New 'do in Just in Case

I got my hair cut and colored today. I like the color.

We finished school with the kids today. Normally it’s a day with lots of tears, but I know that I’ll have the same kids next year, so it was just a lot of “see you next year!”.

Then tonight I found out something about one of our kids. He missed a week of school a month or so back. We were told he was sick. Well, it turns out that his parents went away (no idea where) and he had to take care of his 3 brothers (4, 6, and 8 years old). Then he got grounded because his grades were back during that week. I’m beyond incensed. We found out in a round about way. The boy goes to a neighbor’s house (another child in the 4th grade) every Sunday to go to church with them. That mom washes his clothes that he brings and makes sure he goes home with clean clothes. He told her and she told one of my coworkers. She’s going to tell our principal tomorrow and follow through with reporting it. I don’t know that they’ll do anything about it, but I hope they do. I can’t even imagine how hard it was for him. She asked him what they ate, and he told her anything he could put in a microwave. Just the thought of what could have happened....