TO THIS CLASS period. Until she is 18 years old I will place in her something to help her develop grace and poise and love herself and learn to take that time for herself no matter where she is in life. I wanted to join her and do what MY MOM would have done to me if I had pulled that. I would have been picking my teeth up off the floor and searching aimlessly for my glasses that would have flown of my face for showing my ass in public as she called it. Me, I waited to we got home and she went to bed immediately. No special time for homework, or books or anything. That hurt her more than a back hand would have. Her attitude seems to be worsening like the leak in the ceiling as she goes to school each day and encounters children with interesting personalities. I'm not sure how to stop her from being influenced by her classmates and so like I am searching for the leak entry on the roof I am searching for the way into her to get back the Lili I am losing to her little colleagues. I guess I will figure that out too then.

Til Next Time

Mamma