Passports kid trouble and other musings

So firstly the passports arrived. Well all but hubbys renewel which is due today. So I get out the visa application to fill in passport numbers. I also put it all together with the evidencing. Discover we need certified copies. A quick post on PIO to discover what this is and how to get it. Phone round local solicitors. Am qouted between 5 and 25 quid a document! Some diffrence. Anyway am going down on Wednesday to get it done. Husband has got my police check thingy whatsit countersigned so that can go in the post today. Still no word from the MIL as to if she got our stat decs witnessed and posted. So thats the Aussie news. Oh and I have run out of ink again in the damn printer. What do I expect when I am forever printing stuff for this visa. More costs that I had not factored in.

Now onto the children. Eldest son is having troubles at school. Has been going on for ages which I guess explains his behaviour. We only found out third hand via a classmate. Sickening considering I have been asking his teacher for months. still I went in last week and had a good chat with the deputy who promised action.

Then last night I sent eldest to the shops for milk and bread with a tenner. What happened is still unclear as I have now heard 3 stories. The facts are one of 3 kids took the money off my son against his will. He then had to beg to get it back and was subjected to much teasing. He came home upset. I saw the kids outside my house and went to have a word. They did not deny it. Instead my sons old mate who is 9 and one of this group told me to F off and what the F was i going to fing do about it.....

I phoned the youth club the kids attend and asked them to deal with it. An hour later the girl from the group was at my door saying it wasnt R but her who had taken the money and she wasnt stealing it just playing. I don't know but if this is the case you would have thought r would have said so rather than swear and carry on. Also she was begging me not to speak to the school as she would get the blame..

I do not want to make things worse for D at school but I do want this sorting. Whatever the story I will not be spoken to like that by kids of 9. If my son used that language I would be mortified.

I refuse to let my bright little boy have his school life made a misery by these little monsters.