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My Life in Bullets

October 4, 2006 |

For days and days I’ve been toying with the words for one of those lame “I know I haven’t posted much lately….” posts and it was like the words were sticking in my throat, or at the edge of my fingertips – whatever image works for you.

There really has been so much going on lately that I don’t even know where to start. I feel a bulleted list coming on my friends so sit back and enjoy the organization:

• My friend stopped babysitting my kids. It turned out to be a lot more involved than she thought so she gave her notice. We are still friends – who better than me to understand how overwhelming my children are. In case I didn’t post it earlier, she had already let the daycare kids go that she was still watching in my place and that didn’t help the stress level so this was the only reasonable answer for everyone.

• My stepdaughter has been filling in while we try to find a permanent solution. It has worked in a pinch but it is not an arrangement I can live with for the long term. I appreciate her help but she’s young and focused more on IM’ing her friends than paying attention to my girls. She also likes to be on the road a lot and I am not cool with my kids being strapped in car seats all the time.

• Because sd likes to be on the road all the time she has run her car into the ground. Killed it to be more precise. With a $650 bill to fix it and no money (surprise, surprise) to do so. So she’s been staying at our house during the week so she can watch the kids until she gets some money saved up for the repair bill (soon I hope – things are getting crowded in my basement)

• My 6 year old started first grade and has smoked the rest of her class with her language and math abilities. Example – we received a copy of her beginning of the year evaluation. The standard for a beginning first grader is to be able to read books on Level 3 or 4. My daughter can read a Level 16 book and comprehend what she is reading. She can read the words in books at a higher level with 100% accuracy but she starts to lose the meaning behind the words. Of course that’s with 4th or 5th grade level books. She also was tested on writing out the words she knows. They were asked to write as many words as they could in 10 minutes. The standard again is 4-14, my daughter wrote 47. She now gets her own special spelling lists and is meeting with members of the Educational Support team to make sure she continues to be challenged in school. I knew she was just like me ;)

• My 4 year old selectively mute child started preschool in the public EEE program and loves it. She apparently talks in class – not a lot but some. She still will not talk in public social situations. This has been particularly challenging when looking for child care because I’m so afraid of placing her anywhere for fear of something happening to her, someone hurting her (an adult) and she doesn’t say anything to me. I fear that children like her that are so quiet, are the ones typically preyed upon. It makes me sick to my stomach every time I think about it and I feel like I’m being overly picky out of paranoia. The one person I would trust implicitly, that has a daycare and whose daughter has been in my son’s class for 7 years, has no openings. I think I may have to make a go at having sd watch the girls until my daycare friend has room for them.

• Work continues to go well. It’s settling into routine and I have to admit I feel myself getting a little restless and bored with the repetition but I forge through and remember that nice paycheck at the end of the week that helps out my finances tremendously. The hectic schedule has triggered some Lyme related flares that I have been fighting as valiantly as I can. Some days they win – some days I do.

That’s it for me for now. So leave me a comment, let me know something that’s been going on in your life. I’ve missed you my blog friends. Catch me up.


Comments

5 Comments so far

  1. Northern Girl on October 4, 2006 3:23 pm

    Wondered if you were coming back. Take care…

  2. autumn on October 4, 2006 6:20 pm

    You’re alive!! *waves*

    Missed you too! Things are good here - super busy with work :)

  3. mrs. diamond on October 4, 2006 11:25 pm

    I’ve been wondering how you were doing! Missed you

  4. Amy on October 4, 2006 11:46 pm

    It’s good to see you and back, keep up with those updates :-)

  5. cassie-b on October 6, 2006 7:03 am

    Thanks for the catch-up. It’s hard to find appropriate day care for the children who mean so much to you. I watched a friend’s child for years because I was a stay at home mom, and she trusted me with her little boy. When I wanted to go to work, she compensated me with the difference of dollars I would bring home, because he was about to start school and she didn’t want to change day care.
    My oldest son was a first grade whiz also. He could read anything you put in front of him. Also, the comprehension fell off at a certain level. And - he was an A student all the way through school. I wish you the same luck.

    Have a great weekend. And good luck with the day care situation.

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