Thank you all so much, I'm really surprised at the response! When I typed all that out I thought "oh gosh, this is too long, no one is going to read it." But I went ahead and posted it anyway. Thanks for reading, and thanks for the responses, it gives me a totally different perspective on it! I didn't think it was a big deal, but reading the responses has made me rethink that, it was a more significant event than I realized.
As an update on that, D16 called me a couple of days after and said she and W had gotten in another big fight over it. She said W had tried to check the locator and it was turned off, W got mad and called D16's friend's mom again and raised a stink. I asked D16 how it got turned off and she said she didn't know. I told her it couldn't have turned off on it's own. She was on her way home so I told her we'd talk about it then.
When she got home she admitted that she did turn it off (I didn't beat her up over the lie, I was just glad she fessed up without any prodding from me), she wanted to test W to see if she would follow through on her promise to call first before checking the locator. W didn't. She checked it first, then tried to call D16 but D16 was bowling and didn't hear the phone. Then W called the other mom. I told D16 that I understood her frustration at W not following through on her promise, but she didn't follow through on hers either because she promised to leave the locator on. I told her to turn it back on and leave it on and let W do whatever she is going to do and just keep track of it, then in a couple of weeks if she feels W's behavior is inappropriate then we'll all sit down to discuss it again.
In other news, I went to another R/C plane fly-in last weekend near Houston. Good gosh it was hot there! It was 55 in the DFW area when I left and 97 at the fly-in! It was great seeing some old friends though, and I did get a lot of flying in. When I signed in the guy asked me if I was superstitious, I said "no" and he handed me my number- 13. I then went out to the flight line and promptly wrecked one of my planes, LOL! Wrecked another later in the day. Both are repairable, so not a big deal. But it left me wondering if there's something to this 13 business
I bought some Halloween craft kits at Michael's (on sale so I grabbed several)- they're foam haunted house kits. S10 built two of them, D16 built two and D18 wants to build one when she comes in this weekend. They're displayed on the mantle, they look so cool! They've got a lot of glittery stuff on them and the light that shines down on them really shows it off. The kids love doing stuff like that, I need to remember to keep them involved in artsy stuff.
